Change nginx part of compose yml so i can use another web service on

juniorserveradm

I have created a well running mailcow mail server on my ubuntu 22.04 VDS server, with docker-compose.

But i want to run another little own developed flask python web-api on a random port.

Than i will forward a subdomain to my VDS (With an A record from Cloudflare) /and point it to that Web Api i wrote with python. For example we can assume my web api running on 0.0.0.0:8089.

How can i conigure nginx part so i can do that?

esackbauer

Not sure what you want to do, mailcow is not binding to port 8089, so you can run any other container on that VDS binding to it.
Or do you want to “abuse” mailcows nginx to be reverse proxy for your web api? That won’t work.

juniorserveradm

esackbauer

Actually because i want to use HTTPS instead of http so i need to listen for port 80, 443 and reverse proxy it to my web api

Mailcow also listen port 80 and 443 so i want to edit nginx of mailcow. Or can i use my own apache or nginx instead of mailcow nginx and how?

esackbauer

juniorserveradm
you should use your own reverse proxy, for both mailcow and your web api.
https://docs.mailcow.email/post_installation/reverse-proxy/r_p/

juniorserveradm

esackbauer

what about the SSL Cert
SSLCertificateFile MAILCOW_PATH/data/assets/ssl/cert.pem
SSLCertificateKeyFile MAILCOW_PATH/data/assets/ssl/key.pem

i do not have a mailcow_path cause i use dockerized build even if i run my own apache i do not have those files

esackbauer

juniorserveradm i do not have a mailcow_path

that path is where you installed mailcow on your VPS. With my installation it is /opt/mailcow_dockerized
You need to adapt your apache config accordingly.
Those files are there once you ran the generate_config.sh script, and the certificates will be renewed automatically by mailcow