MailCow in Production Datacenter
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Not to say that it is bad that it has its own Nginx, but that seems like just extra complexity that doesn't need to be there, that adds more places for things to break.
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@scottalanmiller
I am running it on rented servers and I understand why you want it to be behind you proxy@scottalanmiller said in MailCow in Production Datacenter:
but that seems like just extra complexity that doesn't need to be there, that adds more places for things to break.
How would you serve the PHP code of the control panel if you are not including a web server within mailcow?
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@dave_c said in MailCow in Production Datacenter:
How would you serve the PHP code of the control panel if you are not including a web server within mailcow?
Same way that MailCow does... run it in its own instance that only does that. I don't know what they use, but I would guess Apache. The Docker instance in MailCow that runs the PHP code for the web server is called sogo-mailcow. The Nginx instance in MailCow that we are talking about is called nginx-mailcow and is a reverse proxy that does not run PHP.
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@dave_c said in MailCow in Production Datacenter:
I am running it on rented servers and I understand why you want it to be behind you proxy
If they just had it as an "on/off" option, I think including it is great. But it seems like bypassing it is cumbersome and might break future updates. That's a big problem here, sure I can get in under the hood and try to alter things, but will that work reliably as they deploy anew?
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What does your current docker-compose.yml file look like?
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@stacksofplates said in MailCow in Production Datacenter:
What does your current docker-compose.yml file look like?
I'll let you know once it installs. I've already started a fresh ground-up install.
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@Curtis said in MailCow in Production Datacenter:
@stacksofplates @scottalanmiller
https://github.com/mailcow/mailcow-dockerized/blob/master/docker-compose.yml
Yeah I know there's a default, I didn't know if he had changed it at all.
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@stacksofplates said in MailCow in Production Datacenter:
@Curtis said in MailCow in Production Datacenter:
@stacksofplates @scottalanmiller
https://github.com/mailcow/mailcow-dockerized/blob/master/docker-compose.yml
Yeah I know there's a default, I didn't know if he had changed it at all.
I had not, the default didn't work so I wasn't looking to modify it yet.
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@scottalanmiller said in MailCow in Production Datacenter:
@stacksofplates said in MailCow in Production Datacenter:
@Curtis said in MailCow in Production Datacenter:
@stacksofplates @scottalanmiller
https://github.com/mailcow/mailcow-dockerized/blob/master/docker-compose.yml
Yeah I know there's a default, I didn't know if he had changed it at all.
I had not, the default didn't work so I wasn't looking to modify it yet.
ok. Let me spin up a system with docker and compose. I've been using podman so I don't have the tools on my laptop.
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I was able to proxy through NGINX after running
docker-compose up -d. I didn't use HTTPS because I'm lazy but it passed HTTP fine. -
It's just a simple config to test (again because I'm lazy):
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Great, glad to hear that that works. I'll be testing it more once I see if it comes up at all. The first time it didn't at all, so you are two steps farther than we got
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@scottalanmiller said in MailCow in Production Datacenter:
Great, glad to hear that that works. I'll be testing it more once I see if it comes up at all. The first time it didn't at all, so you are two steps farther than we got
Let me know if you have issues and I'll make a video for you
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I have been running Mailcow for a little while, been testing and playing about with it. I'm quite impressed how it's all been put together. I would love to hear how many mailboxes people are running this in production.
Not using a reverse proxy on mine though.
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@scottalanmiller said in MailCow in Production Datacenter:
Great, glad to hear that that works. I'll be testing it more once I see if it comes up at all. The first time it didn't at all, so you are two steps farther than we got
Been a while, and now it is a different project. This time for a customer. But we have MailCow up and running now and behind an Nginx proxy in a datacenter. Working great so far.
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@scottalanmiller said in MailCow in Production Datacenter:
@scottalanmiller said in MailCow in Production Datacenter:
Great, glad to hear that that works. I'll be testing it more once I see if it comes up at all. The first time it didn't at all, so you are two steps farther than we got
Been a while, and now it is a different project. This time for a customer. But we have MailCow up and running now and behind an Nginx proxy in a datacenter. Working great so far.
Using Docker?
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@FATeknollogee said in MailCow in Production Datacenter:
@scottalanmiller said in MailCow in Production Datacenter:
@scottalanmiller said in MailCow in Production Datacenter:
Great, glad to hear that that works. I'll be testing it more once I see if it comes up at all. The first time it didn't at all, so you are two steps farther than we got
Been a while, and now it is a different project. This time for a customer. But we have MailCow up and running now and behind an Nginx proxy in a datacenter. Working great so far.
Using Docker?
Is there any other way? MailCow appears to be 100% dependent on Docker.
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@scottalanmiller said in MailCow in Production Datacenter:
@FATeknollogee said in MailCow in Production Datacenter:
@scottalanmiller said in MailCow in Production Datacenter:
@scottalanmiller said in MailCow in Production Datacenter:
Great, glad to hear that that works. I'll be testing it more once I see if it comes up at all. The first time it didn't at all, so you are two steps farther than we got
Been a while, and now it is a different project. This time for a customer. But we have MailCow up and running now and behind an Nginx proxy in a datacenter. Working great so far.
Using Docker?
Is there any other way? MailCow appears to be 100% dependent on Docker.
I don't know of any other way which is why I asked!
Previously, we had that forum discussion & I thought the general consensus was Docker for this use case wasn't a great idea? -
@scottalanmiller said in MailCow in Production Datacenter:
@scottalanmiller said in MailCow in Production Datacenter:
Great, glad to hear that that works. I'll be testing it more once I see if it comes up at all. The first time it didn't at all, so you are two steps farther than we got
Been a while, and now it is a different project. This time for a customer. But we have MailCow up and running now and behind an Nginx proxy in a datacenter. Working great so far.
Did you have any issues using Nginx at all to start with?
