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Hi,
i tried this by myself with help of chat gpt but i did not manage to run it properly. So can somebody help me to run a docker compose container of Pi-hole with unbound and Nginx on the same VM so that Nginx manage the ports for Pi-Hole with unbound and i can reach both over same IP-Adress for Browser GUI.
Every help is welcome.
Best regards
You will need to share more details. We discussed nginx and other reverse proxies like Traefik on the forum and it would be hard to write a general and yet complete answer to everyone. If you can share what you tried so far and what the result was, what error message you got, you can get more replies.
I managed to get Nginx proxy Manager running with docker compose and following instruction:
nano config.json
{
“database”: {
“engine”: “mysql”,
“host”: “db”,
“name”: “npm”,
“user”: “npm”,
“password”: “npm”,
“port”: 3306
}
}
nano docker-compose.yml
version: “3”
services:
app:
image: jc21/nginx-proxy-manager:latest
restart: always
ports:
- 80:80
- 81:81
- 443:443
volumes:
- ./config.json:/app/config/production.json
- ./data:/data
- ./letsencrypt:/etc/letsencrypt
depends_on:
- db
environment:
# if you want pretty colors in your docker logs:
- FORCE_COLOR=1
db:
image: mariadb:latest
restart: always
environment:
MYSQL_ROOT_PASSWORD: “npm”
MYSQL_DATABASE: “npm”
MYSQL_USER: “npm”
MYSQL_PASSWORD: “npm”
volumes:
- ./data/mysql:/var/lib/mysql
docker-compose up -d
Also i have a runnig Pi-hole with unbound on my system. But i didnßt get to manage running botch on the same VM cause of port problems.
I tried to set up botch docker compose conatiner manually and had problems that i only can load one gui cause of the Port Problems. Also i had the problem when i could see the Nginx GUI i couldn Login. I could see the Login Screen and paste my Login Data in, but i couldn´t login.
Chat gpt suggested me to set all in one .yml:
services:
pihole:
image: pihole/pihole:latest
environment:
- ServerIP=DEINE_VM_IP
restart: unless-stopped
ports:
- “53:53/tcp”
- “53:53/udp”
- “80:80/tcp”
- “443:443/tcp”
volumes:
- ‘./etc-pihole/:/etc/pihole/’
- ‘./etc-dnsmasq.d/:/etc/dnsmasq.d/’
unbound:
image: mvance/unbound:latest
restart: unless-stopped
ports:
- “127.0.0.1:5335:53/udp”
nginxproxymanager:
image: jlesage/nginx-proxy-manager:latest
restart: unless-stopped
ports:
- “81:81/tcp”
- “443:443/tcp”
- “444:444/tcp”
volumes:
- ‘./config:/config’
But as acpected i get here Port a port issue. And if i remeber right nginx didn´t work as well. I guess what i don´t get is how i set the ports rigth so that nginx and pi-hole can work on the same vm.
Chat Gpt suggest me something like this:
version: ‘3’
services:
nginx-proxy-manager:
image: jlesage/nginx-proxy-manager
ports:
- 80:80
- 81:81
- 443:443
environment:
- LETSENCRYPT_ACME_EMAIL=your_email@example.com
volumes:
- ./data:/config
pihole:
image: pihole/pihole
ports:
- 8080:80
- 53:53/tcp
- 53:53/udp
environment:
- ServerIP=your_server_ip
- TZ=your_timezone
- WEBPASSWORD=your_password
dns:
- 127.0.0.1
- 1.1.1.1
but mostly nginx doesn´t work with this conf. And to set it up with my installation guide i failed. I hope this helps you guys to help me not getting insane 
I will try to get myself into portainer: Maybe this will help me.
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