I'm trying to set up local DNS using Pi-hole.
I have successfully set up Pi-hole and added a local DNS record local.com
, pointing it to the server running the Pi-hole container 192.168.0.101
.
Then I set up the Audiobookshelf container using the guide from Audiobookshelf, where I set up Nginx Proxy Manager with the following compose file:
services:
nginx-proxy-manager:
image: docker.io/jc21/nginx-proxy-manager:latest
container_name: nginx-proxy-manager
ports:
- 80:80
- 443:443
- 81:81
volumes:
- ./data:/data
- ./letsencrypt:/etc/letsencrypt
restart: unless-stopped
And Audiobookshelf with the following compose file:
services:
audiobookshelf:
image: ghcr.io/advplyr/audiobookshelf:latest
container_name: audiobookshelf
volumes:
- ./audiobooks:/audiobooks
- ./podcasts:/podcasts
- ./metadata:/metadata
- ./config:/config
restart: unless-stopped
networks:
nginx:
name: nginx-proxy-manager_default
external: true
I did not specify a port, hoping that Nginx could manage it.
Then I set up Nginx Proxy Manager following the guide from Audiobookshelf by adding a proxy host. ~~Trying to resolve audiobookshelf.local.com
to~~ I simply followed the guide and wasn’t sure why the “Forward Hostname / IP” should be the container name audiobookshelf
.
I also created a self-signed certificate.
But I cannot access https://audiobookshelf.local.com/
or http://audiobookshelf.local.com/
(it automatically forwards to HTTPS).
I tried adding a local DNS record:
audiobookshelf.local.com
→ 192.168.0.101
in Pi-hole.
Now, when I access audiobookshelf.local.com
, the site shows:
502 Bad Gateway – openresty
I think the problem lies in the Docker network setup. I suspect the Audiobookshelf Docker container is not communicating with Nginx.
Would appreciate any help!
Based on you screenshot from the NPM Dashboard there seems to be something wrong. In the setup window you show that you forward the traffic with http and port 80, in the dashboard screenshot you forward the traffic with https and port 80.
Just skip http and self signed certificates all together. Modern Browsers make it a pain to use non https sites. A simple domain setup with dns acme challenge is a little bit of a hassle but worth the hour(s) of invested time. Especially with npm were it is a set and forget option.
Does pihole support wildcard dns entries yet? To my knowledge the gui only supports single entries so that you have to enter every subdomain manually in pihole that you want to have forwarded. Workaround would be to use a dnsmasq config file or use something else like addguard.
no I don't think pi-hole supports wild card dns, how do you deal with this issue? do you simply use addguard?
I switched to adguard, yes. But you can just give pi-hole a dnsmasq config file. The underlying dns server Pi-Hole uses does support those.
Just mount the file via a docker volume. I will have to look up the exact paths. Config would look like
thanks a lot