I think you meant “lookup” with internet down. I think that will not work. At least, if it was looked up before it remains in the clients cache (ttl). But the ip resolved to, your wan ip is down then…
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So the Letsencrypt documentation says that fullchain.pem contains both the server’s public cert and the chain.
Also:
“Under normal circumstances, certificates issued by Let’s Encrypt will come from “R3”, an RSA intermediate.”
This is an up-to-date system, so as you’ve explained it the root should reside in the OS’s certificate store.
I thought the redirect from AdGuard was sufficient for the split-brain part but I guess I’m missing this part:
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A link to where it has been migrated to would be helpfull
Hi there, dunno whether this place is still active, but I am still having this problem. I gave up the /homeassistant location-based hacks as they never worked for me, and I also don’t have a subdomain.
So, I only want then that on my root, i.e., mydomain.ddns.net/, the home assistant will come up and I can access it through Nginx from outside of home network.
I followed the descriptions here…actually, I tried all of them 
This is my current nginx config
set $upstream_proto http;
set $upstream_proto_ssl https;
set $ha_ip 127.0.0.1;
set $ha_port 8123;
location / {
# used to play around with the /homeassistant trials
# sub_filter 'src=/static/' 'src=/ha/static/';
# sub_filter 'src=/hacs-files/' 'src=/ha/hacs-files/';
# sub_filter_once off;
proxy_set_header Host $host;
proxy_http_version 1.1;
proxy_set_header X-Real-IP $remote_addr;
proxy_set_header X-Forwarded-For $proxy_add_x_forwarded_for;
proxy_set_header Upgrade $http_upgrade;
proxy_set_header X-Forwarded-Proto $scheme;
proxy_pass $upstream_proto://$ha_ip:$ha_port;
proxy_redirect $upstream_proto:// $upstream_proto_ssl://;
access_log on;
access_log /var/log/nginx/access_ha.log;
error_log on;
error_log /var/log/nginx/error_ha.log;
}
location /api/websocket {
proxy_pass $upstream_proto://$ha_ip:$ha_port/api/websocket;
proxy_set_header X-Forwarded-For $proxy_add_x_forwarded_for;
proxy_set_header Host $host;
proxy_set_header X-Real-IP $remote_addr;
proxy_set_header X-Forwarded-Proto $scheme;
proxy_http_version 1.1;
#don't have the other port 80 based generic https redirection, so I have this redirect for other locations and applications too
proxy_redirect $upstream_proto:// $upstream_proto_ssl://;
}
Everything almost works I can access my homeassistant login screen from outside, but when I log in, it says it cannot connect.
The web developer firefox plugin shows this:
I just keep spinning my head around this…why is this so difficult with Nginx if no special thing is needed. No location, no path rewrites, no subdomain…just make the locally available HA exposed via NGINX.
Ohhh…and I have necessary edits in the configuration.yaml:
http:
use_x_forwarded_for: true
trusted_proxies:
- 172.30.1.0/24 <--this is my docker network where all other containers are, including homeassistant docker
- 127.0.0.1 <-- localhost where the homeassistant container's port 8123 is forwarded
- 192.168.22.0/24 <-- my home network: the outside connection come from 192.168.22.1, i.e., from the router
Thanks, any comment is welcome 
update (maybe irrelevant):
If I wait for it to try to reconnect, then it does not find the auth token.
I tried setting that path as well into my nginx conf, but did not help at all. So, I removed it from the above configuration.
Here is my functioning nginx config based on swag from unraid.
homeasssistant.subdomain.conf
server {
listen 443 ssl;
listen [::]:443 ssl;
server_name homeassistant.*;
include /config/nginx/ssl.conf;
client_max_body_size 0;
location / {
include /config/nginx/proxy.conf;
include /config/nginx/resolver.conf;
set $upstream_app 192.168.1.25;
set $upstream_port 8123;
set $upstream_proto http;
proxy_pass $upstream_proto://$upstream_app:$upstream_port;
}
location ~ ^/(api|local|media)/ {
include /config/nginx/proxy.conf;
include /config/nginx/resolver.conf;
set $upstream_app 192.168.1.25;
set $upstream_port 8123;
set $upstream_proto http;
proxy_pass $upstream_proto://$upstream_app:$upstream_port;
}
}
proxy.conf
## Version 2021/10/26 - Changelog: https://github.com/linuxserver/docker-swag/commits/master/root/defaults/proxy.conf
# Timeout if the real server is dead
proxy_next_upstream error timeout invalid_header http_500 http_502 http_503;
# Proxy Connection Settings
proxy_buffer_size 128k;
proxy_buffers 4 256k;
proxy_busy_buffers_size 256k;
proxy_connect_timeout 240;
proxy_headers_hash_bucket_size 128;
proxy_headers_hash_max_size 1024;
proxy_http_version 1.1;
proxy_read_timeout 240;
proxy_redirect http:// $scheme://;
proxy_send_timeout 240;
# Proxy Cache and Cookie Settings
proxy_cache_bypass $cookie_session;
proxy_no_cache $cookie_session;
# Proxy Header Settings
proxy_set_header Connection $connection_upgrade;
proxy_set_header Early-Data $ssl_early_data;
proxy_set_header Host $host;
proxy_set_header Proxy "";
proxy_set_header Upgrade $http_upgrade;
proxy_set_header X-Forwarded-For $proxy_add_x_forwarded_for;
proxy_set_header X-Forwarded-Host $host;
proxy_set_header X-Forwarded-Proto https;
proxy_set_header X-Forwarded-Ssl on;
proxy_set_header X-Real-IP $remote_addr;
resolver.conf
resolver 127.0.0.11 valid=30s;
configuration.yaml
configuration.yaml
http:
use_x_forwarded_for: true
trusted_proxies:
- 172.16.0.0/12 <--- docker network
- 192.168.1.3 <-- IP of my unraid server on which my swag/nginx are hosted (i run HOAS on a seperate device so my HA IP is not included in this list.
It still does not work. There were some issues with your config, so I appended some extra to that, but eventually, I still have the same error with unable to fetch
GET wss://mydomain.ddns.net/api/websocket
for all the paths, I amended your config to this by appending hacsfiles,auth,frontend_latest,static:
set $upstream_proto http;
set $upstream_proto_ssl https;
set $ha_ip 127.0.0.1;
set $ha_port 8123;
...
location ~ ^/(api|local|media|hacsfiles|auth|frontend_latest|static)/ {
include /etc/nginx/proxy.conf;
include /etc/nginx/resolver.conf;
proxy_pass $upstream_proto://$ha_ip:$ha_port;
}
And I removed this line from your proxy.conf
#proxy_set_header Connection $connection_upgrade;
Because nginx was complaining about it:
nginx: [emerg] unknown "connection_upgrade" variable
btw. what is the resolver for? is that the local stub DNS resolver?
Okay, I made it working.
Googled more and found that for my error, that specific Connection upgrade part is really necessary for the nginx config.
But, as mentioned before, nginx was complaining about that.
The solution was to hardcode it without variables. So, replace
proxy_set_header Connection $connection_upgrade;
to this:
proxy_set_header Connection "upgrade";
And now it is working!
Thank you SgtBatten for your help.
Ahh yeah sorry that variable must be set elsewhere in my config.
Glad you worked it out.
I could also use some assistance with this.
Summary
I use a Raspberry Pi as a reverse proxy on my home network. I would like to be able to go to https://ha.MyURL1.com and access my Home Assistant dashboard. However, when I try, I get a Home Assistant page that reads “Unable to connect to Home Assistant,” and my NGINX error log shows several errors, mostly reading “connect() failed (111: Connection refused) while connecting to upstream”.
Details
On my network, I have one Raspberry Pi acting as a reverse proxy for three separate machines, including my Home Assistant (running on an ODROID-N2+). I’ve used the “Virtual Servers” setting of my router to route all requests on ports 443 and 80 to the Raspberry Pi.
Here is the /etc/nginx/sites-available/ha.MyURL1.com.conf file on the Raspberry Pi:
map $http_upgrade $connection_upgrade {
default upgrade;
'' close;
}
server {
# Update this line to be your domain
server_name ha.MyURL1.com;
# Ensure these lines point to your SSL certificate and key
ssl_certificate <snip>/fullchain.pem;
ssl_certificate_key <snip>/privkey.pem;
# Use these lines instead if you created a self-signed certificate
# ssl_certificate /etc/nginx/ssl/cert.pem;
# ssl_certificate_key /etc/nginx/ssl/key.pem;
# Ensure this line points to your dhparams file
ssl_dhparam /etc/letsencrypt/ssl-dhparams.pem;
# These shouldn't need to be changed
listen [::]:443 ssl default_server ipv6only=off; # if your nginx version is >= 1.9.5 you can also add the "http2" flag here
add_header Strict-Transport-Security "max-age=31536000; includeSubdomains";
# ssl on; # Uncomment if you are using nginx < 1.15.0
ssl_protocols TLSv1.2;
ssl_ciphers "EECDH+AESGCM:EDH+AESGCM:AES256+EECDH:AES256+EDH:!aNULL:!eNULL:!EXPORT:!DES:!MD5:!PSK:!RC4";
ssl_prefer_server_ciphers on;
ssl_session_cache shared:SSL:10m;
proxy_buffering off;
location / {
proxy_pass https://<HA machine's internal IP>:8123;
proxy_set_header Host $host;
proxy_redirect http:// https://;
proxy_http_version 1.1;
proxy_set_header X-Forwarded-For $proxy_add_x_forwarded_for;
proxy_set_header Upgrade $http_upgrade;
proxy_set_header Connection $connection_upgrade;
}
}
I have added this to the end of my configuration.yaml file for Home Assistant:
http:
# For extra security set this to only accept connections on localhost if NGINX is on the same machine
# Uncommenting this will mean that you can only reach Home Assistant using the proxy, not directly via IP from other clients.
# server_host: 127.0.0.1
use_x_forwarded_for: true
# You must set the trusted proxy IP address so that Home Assistant will properly accept connections
# Set this to your NGINX machine IP, or localhost if hosted on the same machine.
trusted_proxies: <Raspberry Pi proxy IP>
Steps to reproduce
- In a browser, go to
http://ha.MyURL1.com, orhttps://ha.MyURL1.com.
Expected results
https://ha.MyURL1.com loads my Home Assistant dashboard.
Encountered results
The browser redirects to https://ha.MyURL1.com/lovelace and displays a Home Assistant error which reads “Unable to connect to Home Assistant.”
When the timeout concludes, I am sent to a Cloudflare error page reporting an error 502: Bad gateway.
In my NGINX error.log, I see several entries that correspond with the timing of the request:
[…] connect() failed (111: Connection refused) while connecting to upstream […]
Additionally, earlier in the log (but not corresponding to the latest request), I see this:
2022/10/23 11:53:24 [emerg] 492#492: bind() to [::]:443 failed (98: Address already in use)
2022/10/23 11:53:24 [emerg] 492#492: bind() to [::]:443 failed (98: Address already in use)
2022/10/23 11:53:24 [emerg] 492#492: bind() to [::]:443 failed (98: Address already in use)
2022/10/23 11:53:24 [emerg] 492#492: bind() to [::]:443 failed (98: Address already in use)
2022/10/23 11:53:24 [emerg] 492#492: bind() to [::]:443 failed (98: Address already in use)
2022/10/23 11:53:24 [emerg] 492#492: still could not bind()
Extra details
I can, of course, still access HA locally by going to http://homeassistant.local:8123.
Could any HA/NGINX wizards help me sort this out? Thank you. 
You can try adding dns rewrite in adguard so that your domain is pointing to your ha ip.
I found my way to a solution. I’ll spare you the full writeup, but here’s the meat of it:
Looking at that error, it appeared NGINX had a problem with how the configuration was trying to use port 443. (Or something; I don’t really understand what was going on, but I recognized 443.) When I looked at my conf file again, I saw this section:
# These shouldn't need to be changed
listen [::]:443 ssl default_server ipv6only=off; # if your nginx version is >= 1.9.5 you can also add the "http2" flag here
add_header Strict-Transport-Security "max-age=31536000; includeSubdomains";
# ssl on; # Uncomment if you are using nginx < 1.15.0
ssl_protocols TLSv1.2;
ssl_ciphers "EECDH+AESGCM:EDH+AESGCM:AES256+EECDH:AES256+EDH:!aNULL:!eNULL:!EXPORT:!DES:!MD5:!PSK:!RC4";
ssl_prefer_server_ciphers on;
ssl_session_cache shared:SSL:10m;
I had other NGINX configuration files on the same device that had set SSL settings properly—I used Certbot to configure them, with no issue. I had also previously used certbot to generate certificates for this domain. So I commented out the block above (which I had copied from HA support resources) and instead re-added these lines:
server {
server_name ha.MyURL1.com
# [existing stuff]
listen 443 ssl; # managed by Certbot
ssl_certificate /etc/letsencrypt/live/<snip>/fullchain.pem; # managed by Certbot
ssl_certificate_key /etc/letsencrypt/live/<snip>/privkey.pem; # managed by Certbot
include /etc/letsencrypt/options-ssl-nginx.conf; # managed by Certbot
ssl_dhparam /etc/letsencrypt/ssl-dhparams.pem; # managed by Certbot
}
server {
if ($host = ha.MyURL1.com) {
return 301 https://$host$request_uri;
} # managed by Certbot
server_name ha.MyURL1.com;
listen 80;
return 404; # managed by Certbot
}
This, combined with changing proxy_pass to use http:// instead of https://, worked!
So, my solution was:
- Replacing the block pertaining to SSL with the stuff Certbot had automatically generated, and which I knew worked for other domains, and
- Changing the
proxy_passto usehttp://instead ofhttps://.
Hi everyone, I was facing to the same issue. I paste your my SIMPLE nginx configuration, working on the HA 2022.11.4
It use HTTPS between clients on a particular domain, then HTTP between nginx and HomeAssistant
server {
listen 443 ssl;
ssl_certificate /path_to_cert.pem;
ssl_certificate_key /path_to_key.pem;
server_name home.domain.net;
location / {
proxy_set_header Host $host;
proxy_redirect http:// https://;
proxy_http_version 1.1;
proxy_set_header X-Forwarded-For $proxy_add_x_forwarded_for;
proxy_set_header Upgrade $http_upgrade;
proxy_set_header Connection "Upgrade"; #syntax change here
proxy_pass http://<ip_ha>:8123;
}
#default conf for error pages, not important here
error_page 500 502 503 504 /50x.html;
location = /50x.html {
root /usr/share/nginx/html;
}
}
If it could help someone
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Hello all,
if you are using caprover, I suggest using the following reverse proxy docker container which includes the necessary stuff for serving home assistant through the proxy
GitHub - blackwiz4rd/nginx-reverse-proxy: A very simple reverse proxy using nginx and Docker.
In caprover do the following:
- In HTTP settings, enable: Force HTTPS by redirecting all HTTP traffic to HTTPS
- In HTTP settings, enable: Websocket Support
- Enable HTTPS
- Set Environment Variables in App Configs:
UPSTREAM_HTTP_ADDRESS = "http://hassio-ip:hassio-port"
Make sure to allow trusted proxy:
http:
# when using proxy from caprover
use_x_forwarded_for: true
trusted_proxies:
- 172.19.0.0/24
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The provided GitHub is 4 years old… Why should that be used instead of the official, standard jc21/nginx-proxy-manager or nginx that are regularly updated? From my understanding the SSL system has changed in the last year & there was a major change a couple years ago, both after that one was last updated.
I don’t use Caprover, not even sure what is is, but is there something that it needs that the offical images do not have?
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Guys, just for info. There is all information in this thread to make it work. My problem was that the response time was very slow if I go via my domain and reverse proxy. But the problem was in my ASUS RT-AX56U router. I do all port forwarding and everything worked, except for slow loading time.
In the end, I have to disable DoS protection in the Asus router. I can’t tweak it but just disable it. And now it works.
I will put all words for google, hopefully someone will find my post: slow loading time nginx home assistant reverse proxy
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Yeah — I found this too. DDOS protection, QOS, etc — turn it all off!
Hi Batts, are you running Home Assistant in a VM external to your Docker Network?
I run HAOS on a dedicated machine. Different box to my unraid/docker containers.
Ah right, I am trying to get it working with a VM running on my unraid server (so would think pointing it to the IP would work the same as yours does). But just cannot get it to work. Cloudflare or the Port Forward may be the issue. Just cannot figure it out