Using nginx proxy manager with ipv6

Installation Home Assistant OS
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Hello my dear home assistant community,
I’ve been trying to get my home assistant instance to work with my own domain.
After I discovered that I only have ipv6 available, I decided to run everything on ipv6 instead.

In my configuration file, I added these lines for http:

http:
  base_url: xxx.xxx.com
  server_host: ::0
  use_x_forwarded_for: true
  trusted_proxies: ::0

My nginx proxy looks like this:

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In the destination I put the same address as I would when trying to access home assistant myself over my local network.

When I use this configuration, restart my entire system and go to my domain, it says 502 BAD GATEWAY. This shows that my domain points to the right ipv6 address.

When I just use my ip to connect to the instance, I get the Congratulations! you’ve succesfully started the nginx proxy manager. When I use the same address and put :8123 behind it, I can also access my home assistant instance, because I forwarded all ports necessary for testing purpose (80,443,8123).

When I edit the destination in the proxy manager to my local ipv4 address, I get a 400: Bad request from home assistant, at least thats what I think.

I really don’t know what I have to do, to get this stuff running. I’ve spent several nights trying anything and googling, but at this point you guys are my last hope.

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Hi mindcollaps,

did you solve your problem? I am running into the same problem and … :frowning:

Markus

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I just tried the same thing, and I’m not having any luck. I tested the same as above, I can connect directly to HA via the IPv6 and port (if I open it temporarily for testing). However, when I try to configure the IPv6 address via NGINX Proxy Manager, I am not having any luck. Has anyone got this working?

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Hi, yes. I have it kinda working. So basically you need to have SLAAC on your router up and running. After that my HA got an valid IPv6.

When your HA has an valid address you should be able to reach for example the configuration Page of NPM using http:[fd00:::]:81. If you reach it that should be a sign that your NPM can receive IPv6 traffic.

Unfortunately after checking the docker bridge with docker network inspect “bridge” I found out that the docker network is running with IPv6 disabled. That means that traffic coming from the docker is coming over an IPv4 address. Somebody mentioned it also here: How to use Ipv6 to reverse proxy · Issue #861 · NginxProxyManager/nginx-proxy-manager · GitHub

That means without further configuration on the bridge or adding another ipv6 bridge to the docker network we won’t be able to forward ipv6 traffic but instead you have to insert your ipv4 address in the destination field.

Maybe if I find some time I try to add an ipv6 bridge but HA OS doesnt give you all the docker options sooo we have to check.