FlowForward Proxy

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An easy to configure Nginx based http/https forward proxy. No configuration files needed, configuration entirely through ENV vars.

Features

immediately deployable and usable
configuration entirely through docker environment variables
up to 10 proxies in a single container
SNI (server name indication support) for backends
configure different file upload settings with presets
connection pooling
available as docker image for Intel/AMD64 and ARM based platforms.
avaible for multiple nginx / alpine versions
graceful reload every N minutes to renew IP addresses for changing backends (i.e. AWS Loadbalancers etc)

Getting Started

Set up an https and a http proxy. Visit http://localhost:8772 and http://localhost:8773 for the proxied domains.

docker run --rm \
    -p "8772:8772" \
    -p "8773:8773" \
    -e "PROXY_BACKEND=www.google.com" \
    -e "PROXY_PORT=8772" \
    -e "PROXY_BACKEND2=www.example.com" \
    -e "PROXY_PORT2=8773" \
    -e "PROXY_PROTOCOL2=http" \
    24hoursmedia/flowforward-proxy:1-nginx1.25-alpine3.18-slim

Last modified: 29 december 2023