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authorLibravatar Andrea <ajf@ajf.me>2022-12-07 21:50:37 +0100
committerLibravatar GitHub <noreply@github.com>2022-12-07 21:50:37 +0100
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@@ -49,6 +49,8 @@ In your GoToSocial config turn off Lets Encrypt by setting `letsencrypt-enabled`
If you we running GoToSocial on port 443, change the `port` value back to the default `8080`.
+If the reverse proxy will be running on the same machine, set the `bind-address` to `"localhost"` so that the GoToSocial server is only accessible via loopback. Otherwise it may be possible to bypass your proxy by connecting to GoToSocial directly, which might be undesirable.
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## Set up Caddy
We will configure Caddy 2 to use GoToSocial on our main domain example.org. Since Caddy takes care of obtaining the Lets Encrypt certificate, we only need to configure it properly once.