From 923d333823766db8bcbc746c81251cb043f7eb75 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Andrea Date: Wed, 7 Dec 2022 21:50:37 +0100 Subject: [docs] encourage using loopback bind address (#1166) --- docs/installation_guide/nginx.md | 2 ++ 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+) (limited to 'docs/installation_guide/nginx.md') diff --git a/docs/installation_guide/nginx.md b/docs/installation_guide/nginx.md index 7525d6634..6b689faf5 100644 --- a/docs/installation_guide/nginx.md +++ b/docs/installation_guide/nginx.md @@ -38,6 +38,8 @@ In your GoToSocial config turn off letsencrypt 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. + ## Set up NGINX First we will set up NGINX to serve GoToSocial as unsecured http and then use Certbot to automatically upgrade it to serve https. -- cgit v1.2.3