nginx-proxy-manager VS BunkerWeb

Not the same, but I just installed Crowdsec using a fork of NGINX Proxy Manager to help protect my server/apps. Using https://github.com/baudneo/nginx-proxy-manager talking to crowdsec installed on my base Ubuntu host.

I could also recommend to try custom docker image by baudneo https://github.com/baudneo/nginx-proxy-manager which is also recommended by crowdsec in this: https://www.crowdsec.net/blog/crowdsec-with-nginx-proxy-manager

I am using a custom image by baudneo (https://github.com/baudneo/nginx-proxy-manager) and I set this in my ./data/nginx/custom/http_top.conf file:

Keep in mind that integrating a WAF can render certain apps not working if the security configuration is set too paranoid. There are a lot of examples for apps that might be affected, though.

Its documentation is nice as well. You can also find them on Discord and the GitHub repo is also pretty clean and have many example configurations there.

This also effectively allows your killswitch to be Nginx on the VPS while still allowing local network traffic at home. You can take it a step further and geoblock countries and more with https://github.com/bunkerity/bunkerweb.

I know you asked about Nginx vs Caddy but to throw another one into the mix have a look at BunkerWeb. I only started using it within the last couple of months but it's based on Nginx with a tonne of usability and security improvements. I now use BunkerWeb to expose services externally and Traefik internally.

Creating a new discussion here doesn't seem to be an option (doesn't allow me to do so) so I came here.

There's also a security optimized NGINX image called BunkerWeb. It has a WAF builtin and an optional web interface.

Right now I'm doing a similar setup but I want to use NGINX with integrated WAF.

Bunkerised nginx comes me in mind here https://github.com/bunkerity/bunkerized-nginx