Nginx Reverse Proxy game hosting

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  • caddy-l4

    Layer 4 (TCP/UDP) app for Caddy

  • Wireguard gives my service servers their own internal IP for the gateway to reference (nothing fancy done with it, no iptables modifications like you may see on other guides), and I use NGINX for the game server proxying, specifically linuxserver's nginx container. I love Caddy, but even with caddy-l4 I couldn't get it working right for Valheim (and thus UDP), but NGINX worked real quick.

  • docker-baseimage-alpine-nginx

  • For nginx, if you don't want to deal with Docker, you can probably just follow their quick start guide, installing it on the gateway/proxy server. For the config file, if chucking on a "stream" block like I showed onto the default file that exists on install doesn't cut it, you can always reference linuxserver's default config file. Again, all I did was nuke the "http" block since I wasn't using it.

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