abhishek-deshmukh / nrps

A frontend to set reverse proxy on an Nginx server because the Nginx confs are ugly🤢

NRPS

Nginx Reverse Proxy Setter

It started just for reverse proxy but now you can do all static file handling as well

If you wondering if this is secure this uses a 2^7 bit security code to do anything.

It provides with a frontend to setup Nginx server.

Because the nginx confs are ugly🤢

Screenshot

Requirements

Build machine

Usually your laptop or desktop but can be the remote server itself

• NodeJS

Deployment machine

The remote server

• python3 (For reading and righting the nginx config)
• python3-pip (installing things for python)
• virtualenv (so that nrps does not mess up other things)
• nginx (duh …)
• supervisor (to keep python running and restarting when it stops)
• certbot (for https)
• certbot-nginx (for https)

How to Install and run

Follow docs

Architecture

A flask api(backend) run as a root user, can read and write the nginx conf file, it gets requests form front end.

The fronend is a vue app, requests are send using axios.

Login authentication is done by flask

How to run (development)

Frontend

• set up ip address in ./frontend/src/store/index.ts in the place of xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx
• cd frontend/
• npm install
• npm run serve

Backend/API

• Set up IP address in ./backend/api.py in the place of xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx
• Put in the USERNAME and PASSWORD in ./backend/api.py
• cd backend
• pip install -r requirements.txt
• python api.py

nrps's Issues

Login Credentials Fail

Thanks for an attempt at this. If I can figure this out I'm happy to submit a docker container that makes deployment trivial. However, I can't get past the login page despite setting the username and password in backend/api.py
Also frontend/src/store/index.ts is a litte worrisome because it asks for a username but you say put in the servername. I've attempted to make all three fields "admin" for testing. I get the login page but no further.

I suspect this is due to secrets.txt perhaps not getting written but having trouble finding logs.

ubuntu@NRPS:~$ cat NRPS/backend/api.py 
....
# enter things here
USERNAME = "admin"
PASSWORD = "admin"
# enter things here

APP = Flask(__name__)
CORS(APP)
PATH_TO_CONF = "../conf.d/default.conf"
SECRET_FILE = "./secrets.txt"
...

ubuntu@NRPS:~$ cat NRPS/frontend/src/store/index.ts 
import Vue from "vue";
import Vuex from "vuex";

Vue.use(Vuex);

export default new Vuex.Store({
  state: {

    // enter here
    rootIP: "10.1.1.13",
    userName: "admin",
    // enter here

    securityKey: "",
    loggedIn: false,
  },
  mutations: {},
  actions: {},
  modules: {},
});