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Vaultwarden using Docker Compose with existing Certificates

Hello Friends,

I have a small ubuntu Server and I finally also want to transfer my Vaultwarden Instance to it. On this Server I have several services running (homeassistant, …) and Certbot via Dehydrated (right now I get a certificate for my duckdns address). In some directory I have the privkey and fullchain files.

Now my Problem is that when I start vaultwarden it wont load as https.

I believe, my Problem is telling Vaultwarden, where my certificate files are located so it can use them accordingly.

This is my Compose File right now:


<span style="color:#323232;">  vaultwarden:
</span><span style="color:#323232;">    container_name: vaultwarden
</span><span style="color:#323232;">    image: vaultwarden/server:latest
</span><span style="color:#323232;">    restart: unless-stopped
</span><span style="color:#323232;">    volumes:
</span><span style="color:#323232;">      - /home/vaultwarden:/data/
</span><span style="color:#323232;">      - /home/(directory to my certificates):/usr/share/ca-certificates/
</span><span style="color:#323232;">    ports:
</span><span style="color:#323232;">      - 8129:80
</span><span style="color:#323232;">    environment:
</span><span style="color:#323232;">      - DOMAIN=https://hurrdurr.duckdns.org
</span><span style="color:#323232;">      - LOGIN_RATELIMIT_MAX_BURST=10
</span><span style="color:#323232;">      - LOGIN_RATELIMIT_SECONDS=60
</span><span style="color:#323232;">      - ADMIN_RATELIMIT_MAX_BURST=10
</span><span style="color:#323232;">      - ADMIN_RATELIMIT_SECONDS=60
</span><span style="color:#323232;">      - ADMIN_TOKEN=token
</span><span style="color:#323232;">      - SENDS_ALLOWED=true
</span><span style="color:#323232;">      - EMERGENCY_ACCESS_ALLOWED=true
</span><span style="color:#323232;">      - WEB_VAULT_ENABLED=true
</span><span style="color:#323232;">      - SIGNUPS_ALLOWED=true
</span>

The Volume Mapping to the certificates was just me trying it out so maybe its working if I map it like that.

If I open the 8129 in my Browser it will just time out. I also managed it to start but it wouldnt let me register as theres not https certificate.

Decronym Bot , (edited )

Acronyms, initialisms, abbreviations, contractions, and other phrases which expand to something larger, that I’ve seen in this thread:

Fewer Letters More Letters
DNS Domain Name Service/System
HTTP Hypertext Transfer Protocol, the Web
IP Internet Protocol
SSL Secure Sockets Layer, for transparent encryption
nginx Popular HTTP server

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giddy ,
@giddy@aussie.zone avatar

I use Nginx Proxy Manager to reverse proxy all my services including Vaultwarden -

Setup in NPM -


<span style="color:#323232;">Open Nginx Proxy Manager Admin Portal
</span><span style="color:#323232;">Click Proxy Hosts
</span><span style="color:#323232;">Click Add Proxy Host
</span><span style="color:#323232;">Fill in the details
</span><span style="color:#323232;">    Details tab
</span><span style="color:#323232;">        Domain Names - vault.your.domain
</span><span style="color:#323232;">        Scheme - http
</span><span style="color:#323232;">        Forward Hostname/IP - vaultwarden (this should be the name of your vw container)
</span><span style="color:#323232;">        Forward Port - 80
</span><span style="color:#323232;">        Tick Block Common Exploits
</span><span style="color:#323232;">        Tick Websockets Support
</span><span style="color:#323232;">        Access List - Publicly Accessible
</span><span style="color:#323232;">    Custom locations tab
</span><span style="color:#323232;">        Add the following locations
</span><span style="color:#323232;">            location 1
</span><span style="color:#323232;">                location - /notifications/hub
</span><span style="color:#323232;">                Scheme - http
</span><span style="color:#323232;">                Forward Hostname/IP - vaultwarden
</span><span style="color:#323232;">                Forward Port - 3012
</span><span style="color:#323232;">                Click the cog symbol and add the following to the textbox that appears
</span><span style="color:#323232;">                    proxy_set_header Upgrade $http_upgrade;
</span><span style="color:#323232;">                    proxy_set_header Connection "upgrade";
</span><span style="color:#323232;">                    proxy_set_header X-Real-IP $remote_addr;
</span><span style="color:#323232;">            location 2
</span><span style="color:#323232;">                location - /notifications/hub/negotiate
</span><span style="color:#323232;">                Scheme - http
</span><span style="color:#323232;">                Forward Hostname/IP - vaultwarden
</span><span style="color:#323232;">                Forward Port - 80
</span><span style="color:#323232;">                Click the cog symbol and add the following to the textbox that appears
</span><span style="color:#323232;">                    proxy_set_header Host $host;
</span><span style="color:#323232;">                    proxy_set_header X-Real-IP $remote_addr;
</span><span style="color:#323232;">                    proxy_set_header X-Forwarded-For $proxy_add_x_forwarded_for;
</span><span style="color:#323232;">                    proxy_set_header X-Forwarded-Proto $scheme;
</span><span style="color:#323232;">            location 3
</span><span style="color:#323232;">                location - /
</span><span style="color:#323232;">                Scheme - http
</span><span style="color:#323232;">                Forward Hostname/IP - vaultwarden
</span><span style="color:#323232;">                Forward Port - 80
</span><span style="color:#323232;">                Click the cog symbol and add the following to the textbox that appears
</span><span style="color:#323232;">                    proxy_set_header Host $host;
</span><span style="color:#323232;">                    proxy_set_header X-Real-IP $remote_addr;
</span><span style="color:#323232;">                    proxy_set_header X-Forwarded-For $proxy_add_x_forwarded_for;
</span><span style="color:#323232;">                    proxy_set_header X-Forwarded-Proto $scheme;
</span><span style="color:#323232;">    SSL tab
</span><span style="color:#323232;">        SSL Certificate - Request a new SSL Certificate
</span><span style="color:#323232;">        tick Use a DNS Challenge (or just expose port 80 if you accept the risk)
</span><span style="color:#323232;">        DNS Provider - Dynu (this is my dyndns provider)
</span><span style="color:#323232;">        Credentials File Content - replace YOUR_DYNU_AUTH_TOKEN with the API key from https://www.dynu.com/en-US/ControlPanel/APICredentials
</span><span style="color:#323232;">        Email Address for Let's Encrypt - your email
</span><span style="color:#323232;">        Tick I Agree to the Let's Encrypt Terms of Service
</span><span style="color:#323232;">Click Save
</span><span style="color:#323232;">Vaultwarden should now be accessible via https://vault.your.domain
</span>
Lobotomie OP ,

Can I send you a pm regarding my progress so far? I’m kind off stuck at configuring everything:/

dandroid ,

Seconding a reverse proxy. Once you have it set up, it’s trivial to add a subdomain, forward it to your internal port that your container is exposing, then use certbot or whatever to get a new certificate for that subdomain.

I just use apache because I heavily use it for work, so I already know it well. But lots of people swear by nginx as well. There are lots of other options as well.

lemmyvore ,

No need to get a certificate for ever subdomain, you can get a wildcard cert for *.your. domain.

dandroid ,

True. I did that for one of my domains, but it was really quite annoying to do with certbot, as you needed some sort of plugin.

Kangie ,

It’s fine with Let’sEncrypt via the DNS01 challenge; my lab typically only uses one wildcard certificate for all the services there unless I have a specific need to generate an indovidual cert for a service.

klangcola ,

Thirding a reverse proxy. Probably Nginx Proxy Manager (NPM) is the easiest reverse proxy to get started with, if you don’t want to deal with plain nginx config files

Kangie ,

Here’s the secret to stuff like this:

Run a single reverse proxy / edge router for all of your containerised services.

I recommend Traefik - gitlab.com/…/traefik-grafana-prometheus-docker

You can configure services with labels attached to the container and (almost) never expose ports directly. It also lets you host an arbitrary number of services listening on 80/443.

An example config might look like this:


<span style="color:#323232;"># docker-compose.yml
</span><span style="color:#323232;">version: '3.9'
</span><span style="color:#323232;">
</span><span style="color:#323232;">services:
</span><span style="color:#323232;">  bitwarden:
</span><span style="color:#323232;">    image: vaultwarden/server:latest
</span><span style="color:#323232;">    restart: always
</span><span style="color:#323232;">    volumes:
</span><span style="color:#323232;">      - /data/vaultwarden/:/data
</span><span style="color:#323232;">    environment:
</span><span style="color:#323232;">#      - ADMIN_TOKEN=
</span><span style="color:#323232;">      - WEBSOCKET_ENABLED=true
</span><span style="color:#323232;">    networks:
</span><span style="color:#323232;">      - proxy
</span><span style="color:#323232;">    labels:
</span><span style="color:#323232;">      - traefik.enable=true
</span><span style="color:#323232;">      - traefik.http.routers.bitwarden-ui-https.tls.certresolver=letsencrypt
</span><span style="color:#323232;">      - traefik.http.middlewares.redirect-https.redirectScheme.scheme=https
</span><span style="color:#323232;">      - traefik.http.middlewares.redirect-https.redirectScheme.permanent=true
</span><span style="color:#323232;">      - traefik.http.routers.bitwarden-ui-https.rule=Host(`my.domain.com`)
</span><span style="color:#323232;">      - traefik.http.routers.bitwarden-ui-https.entrypoints=websecure
</span><span style="color:#323232;">      - traefik.http.routers.bitwarden-ui-https.tls=true
</span><span style="color:#323232;">      - traefik.http.routers.bitwarden-ui-https.service=bitwarden-ui
</span><span style="color:#323232;">      - traefik.http.routers.bitwarden-ui-http.rule=Host(`my.domain.com`)
</span><span style="color:#323232;">      - traefik.http.routers.bitwarden-ui-http.entrypoints=web
</span><span style="color:#323232;">      - traefik.http.routers.bitwarden-ui-http.middlewares=redirect-https
</span><span style="color:#323232;">      - traefik.http.routers.bitwarden-ui-http.service=bitwarden-ui
</span><span style="color:#323232;">      - traefik.http.services.bitwarden-ui.loadbalancer.server.port=80
</span><span style="color:#323232;">      - traefik.http.routers.bitwarden-websocket-https.rule=Host(`my.domain.com) &amp;&amp; Path(`/notifications/hub`)
</span><span style="color:#323232;">      - traefik.http.routers.bitwarden-websocket-https.entrypoints=websecure
</span><span style="color:#323232;">      - traefik.http.routers.bitwarden-websocket-https.tls=true
</span><span style="color:#323232;">      - traefik.http.routers.bitwarden-websocket-https.service=bitwarden-websocket
</span><span style="color:#323232;">      - traefik.http.routers.bitwarden-websocket-http.rule=Host(`my.domain.com`) &amp;&amp; Path(`/notifications/hub`)
</span><span style="color:#323232;">      - traefik.http.routers.bitwarden-websocket-http.entrypoints=web
</span><span style="color:#323232;">      - traefik.http.routers.bitwarden-websocket-http.middlewares=redirect-https
</span><span style="color:#323232;">      - traefik.http.routers.bitwarden-websocket-http.service=bitwarden-websocket
</span><span style="color:#323232;">      - traefik.http.services.bitwarden-websocket.loadbalancer.server.port=3012
</span>
emhl ,

Using traefik as your first reverse proxy might be a bit daunting. Caddy or “nginx reverse proxy” are much easier to configure.

7Sea_Sailor ,

If you want it beginner friendly, I can recommend nginx proxy Manager, which is basically a web ui frontend for nginx. This has its own drawbacks, but makes setup very uncomplicated.

koinu ,

I agree, very beginner friendly. But also, it’s what most people are gonna need.

I actually started with Traefik because I didn’t know any better, and I kinda wanna go back to be honest because with Traefik I was able to configure a Minecraft server, without having to expose the port. But not with NGINX Proxy Manager.l, since it only does http and shit. But I REALLY like being able to do everything via a webUI since I only have a phone to manage my server .

So, I find myself stuck between functionality and ease of use. :(

Kangie ,

At the end of the day Traefik isn’t that hard, especially if you know the core concepts; if you know both and have a need for Traefik I’d just use that everywhere.

lemmyvore ,

Nginx Proxy Manager can do stream hosts, which are encrypted tunnels where you can put any kind of traffic not just HTTP.

koinu ,

I’ve tried, but I wasn’t able to get it working. I’ll look into it again though, cuz I’d love to do it all through NPM.

7Sea_Sailor ,

You should look into NPM Streams, they’re built exactly for this purpose. It’s included by default, just another type of host.

koinu ,

I’ve tried, but I wasn’t able to get it working. I’ll look into it again though, cuz I’d love to do it all through NPM.

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