Self-host Nginx Proxy Manager with Docker

A web UI for managing Nginx reverse-proxy hosts, redirects, and Let's Encrypt certificates.

This page describes the Levelrail template for Nginx Proxy Manager (Infrastructure). It deploys the services below as one Docker Compose app on your own server.

Project site: https://nginxproxymanager.com/guide/.

Recommended memory: about 256 MiB.

Services, ports and volumes

Service	Image	Container ports	Volumes
npm	jc21/nginx-proxy-manager:2.12.3	81	npm_data -> /data npm_letsencrypt -> /etc/letsencrypt

Environment variables

Service	Variable	Value
npm	DB_SQLITE_FILE	Preset in the template

Passwords and keys marked as generated are created for you when the app is deployed and stored as secrets. Values are not shown here.

Deploy Nginx Proxy Manager with Levelrail

In the dashboard, open Apps, choose New app, then Browse templates, and select Nginx Proxy Manager. Review the Compose body and deploy.

With the CLI:

levelrail-cli templates deploy nginx-proxy-manager --name my-nginx-proxy-manager

See Service template catalog for how templates work, and Getting started if you have not installed Levelrail yet.

More Infrastructure templates

• AdGuard Home
• Cloudflare DDNS
• Elasticsearch
• NetBox
• Pi-hole
• Portainer

All templates are listed in the self-host gallery.