Example config for nginx reverse proxy

docs/config.md

@@ -12,4 +12,87 @@ Example for the path template:
 
 ```
 {{printf \"/%v/%v\" .Section .Slug}}
+```
+
+### Setting Up GoBlog with nginx
+
+The following is a bare-minimum example configuration for GoBlog running behind an NGINX Reverse Proxy and using the certbot plugin to generate SSL certificates.
+
+**config.yml**
+
+```text-plain
+# Web server
+server:
+  logging: true # Enable access log
+  logFile: data/access.log # File path for the access log
+  port: 8080 # GoBlog Port
+  publicAddress: https://yourdomain.tld # Public address to 
+  publicHttps: false # Use Let's Encrypt and serve site with HTTPS
+  
+# User
+user:
+  nick: user # Username
+  password: password # Password for login
+  email: user@email.tld # Your E-mail address  
+
+# Blogs
+defaultBlog: blogName # Default blog code (needed because you can define multiple blogs)
+blogs:
+  blogName: # Blog code
+    path: / # Path of blog
+    lang: en # Language of blog
+    title: My Cool Blog # Blog title
+    description: "Welcome to this blog." # Blog description
+    pagination: 10 # Number of posts per page
+    # Sections
+    defaultsection: notes # Default section
+    sections:
+      notes:
+        title: Notes
+        description: "A section for notes." # Section description, can also use Markdown
+        pathtemplate: "{{printf \"/%v/%02d/%02d/%v\" .Section .Year .Month .Slug}}"
+        showFull: true # Show full post content instead of just the summary on index pages
+    # Taxonomies
+    taxonomies:
+      - name: tags # Code of taxonomy (used via post parameters)
+        title: Tags # Name
+        description: "**Tags** on this blog" # Description
+    # Menus
+    menus:
+      # Main menu
+      main:
+        items:
+          - title: Home # Title
+            link: / # Site-relative or absolute links
+          - title: Notes
+            link: /notes
+```
+
+**example-nginx.conf**
+
+```text-plain
+server {
+    server_name yourdomain.tld;
+
+    location / {
+        proxy_set_header X-Real-IP $remote_addr;
+        proxy_set_header X-Forwarded-For $proxy_add_x_forwarded_for;
+        proxy_set_header X-Forwarded-Proto https;
+        proxy_set_header X-Forwarded-Host $http_host;
+        proxy_set_header Host $http_host;
+        proxy_http_version 1.1;
+        proxy_set_header Upgrade $http_upgrade;
+        proxy_set_header Connection "upgrade";
+        proxy_max_temp_file_size 0;
+        proxy_pass http://localhost:GoBlogPort;
+        proxy_redirect http:// https://;
+        client_max_body_size 30M;
+    }
+}    
+```
+
+Generate SSL certificates with the nginx certbot plugin by running:
+
+```text-plain
+$ certbot --nginx -d yourdomain.tld -d www.yourdomain.tld
 ```