Setting up a local reverse proxy with Nginx Proxy Manager and Let's Encrypt

This is part 2 on the topic of a short series about setting up DNS hosting with Cloudflare and using DNS-01 challenges to get TLS certificates from Let’s Encrypt See part 1: Moving DNS hosting from Namecheap to Cloudflare In this post I am sharing my experience setting up a reverse proxy that acts as a frontend for my internal self-hosted web services. What and why? A reverse proxy is a service that acts as an entry point to one or more kinds of services, often web services, but it can vary. The reverse proxy is a layer in-between the user and service. ...

November 23, 2025 · 10 min · David Isaksson