My Docker NGINX configuration for local IPFS gateway.

README.md

This is my Docker-NGINX-IPFS environment.

Docker Images

• ipfs/go-ipfs
• nginx

Endpoints

URL	Description	Redirect
http://<server-ip>/ipfs	Open gateway's WebUI	http://<gateway-ip>:5001/webui
http://<server-ip>/ipfs/<CID>	Get content from IPFS network	http://<gateway-ip>:8080/ipfs/<CID>
http://<server-ip>/ipns/<NID>	Resolve IPNS address	http://<gateway-ip>:8080/ipns/<NID>
http://<server-ip>/	"404 Not Found" Nginx's page

Using outside Docker

You can use the ipfs.conf outside a docker container, but just remember to change the proxy_pass address to yours.

compose.yml

services:
  nginx:
    container_name: NGINX
    image: nginx:alpine
    ports:
      - 80:80
    networks:
      - nginx-lan
    volumes:
      - type: volume
        source: nginx-data
        target: /etc/nginx
    restart: unless-stopped
  
  ipfs:
    container_name: IPFS
    image: ipfs/go-ipfs
    ports:
      - 4001:4001
      - 5001:5001
      - 8080:8080
    networks:
      - nginx-lan
    volumes:
      - type: volume
        source: ipfs-data
        target: /data/ipfs
    restart: unless-stopped

volumes:
  nginx-data:
  ipfs-data:

networks:
  nginx-lan:
    driver: bridge

ipfs.conf

# Place this file at /etc/nginx/conf.d/ipfs.conf

server {
	listen      80;
	server_name localhost;
	
	proxy_set_header Host       $host;
	proxy_set_header User-Agent $http_user_agent;
	allow all;
	
	# Disable Buffering
	proxy_buffering         off; # Disable buffer from proxy to client
	proxy_request_buffering off; # Disable buffer from client to proxy
	
	# Disable Proxy Cache
	proxy_no_cache 1;

	# No timeout errors
	keepalive_timeout     3600s;
	proxy_read_timeout    3600s;
	proxy_send_timeout    3600s;
	client_body_timeout   3600s;

	location /api {
		proxy_pass http://ipfs:5001; # <-------- Can't have the trailling slash
	}

	# http://localhost/ipfs redirects to webui
	location = /ipfs {
		proxy_pass http://ipfs:5001/webui/; # <- Should have the trailling slash
	}

	location ~* /(ipfs|ipns) {
		proxy_pass http://ipfs:8080; # <-------- Can't have the trailling slash
	}
}