Thingsboard nginx reverse proxy with websocket and HTTPS support (Let's Encrypt)

nginx-thingsboard

server {
    listen 80;
    server_name EXTERNAL_THINGSBOARD_DOMAIN.com;

    if ($scheme != "https") {
        return 301 https://$host$request_uri;
    } # managed by Certbot
}

server {
        listen 443 ssl;
        server_name  EXTERNAL_THINGSBOARD_DOMAIN.com;
        ssl_certificate /etc/letsencrypt/live/example.com/fullchain.pem; # managed by Certbot
                ssl_certificate_key /etc/letsencrypt/live/example.com/privkey.pem; # managed by Certbot
                ssl_session_cache shared:SSL:1m;
        ssl_session_timeout 1d;
        ssl_protocols TLSv1.2;
        ssl_ciphers 'ECDHE-ECDSA-AES256-GCM-SHA384:ECDHE-RSA-AES256-GCM-SHA384:ECDHE-ECDSA-CHACHA20-POLY1305:ECDHE-RSA-CHACHA20-POLY1305:ECDHE-ECDSA-AES128-GCM-SHA256:ECDHE-RSA-AES128-GCM-SHA256:ECDHE-ECDSA-AES256-SHA384:ECDHE-RSA-AES256-SHA384:ECDHE-ECDSA-AES128-SHA256:ECDHE-RSA-AES128-SHA256';
        ssl_prefer_server_ciphers on;
        ssl_stapling on;
        ssl_stapling_verify on;


        location / {
                proxy_pass http://LOCAL_THINGSGBOARD_IP_OR_DOMAN:8080;
                proxy_http_version 1.1;
                proxy_set_header Upgrade $http_upgrade;
                proxy_set_header Connection "Upgrade";
                proxy_set_header Host $host;
        }
}

This doc is very helpful. Thx.

Works out of the box. Thanks

Worked a treat for me, thank you

location /dashboard/ {
proxy_pass http://LOCAL_THINGSGBOARD_IP_OR_DOMAN:8080;
proxy_http_version 1.1;
proxy_set_header Upgrade $http_upgrade;
proxy_set_header Connection "Upgrade";
proxy_set_header Host $host;
}

Thanks for your work on this, it was very helpfull. It looks like if I use a sub path like https://THINGBOARD.DOMAIN/dashboard/ there is a problem with serving javacomponents to the browser resulting in a blank page. Any thoughts on this?

Is there a config entry available to tune the root url in thingsboard?

root_url = %(protocol)s://%(domain)s/dashboard/

worked for me alse (docker compose with nginx and thingsboard). Thank you very much!

location /dashboard/ {
proxy_pass http://LOCAL_THINGSGBOARD_IP_OR_DOMAN:8080;
proxy_http_version 1.1;
proxy_set_header Upgrade $http_upgrade;
proxy_set_header Connection "Upgrade";
proxy_set_header Host $host;
}

Thanks for your work on this, it was very helpfull. It looks like if I use a sub path like https://THINGBOARD.DOMAIN/dashboard/ there is a problem with serving javacomponents to the browser resulting in a blank page. Any thoughts on this?

Is there a config entry available to tune the root url in thingsboard?

root_url = %(protocol)s://%(domain)s/dashboard/

Hi, same problem
tried nginx with location
/thingsboard but JS content is not loading.
@BasSwildens Did You find a solution?

location /dashboard/ {
proxy_pass http://LOCAL_THINGSGBOARD_IP_OR_DOMAN:8080;
proxy_http_version 1.1;
proxy_set_header Upgrade $http_upgrade;
proxy_set_header Connection "Upgrade";
proxy_set_header Host $host;
}

Thanks for your work on this, it was very helpfull. It looks like if I use a sub path like https://THINGBOARD.DOMAIN/dashboard/ there is a problem with serving javacomponents to the browser resulting in a blank page. Any thoughts on this?
Is there a config entry available to tune the root url in thingsboard?

root_url = %(protocol)s://%(domain)s/dashboard/

Hi, same problem
tried nginx with location
/thingsboard but JS content is not loading.
@BasSwildens Did You find a solution?

We used a workaround by adding an extra CNAME to our dns, https://dashboard.domainname.com

thanks, I might also try with rewrite plugin

Thanks it works out of the box for me as well !!

it works
but in my server, my nginx (1.14 ) conf is this path "/etc/nginx/sites-available/deafult"

i modify "default" by this method, it works well, thank you very much

Thanks, @mfalkvidd! I used your config for a dockerized version of Thingsboard + Nginx reverse proxy here: https://github.com/michalfapso/thingsboard_docker_https

Hi: Thank you very much for sharing the configuration.
Communication with a Flutter App. The http, https and ws requests work fine, but when I try to wss, flutter gives me the following error: WRONG_VERSION_NUMBER (tls_record.cc:242)
Does anyone know how to fix it?

Thank You so much for this... I was trying to solve this for 3 hours

This is very helpful. One thing I want to raise here is that there are issues with http2 and thingsboard with certain browsers like Chrome. One way to get around this is to do use an nginx proxy, which can't relay to the backend using http2 anyway. I think that there might be some advantage to enable http2 anyway:

listen 1.2.3.4:443 ssl http2;

so that the client can talk to nginx using http2, then nginx will talk to thingsboard using http/1.1 which should get around the problem of thingsboard running out of connections.

Either way ... keep http/2 in mind when you do this and make a deliberate decision what to do; the way you have this written it may be disabled (which may be exactly what you want).

Thank you! WebSockets weren't working before, but your solution fixed the issue!