I’m running Keycloak in a Docker container and have set up an Nginx reverse proxy to make it accessible at docsbot.agency. My current setup allows access via HTTP, but I need to enable HTTPS using an SSL certificate I have for the domain.
Currently, I launch Keycloak with the following command:
sudo docker run -d -p 8000:8080 \
-e KC_BOOTSTRAP_ADMIN_USERNAME=admin \
-e KC_BOOTSTRAP_ADMIN_PASSWORD=admin \
quay.io/keycloak/keycloak:26.0.7 start-dev
My Nginx configuration is as follows:
server {
listen 80;
server_name docsbot.agency;
location / {
proxy_pass http://127.0.0.1:8000;
proxy_set_header Host $host;
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 $scheme;
}
}
How can I modify my setup to correctly enable HTTPS? Should I configure Keycloak differently, or should I handle it entirely through Nginx?
Any guidance would be much appreciated!
To launch keycloak with https enabled, I used
docker run -d --name keycloak-prod \
--network host \
-v /home/cloud/certificates:/certificates \
-e KEYCLOAK_ADMIN=admin \
-e KEYCLOAK_ADMIN_PASSWORD=password \
quay.io/keycloak/keycloak:latest \
start \
--features=token-exchange,hostname:v2 \
--https-certificate-file=/certificates/cert.pem \
--https-certificate-key-file=/certificates/key.pem \
--hostname=https://your-domain.com \
--proxy-headers=xforwarded \
After this configure nginx
server {
listen 80;
server_name your-domain.com;
return 301 https://$host$request_uri;
}
server {
listen 443 ssl;
ssl on;
ssl_certificate /home/user/certificates/cert.pem;
ssl_certificate_key /home/user/certificates/key.pem;
server_name your-domain.com;
location / {
proxy_pass https://127.0.0.1:8443;
proxy_set_header Host $host;
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 $scheme;
}
}