Why does Nginx Proxy Manager Stream won't work? - nginx

I'm currently trying to setup a tunneling tool, specific for game servers.
So you can start the server locally and everyone can join without open your ports or getting unsecure.
Basicly I do a reverse ssh tunnel to one of my dedicated linux servers where the game port get mapped to a different port (for example 8888). So the server is now exposed to the internet and available for anyone and the user don't have to get unsecure and open his own ports. Everyone can connect to the following ip: SERVERADRESS:8888.
The command which gets executed looks like this:
ssh -N -R "*:8888:localhost:25565" root#SERVERADRESS
This works fine just as i want. But I also want to secure my "forwarding" server, so I'm relativ new to networking but I found reverse proxy's. I watched some tutorials and I installed the "Nginx Proxy Manager" tool which comes with a web interface and looks very good and easy. So there is an option to create an Stream (Picture below), there you can enter the incoming port and the forward Host + port, for example: REVERSEPROXY:7777 -> FORWARDINGSERVER:8888. So with this I want to hide the ip adress from the server where all the ssh tunnels. Sadly this Stream tool won't work, I already saw some other topics with that. They all said to enter the port into the docker-compose.yml which I already did + restart. But for now it won't work. Any other soloutions for this problem? Or completly different ideas to protect my server?
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I try to do my own tunneling tool, but with a protection so that my server getting damaged.

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JupyterLab does not work when redirected using TLS

I have a local jupyter lab instance, running on mint-2 computer with command jupyter lab --ip "*", and it listens to port 8888. I can access it just fine via the URL mint-2:8888.
I also have a server instance ubuntu-2. I reverse ssh tunnel from mint-2:8888 to ubuntu-2:8888, meaning I can access it on my mint-1 laptop just fine via the URL ubuntu-2:8888 anywhere in the world.
However, it is not encrypted with TLS, so I wanted to improve this. On ubuntu-2 I have an nginx load balancer container that strips https traffic, and redirects http traffic to other locations. I have set up jupyter.ubuntu-2:443 so that it redirects to ubuntu-2:8888 so that it redirects to mint-2:8888. This version initially seems to open up just fine, and I can navigate directories. However, whenever I want to launch a new terminal or notebook instance, or even create new directories, it wouldn't work. Here's the network log when I save a modified notebook:
My question is, why won't the requests go through, considering I can still interact with the interface just fine everywhere else, but just not when creating folders/notebooks/terminals. I am thinking that JupyterLab might be using UDP and I'm considering passing UDP traffic through nginx, but this doesn't really make sense, as this is clearly a PUT request. Any other help regarding where to find more logs or speculation on what might have gone wrong is much appreciated.
I dig into it a little more, and managed to figured it out.
JupyterLab has CORS policy that doesn't allow requests to ubuntu-2. I then added c.NotebookApp.allow_origin = "*" to JupyterLab's config at ~/.jupyter/jupyter_lab_config.py, as mentioned here.
Then I found out that everything is still not functional, and this is because Jupyter requires both HTTP and WebSocket protocols, and my current server setup only allows http traffic. So I need to enable generic TCP traffic on ubuntu-2's HAProxy load balancer. Because I have multiple virtual hosts on the server, I need to distinguish between them, so I used Server Name Indication, server name included in TLS traffic.

When I run my daemon the service is a http proxy instead off http

I am currently running a service with systemctl, and it is running as an http proxy, not normal http. Is this something that Google does? I am using port 8080 and I can't connect to it via http. My daemon is using port 8080, while using the type http-proxy (I am seeing this with the command nmap -sV -sC -p 8080 35.208.25.61 -vvvv -Pn). Instead, I want the daemon I'm running (wings.service) to use http, so it can use that type of connection to connect to my panel.
The panel is part of a piece of software along with the daemon, it's called pterodactyl. Anyways, I have tried everything on what to do, and I think this problem that I am addressing is the problem that causes dysfunction on my panel. I might just have to move to a different service to host my bots for discord.
Let me know if there's anything I can do to fix this.
As per I can understand you are unable to access the panel via web URL.
Pterodactyl web server can be installed using NGINX or Apache web servers, and both web servers by default listed on port 80 based on Pterodactyl web server installation guide, so you must enable HTTP port 80 traffic on your Compute Engine VM instance
The default firewall rules on GCP do not allow HTTP or HTTPS connections to your instances. However, it is fairly simple to add a rule that does allow them following this steps:
1.-Go to the VM instances page.
2.- Click the name of the desired instance.
3.- Click Edit button at the top of the page.
4.- Scroll down to the Firewalls section.
5.- Check the Allow HTTP or Allow HTTPS options under your desired VPC network.
6.- Click Save.
Note: The Pterodactyl panel and Daemon installation are not the same for each operating system, if after checking the VPC firewall rules on the VM settings and also the status of the web server in the instance (NGINX or Apache) you still cannot access your panel, please provide a step by step list with all commands you followed to complete the installation, including the OS version you used.

Connect to a remote Jupyter runtime over HTTPS with Google Colab

I'm trying to use Google's Colab feature to connect to a remote run-time that is configured with HTTPS. However, I only see an option to inform the port on the UI, not the protocol.
I've checked the Network panel and the website starts a WebSocket connection with http://localhost:8888/http_over_websocket?min_version=0.0.1a3, HTTP-style.
Full details of my setup:
I have a public Jupyter server at https://123.123.123.123:8888 with self-signed certificate and password authentication
I've followed jupyter_http_over_ws' setup on the remote
I started the remote process with jupyter notebook --no-browser --keyfile key.pem --certfile crt.pem --ip 0.0.0.0 --notebook-dir notebook --NotebookApp.allow_origin='https://colab.research.google.com'
I've created a local port forwarding with ssh -L 8888:localhost:8888 dev#123.123.123.123
I've turned on network.websocket.allowInsecureFromHTTPS on Firefox
I've went to https://localhost:8888 and logged in
Naturally, when the UI calls http://localhost:8888/http_over_websocket?min_version=0.0.1a3 it fails. If I manually access https://localhost:8888/http_over_websocket?min_version=0.0.1a3 (note the extra s) it gets through.
I see three options to solve it:
Tell the UI to use secure WS connection
Run a proxy on my local machine to transform the HTTPS into plain HTTP
Turn off HTTPS on my remote
The last two I think will work, but I wouldn't like that way.
How to do #1?
Thanks a lot!
Your option 1 isn't possible in colab today.
Why do you want to use HTTPS over an SSH tunnel that already encrypts forwarded traffic?

unable to ping/send http requests to RHEL tomcat server on Azure

Note - I am fully aware that there are lot of similar issues posted before, but I tried NSG settings, psping but nothing seem to work
All, I brought up a RHEL7.3 server on Azure and installed JDK1.8 and Tomcat8. After starting Tomcat, I tried an http request from my browser:
http://XX.yy.zz.abc:8080/ but I was unable to get the index page
I also created an inbound security rule to allow HTTP and also allow IP range from our company.
Even worse is, when I tried pinging to this IP from my desktop computer, I am unable to ping the same - it is timing out.
Please note that in the past, I've been able to bring up servers and be able to connect from desktops without any issues - in a similar azure-companynetwork setup.
Am I missing anything here?
Ok, so pings do not work, you shouldn't even try that. What you should check is the firewall on you RHEL VM and check you've allowed port 8080 on you NSG, also your VM should have a PublicIP attached
According to your description, you had better check as the following ways:
1.Please ensure you could access your web by using 127.0.0.1:8080 on your VM.
2.Check your service listening.
netstat -ant|grep 8080
Please ensure 8080 is listening on tcp not tcp6.
3.Open firewall port on RHEL.
sudo firewall-cmd --zone=public --add-port=8080/tcp --permanent
More information about RHEL firewall please refer to this link.
4.Open port on Azure NSG.
NSG could be associated with NIC and subnet, you should check all of them.
All,
It looks like there is an input firewall inside of RHEL7.3 that is preventing connections. I just stopped it using
service firewalld stop
I am able to get the home page.

Nested port forwarding

This is first time I setup ftp server and I'm not really clever at network thing.
How do i want my connection to look like.
HOME > INTERNET > OFFICE_ROUTER > OFFICE_WORKSTATION > FTP_SERVER
OFFICE_WORKSTATION has 2 NIC: connection to FTP_SERVER and internet connection by OFFICE_ROUTER, FTP_SERVER has only connetion to OFFICE_WORKSTATION (localNetwork)
What I already did is vsftpd on FTP_SERVER with tls and it's already accesible from localNetwork - OFFICE_WORKSTATION (e.g by using totalCommander > 10.10.10.10:21)
I did port and ip forwarding on OFFICE_ROUTER (let's say its public ip is 192.192.192.1 and local 192.168.10.1)
So when I connect from HOME to OFFICE_ROUTER it sends me further to OFFICE_WORKSTATION.
Then i setup netsh on OFFICE_WORKSTATION ( localNetwork ip 10.10.10.50, inernetNetwork ip 192.168.10.10) to get 192.168.10.10:21 from internet and send it to 10.10.10.10:21 which is my FTP_SERVER. But such setup gives me "500 illegal PORT command"
Maybe it's because FTP_SERVER don't know how to send data back ? Because now it should respond from 10.10.10.10:21 (FTP_SERVER) to 10.10.10:50 OFFICE_WORKSTATION) and here netsh should take care of it and output it to OFFICE_ROUTER
I already know that ftp uses two ports data and command. Maybe i shoud forward both ports ?
I did test where my OFFICE_WORKSTATION serve FTP and I was able to connect it by HOME station by using single portForwarding on OFFICE_ROUTER.
With totalCommander from OFFICE_WORKSTATION i connect to 10.10.10.10:21 and it works, but if i try (also from OFFICE_WORKSTATION) in totalCommander to use those configured ports ( 192.168.10.10:21 > 10.10.10.10:21 ) I've got same error "500 illegal PORT command"
I want my OFFICE_WORKSTATION to serve as portForwarding (i don't even know how to call it). So at the end I think problem lies in error/problem in portForwarding configuration.
I would be very pleased if someone could give me some hints.
This is first time I setup ftp server
Don't.
Please, do not use FTP. You really, really do not want to use FTP. We do not want you to use FTP. Vint Cerf does not want you to use FTP. Bill Gates does not want you to use FTP. Even FTPS (which I'm guessing is what you are trying to say).
There are few things worse than FTP. FTPS is one of them. Setting up FTPS with any sort of NAT is really difficult for an expert systems admin.
There are lots of better solutions - SFTP (note order of letters - it's completely different) for one.

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