I think I just give up configuring Nginx and just stay with Nginx Proxy Manager. That would mean I can't configure everything through files but at least it works.

I have now spent 2 days trying to get Nginx to work and I managed to reverse proxy to my selfhosted services with valid SSL certificates created with a DNS challenge but when I try to access my services via the configured URL I get an "/desktop#/" appended to it and half the apps don't like that and won't work with that.

I wish I could use Caddy but the way modules are installed for it is so unnecessarily convoluted IMO compared to Nginx plugins which you can just install with your package manager instead of having to build it with the modules included for yourself (or creating your own Docker image) which makes maintaining it a PITA (and I need a module for Caddy because I need DNS challenge for SSL certificates because I don't want to open any ports on my server).

Rant over I think

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