Zoraxy describes itself as:
“General purpose request (reverse) proxy and forwarding tool for networking noobs. Now written in Go!”.
Yet it seems to be packed with goodies and features, such as Geo-IP & Blacklist, ZeroTier controller integrated GAN, IP Scanner, Real Time Stats and even built in Uptime monitor. Addtionally, it can run via a single binary for those who don’t want to rely on Docker. There is also an Unraid Template available from IBRACORP. Lastly the project is under the AGPL license 🌻
I also checked, and saw this was recommended on this community 9months ago, but didn’t seem to get much attraction then. Has anyone tried this yet? It seems like a good alternative to say NGINX proxy manager and am wondering if I should switch, but wanted to hear thoughts first!
Zoraxy’s Github list the following features:
Features
- Simple to use interface with detail in-system instructions
- Reverse Proxy (HTTP/2)
- Virtual Directory
- WebSocket Proxy (automatic, no set-up needed)
- Basic Auth
- Alias Hostnames
- Custom Headers
- Redirection Rules
- TLS / SSL setup and deploy
- ACME features like auto-renew to serve your sites in https
- SNI support (one certificate contains multiple host names)
- Blacklist / Whitelist by country or IP address (single IP, CIDR or wildcard for beginners)
- Global Area Network Controller Web UI (ZeroTier not included)
- TCP Tunneling / Proxy
- Integrated Up-time Monitor
- Web-SSH Terminal
- Utilities
- CIDR IP converters
- mDNS Scanner
- IP Scanner
- Others
- Basic single-admin management mode
- External permission management system for easy system integration
- SMTP config for password reset
Screenshots
Why? It is a reverse proxy, not a fully webserver, this is the difference from Nginx Proxy Manager, which includes Nginx. But advanced configuration can be a pain with NPM too, just look for Synapse and Delegation. This is troublesome for most users of NPM.
Zoraxy can serve a static website, but traffic splitting like for Synapse, MinIO or Mastodon is part of a (fully) webserver.
I use Zoraxy as a reverse proxy for easy managing my services, mostly directly in containers, but I use it with Apache and Nginx on the same host too for WordPress and Nextcloud for example.
Beginners will mostly only use docker containers, without further configuration, like in NPM and this works out of the box :)
Splitting traffic on a reverse proxy host based on various triggers is a pretty common thing for a reverse proxy to do. Caddy does it, Nginx does it, HAProxy does it.