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SWAG | An integration guide for Authelia and the SWAG reverse proxy | A guide on integrating Authelia with SWAG. | 2022-06-15T17:51:47+10:00 | false | 351 | true |
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SWAG is a reverse proxy supported by Authelia. It's an NGINX proxy container with bundled configurations to make your life easier.
Important: When using these guides, it's important to recognize that we cannot provide a guide for every possible method of deploying a proxy. These guides show a suggested setup only, and you need to understand the proxy configuration and customize it to your needs. To-that-end, we include links to the official proxy documentation throughout this documentation and in the See Also section.
Introduction
As SWAG is a NGINX proxy with curated configurations, integration of Authelia with SWAG is very easy and you only need to enabled two includes.
{{< callout context="note" title="Note" icon="outline/info-circle" >}} All paths in this guide are the locations inside the container. You will have to either edit the files within the container or adapt the path to the path you have mounted the relevant container path to. {{< /callout >}}
Get started
It's strongly recommended that users setting up Authelia for the first time take a look at our Get started guide. This takes you through various steps which are essential to bootstrapping Authelia.
Requirements
SWAG supports the required NGINX requirements for Authelia out-of-the-box.
Trusted Proxies
Important: You should read the Forwarded Headers section and this section as part of any proxy configuration. Especially if you have never read it before.
To configure trusted proxies for SWAG see the NGINX section on Trusted Proxies. Adapting this to SWAG is beyond the scope of this documentation.
Assumptions and Adaptation
This guide makes a few assumptions. These assumptions may require adaptation in more advanced and complex scenarios. We can not reasonably have examples for every advanced configuration option that exists. Some of these values can automatically be replaced with documentation variables.
{{< sitevar-preferences >}}
The following are the assumptions we make:
- You have followed the Get Started guide and configured
- Deployment Scenario:
- Single Host
- Authelia is deployed as a Container with the container name
{{< sitevar name="host" nojs="authelia" >}}
on port{{< sitevar name="port" nojs="9091" >}}
- Proxy is deployed as a Container on a network shared with Authelia
- The above assumption means that Authelia should be accessible to the proxy on
{{< sitevar name="tls" nojs="http" >}}://{{< sitevar name="host" nojs="authelia" >}}:{{< sitevar name="port" nojs="9091" >}}
and as such:- You will have to adapt all instances of the above URL to be
https://
if Authelia configuration has a TLS key and certificate defined - You will have to adapt all instances of
{{< sitevar name="host" nojs="authelia" >}}
in the URL if:- You're using a different container name
- You deployed the proxy to a different location
- You will have to adapt all instances of
{{< sitevar name="port" nojs="9091" >}}
in the URL if:- You have adjusted the default port in the configuration
- You will have to adapt the entire URL if:
- Authelia is on a different host to the proxy
- You will have to adapt all instances of the above URL to be
- All services are part of the
{{< sitevar name="domain" nojs="example.com" >}}
domain:- This domain and the subdomains will have to be adapted in all examples to match your specific domains unless you're just testing or you want to use that specific domain
Docker Compose
The following docker compose example has various applications suitable for setting up an example environment.
It uses the nginx image from linuxserver.io which includes all of the
required modules including the http_set_misc
module.
It also includes the nginx-proxy-confs mod where
they have several configuration examples in the /config/nginx/proxy-confs
directory. This can be omitted if desired.
If you're looking for a more complete solution linuxserver.io also have an nginx container called SWAG which includes ACME and various other useful utilities.
---
networks:
net:
driver: 'bridge'
services:
swag:
container_name: 'swag'
image: 'lscr.io/linuxserver/swag'
restart: 'unless-stopped'
networks:
net:
aliases: []
ports:
- '80:80'
- '443:443'
volumes:
- '${PWD}/data/swag:/config'
## Uncomment the line below if you want to use the Authelia configuration snippets.
#- '${PWD}/data/nginx/snippets:/snippets'
environment:
PUID: '1000'
PGID: '1000'
TZ: 'Australia/Melbourne'
URL: '{{< sitevar name="domain" nojs="example.com" >}}'
SUBDOMAINS: 'www,whoami,auth,organizr'
VALIDATION: 'http'
CERTPROVIDER: 'cloudflare'
ONLY_SUBDOMAINS: 'false'
STAGING: 'true'
cap_add:
- 'NET_ADMIN'
authelia:
container_name: '{{< sitevar name="host" nojs="authelia" >}}'
image: 'authelia/authelia'
restart: 'unless-stopped'
networks:
net:
aliases: []
expose:
- {{< sitevar name="port" nojs="9091" >}}
volumes:
- '${PWD}/data/authelia/config:/config'
environment:
TZ: 'Australia/Melbourne'
organizr:
container_name: 'organizr'
image: 'organizr/organizr'
restart: 'unless-stopped'
networks:
net:
aliases: []
expose:
- 80
volumes:
- '${PWD}/data/organizr/config:/config'
environment:
PUID: '1000'
PGID: '1000'
TZ: 'Australia/Melbourne'
whoami:
container_name: 'whoami'
image: 'docker.io/traefik/whoami'
restart: 'unless-stopped'
networks:
net:
aliases: []
expose:
- 80
environment:
TZ: 'Australia/Melbourne'
...
Configuration Options
There are two configuration options for SWAG. The recommended option is Adjusting the Default Configuration
Option 1: Adjusting the Default Configuration
The first option requires some minor adjustments to be made and is the recommended option.
Adjust authelia-server.conf
The generated authelia-server.conf
includes the proxy_pass http://$upstream_authelia:{{< sitevar name="port" nojs="9091" >}};
directive in two location
blocks, we recommend adjusting these locations so they include the part of the location match after the /authelia
part
for example in the location = /authelia/api/verify
set the directive to
proxy_pass http://$upstream_authelia:{{< sitevar name="port" nojs="9091" >}}/api/verify;
and the location = /authelia/api/authz/auth-request
set the
directive to proxy_pass http://$upstream_authelia:{{< sitevar name="port" nojs="9091" >}}/api/authz/auth-request;
. See the below example.
# location for authelia 4.37 and below auth requests
location = /authelia/api/verify {
internal;
include /config/nginx/proxy.conf;
include /config/nginx/resolver.conf;
set $upstream_authelia authelia;
proxy_pass http://$upstream_authelia:{{< sitevar name="port" nojs="9091" >}}/api/verify;
## Include the Set-Cookie header if present
auth_request_set $set_cookie $upstream_http_set_cookie;
add_header Set-Cookie $set_cookie;
proxy_pass_request_body off;
proxy_set_header Content-Length "";
}
# location for authelia 4.38 and above auth requests
location = /authelia/api/authz/auth-request {
internal;
include /config/nginx/proxy.conf;
include /config/nginx/resolver.conf;
set $upstream_authelia authelia;
proxy_pass http://$upstream_authelia:{{< sitevar name="port" nojs="9091" >}}/api/authz/auth-request;
## Include the Set-Cookie header if present
auth_request_set $set_cookie $upstream_http_set_cookie;
add_header Set-Cookie $set_cookie;
proxy_pass_request_body off;
proxy_set_header Content-Length "";
}
Configure Authelia Site Configuration
- In the
/config/nginx/site-confs/
directory copyauthelia.subdomain.conf.sample
toauthelia.subdomain.conf
. - Edit
authelia.subdomain.conf
and adjustserver_name authelia.*;
to beserver_name auth.*;
.
Configure Organizr Site Configuration
We're using Organizr as an example application for this example.
- In the
/config/nginx/site-confs/
directory copyorganizr.subdomain.conf.sample
toorganizr.subdomain.conf
. - Edit
organizr.subdomain.conf
and remove the leading#
(i.e. uncomment) the #include /config/nginx/authelia-server.conf;
line and the#include /config/nginx/authelia-location.conf;
line.
Restart the Container
Once these changes have occurred you can restart SWAG and Organizr and Authelia should be configured correctly.
Option 2: Using the Authelia Supplementary Configuration Snippets
See standard NGINX guide (which can be used with SWAG) and run Authelia as its own subdomain.
Prerequisite Steps
In the SWAG /config
mount which is mounted to ${PWD}/data/swag
in our example:
- Create a folder named
snippets/authelia
:- The
mkdir -p ${PWD}/data/swag/nginx/snippets/authelia
command should achieve this on Linux.
- The
- Create the
${PWD}/data/swag/nginx/snippets/authelia/location.conf
file which can be found here. - Create the
${PWD}/data/swag/nginx/snippets/authelia/authrequest.conf
file which can be found here.- Ensure you adjust the line
error_page 401 =302 https://{{< sitevar name="subdomain-authelia" nojs="auth" >}}.{{< sitevar name="domain" nojs="example.com" >}}/?rd=$target_url;
replacinghttps://{{< sitevar name="subdomain-authelia" nojs="auth" >}}.{{< sitevar name="domain" nojs="example.com" >}}/
with your external Authelia URL.
- Ensure you adjust the line
Protected Application
In the server configuration for the application you want to protect:
- Edit the
/config/nginx/proxy-confs/
file for the application you wish to protect. - Under the
#include /config/nginx/authelia-server.conf;
line which should be within theserver
block but not inside anylocation
blocks add the following line:include /config/nginx/snippets/authelia/location.conf;
. - Under the
#include /config/nginx/authelia-location.conf;
line which should be within the applicationslocation
block add the following lineinclude /config/nginx/snippets/authelia/authrequest.conf;
.
Example
server {
listen 443 ssl;
listen [::]:443 ssl;
server_name whoami.*;
include /config/nginx/ssl.conf;
client_max_body_size 0;
# Authelia: Step 1.
#include /config/nginx/authelia-server.conf;
include /config/nginx/snippets/authelia/location.conf;
location / {
# Authelia: Step 2.
#include /config/nginx/authelia-location.conf;
include /config/nginx/snippets/authelia/authrequest.conf;
include /config/nginx/proxy.conf;
resolver 127.0.0.11 valid=30s;
set $upstream_app whoami;
set $upstream_port 80;
set $upstream_proto http;
proxy_pass $upstream_proto://$upstream_app:$upstream_port;
}
}