lemmy/ansible/templates/nginx.conf

limit_req_zone $binary_remote_addr zone=lemmy_ratelimit:10m rate=1r/s;

server {
    listen 80;
    server_name {{ domain }};
    location /.well-known/acme-challenge/ {
        root /var/www/certbot;
    }
    location / {
        return 301 https://$host$request_uri;
    }
}

server {
    listen 443 ssl http2;
    server_name {{ domain }};

    ssl_certificate /etc/letsencrypt/live/{{domain}}/fullchain.pem;
    ssl_certificate_key /etc/letsencrypt/live/{{domain}}/privkey.pem;

    # Various TLS hardening settings
    # https://raymii.org/s/tutorials/Strong_SSL_Security_On_nginx.html
    ssl_protocols TLSv1.2 TLSv1.3;
    ssl_prefer_server_ciphers on;
    ssl_ciphers 'ECDHE-ECDSA-AES256-GCM-SHA384:ECDHE-RSA-AES256-GCM-SHA384:ECDHE-ECDSA-CHACHA20-POLY1305:ECDHE-RSA-CHACHA20-POLY1305:ECDHE-ECDSA-AES128-GCM-SHA256:ECDHE-RSA-AES128-GCM-SHA256:ECDHE-ECDSA-AES256-SHA384:ECDHE-RSA-AES256-SHA384:ECDHE-ECDSA-AES128-SHA256:ECDHE-RSA-AES128-SHA256';
    ssl_session_timeout  10m;
    ssl_session_cache shared:SSL:10m;
    ssl_session_tickets off;
    ssl_stapling on;
    ssl_stapling_verify on;

    # Hide nginx version
    server_tokens off;

    # Enable compression for JS/CSS/HTML bundle, for improved client load times.
    # It might be nice to compress JSON, but leaving that out to protect against potential
    # compression+encryption information leak attacks like BREACH.
    gzip on;
    gzip_types text/css application/javascript image/svg+xml;
    gzip_vary on;

    # Only connect to this site via HTTPS for the two years
    add_header Strict-Transport-Security "max-age=63072000";

    # Various content security headers
    add_header Referrer-Policy "same-origin";
    add_header X-Content-Type-Options "nosniff";
    add_header X-Frame-Options "DENY";
    add_header X-XSS-Protection "1; mode=block";

    # Upload limit for pictrs
    client_max_body_size 20M;

    # frontend
    location / {
      # The default ports:
      # lemmy_ui_port: 1235
      # lemmy_port: 8536

      set $proxpass "http://0.0.0.0:{{ lemmy_ui_port }}";
      if ($http_accept = "application/activity+json") {
        set $proxpass "http://0.0.0.0:{{ lemmy_port }}";
      }
      if ($http_accept = "application/ld+json; profile=\"https://www.w3.org/ns/activitystreams\"") {
        set $proxpass "http://0.0.0.0:{{ lemmy_port }}";
      }
      if ($request_method = POST) {
        set $proxpass "http://0.0.0.0:{{ lemmy_port }}";
      }
      proxy_pass $proxpass;

      rewrite ^(.+)/+$ $1 permanent;

      # Send actual client IP upstream
      proxy_set_header X-Real-IP $remote_addr;
      proxy_set_header Host $host;
      proxy_set_header X-Forwarded-For $proxy_add_x_forwarded_for;
    }

    # backend
    location ~ ^/(api|docs|pictrs|feeds|nodeinfo|.well-known) {
      proxy_pass http://0.0.0.0:{{ lemmy_port }};
      proxy_http_version 1.1;
      proxy_set_header Upgrade $http_upgrade;
      proxy_set_header Connection "upgrade";

      # Rate limit
      limit_req zone=lemmy_ratelimit burst=30 nodelay;

      # Add IP forwarding headers
      proxy_set_header X-Real-IP $remote_addr;
      proxy_set_header Host $host;
      proxy_set_header X-Forwarded-For $proxy_add_x_forwarded_for;
    }


    # Redirect pictshare images to pictrs
    location ~ /pictshare/(.*)$ {
      return 301 /pictrs/image/$1;
    }

    location /iframely/ {
      proxy_pass http://0.0.0.0:8061/;
      proxy_set_header X-Real-IP $remote_addr;
      proxy_set_header Host $host;
      proxy_set_header X-Forwarded-For $proxy_add_x_forwarded_for;
    }
}

# Anonymize IP addresses
# https://www.supertechcrew.com/anonymizing-logs-nginx-apache/
map $remote_addr $remote_addr_anon {
  ~(?P<ip>\d+\.\d+\.\d+)\.    $ip.0;
  ~(?P<ip>[^:]+:[^:]+):       $ip::;
  127.0.0.1                   $remote_addr;
  ::1                         $remote_addr;
  default                     0.0.0.0;
}
log_format main '$remote_addr_anon - $remote_user [$time_local] "$request" '
'$status $body_bytes_sent "$http_referer" "$http_user_agent"';
access_log /var/log/nginx/access.log main;