Hi, My name is Aslan. I'm a design technologist. I'm not a particularly good developer or sysadmin but I dabble in running cloud apps for my own personal needs on a homelab server. I wanted to set up Apache Guacamole so that I could manage my homelab server remotely while I'm away from home. I can ssh in of course, but sometimes it would be nice to have access to a GUI.
My homelab server already has Nextcloud and an nginx proxy server installed on it. I tried following a combination of these tutorials to install Guac on my homelab server: https://www.linuxbabe.com/ubuntu/apache-guacamole-remote-desktop-ubuntu-20-04 https://www.howtoforge.com/how-to-install-and-configure-guacamole-on-ubuntu-1804/ When I visit http://remote.aslanfrench.work:8080/guacamole/#/ from the homelab server I can see the Guac login. When I try to login it stalls out on me. When I try to access that url from my laptop it hangs and does not work. Here is my nginx conf: ``` > server { > listen 80; > listen [::]:80; > > # ## ssl cert location > # location /.well-known/acme-challenge { > # root /var/www/letsencrypt; > # default_type "text/plain"; > # try_files $uri =404; > # } > > server_name remote.aslanfrench.work; > access_log /var/log/nginx/guac_access.log; > > error_log /var/log/nginx/guac_error.log; > > # reroute all other traffice to the 443 port > location / { > return 301 <a href="https://$server_name:443;";>https:// > $server_name:443; > } > > } > > > # # HTTPS stuff > server { > listen 443 ssl http2 default_server; > listen [::]:443 ssl http2 default_server; > server_name remote.aslanfrench.work; > > access_log /var/log/nginx/guacamole.access.log main; > error_log /var/log/nginx/guacamole.error.log warn; > > # root /var/www/guacamole; > # index index.html; > > location /guacamole/ { > proxy_pass http://remote.aslanfrench.work:8080/guacamole/; > proxy_buffering off; > proxy_http_version 1.1; > proxy_set_header X-Forwarded-For $proxy_add_x_forwarded_for; > proxy_set_header Upgrade $http_upgrade; > proxy_set_header Connection $http_connection; > # access_log off; > } > } > > ``` > That conf is based off of the nextcloud conf I'm using and the official Guac manual. I successfully can access the root page commented out from any external computer so I know that the proxy is at least working on some level correctly. Generally speaking though that's something I'm kind of confused about? I don't know anything about tomcat. The way the nginx proxy works is pretty self explanatory I feel with most stuff. Nextcloud is PHP. so you just point the nextcloud conf towards /var/www/Nextcloud and the index.php does the rest. But what is the guacamole conf in the nginx supposed to be pointing towards? "Where" in my filesystem is Guac located? I know "where" nextcloud is located but I don't get how that works with Guac. Is that the .war file? That's the guac webapp I guess? How does the nginx know where that is located if I don't specify that anywhere in the conf file? It apparently does since I can access guac's front locally (though maybe that's not quite right since it's not accessible externally) Anyway, lots of questions here, and I def would appreciate any troubleshooting tips anyone could provide. *____**_**_* *Aslan French* *jackalope.tech* <http://jackalope.tech> | Design Technologist
