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      PiBa @bensz
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      @bensz
      Might be a browser cache that remembers the redirect? Have you tried a different browser? Also have you tried disabling the 'webgui-redirect' from advanced settings?

      No need to portforward when using haproxy, it can listen on your wan-ip directly, do need regular firewall rules to allow the traffic though.. And are you sure its listening properly according to diagnostics/sockets?

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        bensz
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        Hello and thanks for reply
        to yours questions:
        It's not a browser cache, I try with a test website like webpagetest.org
        I tried with disabling redirect, but no changes
        You're right for NAT, I disabled the NAT rule and keep the firewall rule
        How can I be sure it's listening properly?

        Thanks
        Benoit

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          PiBa @bensz
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          @bensz
          In pfSense Diagnostics/Sockets page you can see which processes are listening on :443 (and :80 perhaps as well?), that should only be haproxy. The webgui nginx server should only be listening on your alternately configured :4433 port.

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            bensz
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            Hi,
            I saw on sockets, everything seems fine, haproxy is earing wan_ip:80 and wan_ip:443.
            The problem is this website says it doesn't see http page and I want to install let's encrypt certificate and it says no connection to http.
            It's strange, but from the inside, that works correctly.
            Nginx wait on port 4433.
            thanks
            Benoit

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              PiBa @bensz
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              @bensz said in problem configuring HAproxy with subdomains:

              this website says it doesn't see http page

              Umm?

              Where do you want to run the let's-encrypt client? On pfSense for haproxy's use? Do you forward the acme-challenge request to the correct place for the LE servers to see the file? How do you have haproxy configured? Can you share the haproxy.cfg ? (obfuscate IP, domainname, stuff if desired)

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                bensz
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                I want to run let's encrypt on the server in the subdomain.
                The master domain is zelec.homelinux.net, the subdomain is dolizelec.zelec.homelinux.net. I use cerbot to install LE certificate.
                it reply:
                root@dolizelec:~# certbot --apache
                Saving debug log to /var/log/letsencrypt/letsencrypt.log
                Plugins selected: Authenticator apache, Installer apache

                Which names would you like to activate HTTPS for?


                1: dolizelec.zelec.homelinux.net


                Select the appropriate numbers separated by commas and/or spaces, or leave input
                blank to select all options shown (Enter 'c' to cancel): 1
                Requesting a certificate for dolizelec.zelec.homelinux.net
                Performing the following challenges:
                http-01 challenge for dolizelec.zelec.homelinux.net
                Enabled Apache rewrite module
                Waiting for verification...
                Challenge failed for domain dolizelec.zelec.homelinux.net
                http-01 challenge for dolizelec.zelec.homelinux.net
                Cleaning up challenges
                Some challenges have failed.

                IMPORTANT NOTES:

                • The following errors were reported by the server:

                  Domain: dolizelec.zelec.homelinux.net
                  Type: connection
                  Detail: Fetching
                  http://dolizelec.zelec.homelinux.net/.well-known/acme-challenge/MIrPxgDyeG5K6h4UqLLbdHMz-YCnzJYlih5dCFHnsfU:
                  Timeout during connect (likely firewall problem)

                  To fix these errors, please make sure that your domain name was
                  entered correctly and the DNS A/AAAA record(s) for that domain
                  contain(s) the right IP address. Additionally, please check that
                  your computer has a publicly routable IP address and that no
                  firewalls are preventing the server from communicating with the
                  client. If you're using the webroot plugin, you should also verify
                  that you are serving files from the webroot path you provided.

                [0_1610661081568_haproxy.cfg](Uploading 0%) haproxy.txt

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                  PiBa @bensz
                  last edited by

                  @bensz
                  have you made a firewall rule on the wan to allow tcp access from any to wanip:80 ?

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                    bensz
                    last edited by

                    Is that correct as I've done

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                      PiBa @bensz
                      last edited by

                      @bensz
                      Yes

                      Dolizelec Default Page
                      It works!
                      
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                        bensz
                        last edited by

                        Thank you,
                        I'll continue to search with certbot why it doesn't want to work.
                        Thanks again
                        Benoit

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                          PiBa @bensz
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                          @bensz
                          So now you should be able to use acme to get a certificate, after that the https site should be configured with it..

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                            PiBa @bensz
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                            @bensz said in problem configuring HAproxy with subdomains:

                            search with certbot why it doesn't want to work.

                            Previously you got the message "Timeout during connect (likely firewall problem)" .. I think that should be solved now.. So what is Certbot / LEservers saying now for error.?

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                              bensz
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                              certbot reply

                              • The following errors were reported by the server:

                                Domain: dolizelec.zelec.homelinux.net
                                Type: unauthorized
                                Detail: Invalid response from
                                http://dolizelec.zelec.homelinux.net/.well-known/acme-challenge/_bWOWkqCKIrs7bOzwJbxGLfmetEfGCG6phCO8q4CqdY
                                [92.188.16.194]: "<!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//IETF//DTD HTML
                                2.0//EN">\n<html><head>\n<title>404 Not
                                Found</title>\n</head><body>\n<h1>Not Found</h1>\n<p"

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                                bensz
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                                Hello,
                                I solved things with certbot, but now my problem is port 443 goes to pfsense webgui instead of my haproxy backend.
                                I don't understand why
                                Thanks

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                                  PiBa @bensz
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                                  @bensz
                                  Webgui is still configured on :4433?
                                  Is haproxy still the only service listening on :443 ?
                                  Is haproxy configured to forward traffic to pfSense webgui with some backend, maybe a acl doesnt match properly and sends the traffic to that backend then?
                                  Do you have a nat rule that points 443 traffic to the webgui port?

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                                    bensz
                                    last edited by bensz

                                    Hi,
                                    Webgui is on port 4433
                                    As I know haproxy is the only service listening 443
                                    there's no backend to webgui. For the moment, I have 2 frontend 1 for port 80 and 1 for port 443. and 2 backend for rhe same reason.
                                    I use a NAT rule for 443 but il's for my old server, and I disable it for test.
                                    My new server (in a subdomain) and my old server (with NAT) use apache. And when I try to certificate with LE, the reply is a nginx server reply in 443. As I don't have any nginx server, I suppose it's the webgui which is served by Nginx.

                                    Thanks

                                    Here my haprowy.cfg if that can help
                                    haproxy.txt

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                                      PiBa @bensz
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                                      @bensz said in problem configuring HAproxy with subdomains:

                                      the reply is a nginx server reply in 443

                                      That might be, but the pfSense webgui does not seem the send the <!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC which the certbot error shows, so if it is nginx then its a different nginx server than that running on pfSense.. i doubt its finding its way to the webgui.. your Apache server however does send that doctype when requested for a page that does not exist.. I think the certbot>letsencrypt request does properly land on the Apache server but maybe the token file was just not placed in the correct subfolder?

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                                        bensz
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                                        You're right, I delete certbot and install a selfsignated certificate. That works correctly. The problem come from LE. As the server is empty, I will reinstall it.
                                        Thank you for your help
                                        Benoit

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