safe ESP8266 webserver / websockets internet access
Posted: Sat Jun 04, 2016 12:42 pmI just thought I'd drop a line on the 'holy grail' solution that I've worked through and come up with to enable public internet access to my ESP12F using nginx on linux (NAS device on the local LAN) as a reverse SSL caching proxy.
I've got both the ESP8266WebServer and the links2004/arduinoWebSockets library included in my project and I wanted to find a way to safely open up access to the device to the internet. I've attached a working nginx SSL reverse proxy configuration file which is tested and working on nginx v1.10.0 and the SSL cert I used is a self generated Let's Encrypt SSL cert which is recognized and accepted by all modern browsers / decent operating systems.
There's also a little video showing it in action here working: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pm_68Y3dXwk
I've got both the ESP8266WebServer and the links2004/arduinoWebSockets library included in my project and I wanted to find a way to safely open up access to the device to the internet. I've attached a working nginx SSL reverse proxy configuration file which is tested and working on nginx v1.10.0 and the SSL cert I used is a self generated Let's Encrypt SSL cert which is recognized and accepted by all modern browsers / decent operating systems.
There's also a little video showing it in action here working: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pm_68Y3dXwk