How to Install SWAG (Secure Web Application Gateway) on Elementary OS Latest

Introduction

This tutorial will guide you on how to install SWAG (Secure Web Application Gateway) on Elementary OS Latest. SWAG is a Docker container that provides SSL/TLS encryption, reverse proxy, and various web technologies to securely and easily host websites and applications. This tutorial will use the Docker container from linuxserver.io's Github repository.

Prerequisites

Before installing SWAG, you need to make sure you have the following prerequisites installed:

• Docker
• Docker Compose

If you haven't installed these prerequisites, follow the instructions from the Docker documentation.

Installation

1. Open the Terminal application in Elementary OS.
2. Clone the SWAG repository from Github:

git clone https://github.com/linuxserver/docker-swag.git

3. Navigate to the SWAG directory:

cd docker-swag

4. Copy the sample docker-compose.yml file to docker-compose.override.yml:

cp docker-compose.sample.yml docker-compose.override.yml

5. Edit the docker-compose.override.yml file to specify your email address and domain name:

nano docker-compose.override.yml

6. Find the line that starts with # - EMAIL=me@example.com and remove the # to uncomment the line.
7. Replace me@example.com with your email address, enclosed in quotes.
8. Find the line that starts with # - URL=example.com and remove the # to uncomment the line.
9. Replace example.com with your domain name, enclosed in quotes.
10. Save and close the file by pressing Ctrl + X, then Y, then Enter.
11. Start the Docker container using Docker Compose:

docker-compose up -d

12. SWAG is now installed and running. You can check its status by running:

docker ps

You should see a container named docker-swag.

Configuring SWAG

To configure SWAG, you can edit the docker-compose.override.yml file or create a new file called docker-compose.yml. This file specifies the settings for the SWAG container, such as the ports to listen on and the SSL/TLS certificates to use.

You can also mount volumes to the container to provide data or configuration files to your web applications. For example, to mount a volume from your host system to the container, add the following lines to your docker-compose.yml or docker-compose.override.yml file:

volumes:
  - /path/on/host:/path/on/container

Replace /path/on/host with the path to the directory or file on your host system, and /path/on/container with the path to the directory or file in the container.

Conclusion

In this tutorial, you learned how to install SWAG on Elementary OS Latest using Docker Compose. You also learned how to configure SWAG to listen on different ports and mount volumes to the container. With SWAG, you can host web applications securely and easily.

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