• Blue Iris & nginx reverse proxy

    Blue Iris… for the uninitialized is a CCTV viewing, recording, nearly-do-everything-CCTV application for analog, IP/digital, and usb based cameras. It sports a trendy web UI for viewing of the cameras added to the Blue Iris application. In this blog, will lay out the process to ensure nginx and BI plays (mostly) nice with Blue Iris web server. This article assumes the following… You have a wildcard based SSL certificate created and in-use/active for the reverse proxy access domain name. You are configuring this as a sub-domain (e.g.; SomeSubDomain.potatoforinter.net) and not as a file path (e.g.; potatoforinter.net/blueiris/) to a domain. You’re running Blue Iris version 5 or newer. nginx is running 1.17.x or newer. nginx will internally route (user doesn’t see this happen!) the HTTPS request (be it lan or wan) to a

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