Self-hosted projects tagged “Reverse Proxy”

Caddy is a fast, extensible Go web server and reverse proxy with automatic HTTPS (ACME), HTTP/1.1, HTTP/2, and HTTP/3 support, and a JSON config API.

Apache-2.0Actively maintained

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Caddy Cloud+8

Traefik Proxy is a dynamic reverse proxy and load balancer that auto-discovers services from Docker, Kubernetes, and other providers, with HTTPS, routing, and observability built in.

MITActively maintained

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Traefik Cloud+7

Kong Gateway is a high-performance, cloud-native API gateway for routing, securing, and observing API traffic, with an extensible plugin system and Kubernetes support.

Apache-2.0Actively maintained

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Amazon API Gateway+7

Open-source self-hostable PaaS for deploying containerized applications and managing databases with Docker Compose, Traefik, monitoring, and backups.

Actively maintained

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Vercel+9

Nginx Proxy Manager is a web-based admin panel for managing Nginx reverse proxy hosts, redirects, streams, and Let’s Encrypt SSL certificates via Docker.

MITActively maintained

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NGINX Management Suite+6

Dokku is a self-hosted, Docker-based mini PaaS that lets you deploy Heroku-style apps via Git push, using buildpacks or Dockerfiles with plugin-managed services.

MITActively maintained

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Dokku Cloud+10

NGINX is a high-performance HTTP server and reverse proxy with caching, load balancing, TLS termination, and TCP/UDP proxying via a modular architecture.

BSD-2-ClauseActively maintained

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NGINX Management Suite+2

Open-source identity-based remote access platform combining WireGuard VPN and tunneled reverse proxy access with granular zero-trust controls.

Actively maintained

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Cloudflare Access+16

SafeLine is a self-hosted Web Application Firewall (WAF) and reverse proxy that defends web apps from SQL injection, XSS, bot abuse, and DDoS using ML-powered threat detection and configurable policies.

GPL-3.0Actively maintained

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Cloudflare Web Application Firewall (WAF)+7

Anubis is a lightweight web AI firewall that protects sites from AI crawlers and scraping bots using configurable request challenges and bot policies.

MITActively maintained

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Cloudflare Web Application Firewall (WAF)+10

CLI tool to create Cloudflare Tunnels and route traffic through Cloudflare’s edge.

Apache-2.0Actively maintained

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ngrok+10

OAuth2 Proxy is a reverse proxy and middleware that protects web apps with OAuth2/OIDC login and forwards authenticated user identity to upstream services.

MITActively maintained

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Cloudflare Access+14

webhook is a lightweight Go server for creating HTTP endpoints that trigger scripts or shell commands with rule-based request validation.

MITActively maintained

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Webhook.site+2

Self-hosted web interface to manage Nginx configs, reload safely, issue Let’s Encrypt certificates, view logs, monitor server stats, and manage multiple nodes.

AGPL-3.0Actively maintained

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NGINX Management Suite+4

BunkerWeb is an open-source WAF and NGINX-based reverse proxy to protect web apps and APIs with HTTPS automation, security policies, and extensible plugins.

AGPL-3.0Actively maintained

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Cloudflare Web Application Firewall (WAF)+10

Tyk Gateway is an open source, cloud-native API gateway for securing, managing, and scaling REST, GraphQL, gRPC, and TCP APIs with auth, rate limits, and policies.

Actively maintained

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Amazon API Gateway+6

Tinyauth is a lightweight auth middleware that adds a login screen, OAuth, or LDAP authentication in front of your apps via common reverse proxies.

AGPL-3.0Actively maintained

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Cloudflare Access+17

HAProxy is a fast, reliable reverse proxy and load balancer for TCP and HTTP applications, providing high availability, TLS termination, health checks, and traffic routing.

Actively maintained

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HAProxy Enterprise+10

Lura is a stateless, high-performance API gateway framework for building reverse proxies that aggregate, transform, and secure backend APIs via middleware and plugins.

Actively maintained

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Amazon API Gateway+9

Cosmos Cloud is a security-focused self-hosting platform that provides an app store, reverse proxy with automatic HTTPS, SSO/MFA, container management, backups, and monitoring.

Actively maintained

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Cloudron+18

Tinyproxy is a small, efficient HTTP/HTTPS proxy daemon for POSIX systems, designed for low resource usage with access controls, filtering, and optional reverse/transparent proxying.

GPL-2.0Actively maintained

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Charles Proxy+9

Organizr is a PHP-based homelab dashboard that organizes your self-hosted services into tabs, with user management and multiple authentication options.

GPL-3.0Actively maintained

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Heimdall Application Dashboard (LinuxServer.io)+9

Deploy and scale Docker Compose apps across multiple servers with automatic WireGuard networking, service discovery, load balancing, and HTTPS—without Kubernetes overhead.

Apache-2.0Actively maintained

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Railway+11

WeTTY provides browser-based terminal access to local shells or remote SSH hosts using xterm.js and WebSockets for responsive interactive sessions.

MITActively maintained

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Puter+5

A general-purpose HTTP reverse proxy and forwarding tool for homelabs, offering web UI, ACME/TLS, stream proxy, plugins and realtime monitoring.

AGPL-3.0Actively maintained

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ngrok+16

Pomerium is an identity-aware access proxy that provides zero trust, per-request authorization to internal web apps and services without a traditional VPN.

Apache-2.0Actively maintained

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Cloudflare Access+12

sish is an open-source Serveo/ngrok alternative that exposes local HTTP(S), WebSockets, and TCP services to the internet using SSH reverse tunnels.

MITActively maintained

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ngrok+3

High-performance reverse proxy and container orchestrator with Web UI, automatic Docker/Podman route discovery, idle-sleep, access control, and automated Let's Encrypt support.

Actively maintained

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Cloudflare Tunnel+19

High-performance reverse proxy for self-hosted apps with Web UI, Docker/Podman auto-routing, HTTPS via Let's Encrypt, access control, and OIDC/ForwardAuth support.

Actively maintained

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Traefik Cloud+5

Varnish Cache is a high-performance HTTP reverse proxy cache for accelerating web applications and APIs with flexible caching rules and detailed request logging.

Slowing down

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Cloudflare CDN+5