This post is mainly to help reader to deploy an IPFS service with nginx proxy which provides basic authorizations.

A quick start is the following steps.

Some basic requirements:

Docker should already be installed on your computer.
Basic Linux terminal skills.

Create files

Create folder
```
$ mkdir ipfs
$ cd ipfs
```

Create docker-compose.yaml

version: '3'

services:
  ipfs:
    container_name: ipfs
    image: ipfs/kubo:latest
    volumes:
      - ./data/:/data/ipfs/
    ports:
      - '8080:8080'
    restart: always
  nginx:
    container_name: nginx
    image: nginx:latest
    ports:
      - '5001:5001'
    volumes:
      - './default.conf:/etc/nginx/conf.d/default.conf:ro'
      - './htpasswd:/htpasswd:ro'
    restart: always

Create htpasswd

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Create default.conf

server {
    listen 5001;
    server_name _;
    client_max_body_size 2048000m;
    location / {
        proxy_pass http://ipfs:5001;
        proxy_set_header Host $host;
        proxy_set_header X-Real-IP $remote_addr;
        proxy_set_header X-Forwarded-Proto $scheme;
        proxy_set_header X-Forwarded-For $proxy_add_x_forwarded_for;
        auth_basic           "Administrator’s Area";
        auth_basic_user_file /htpasswd;
    }
}

Init IPFS Data

Make data folder
```
$ mkdir -p ./data/
```
Init data
```
$ IPFS_PATH="$(pwd)/data/" ipfs init
```

Set IPFS config

Set Addresses

$ IPFS_PATH="$(pwd)/data/" ipfs config --json Addresses.API '"/ip4/0.0.0.0/tcp/5001"'
$ IPFS_PATH="$(pwd)/data/" ipfs config --json Addresses.Gateway '"/ip4/0.0.0.0/tcp/8080"'

Set API

$ IPFS_PATH="$(pwd)/data/" ipfs config --json API.HTTPHeaders.Access-Control-Allow-Origin '["*"]'
$ IPFS_PATH="$(pwd)/data/" ipfs config --json API.HTTPHeaders.Access-Control-Allow-Methods '["GET", "PUT", "POST"]'

Start IPFS

$ docker-compose up -d