Listmonk Installation Guide with Caddy reverse proxy and SSL certificate

This guide will help you install Listmonk with proper SSL certification on your domain using Docker.

Prerequisites

• An EC2 instance or any cloud instance
• Git installed on your instance
• Docker installed on your instance

Steps

1. Create a Listmonk Folder and Navigate Into It

   Open your terminal and run the following commands to create a new directory named 'listmonk' and navigate into it:

   mkdir listmonk && cd listmonk

   Do not use sudo to create directory

2. Clone the Repository Inside the Listmonk Folder

   Run the following command to clone the repository into the 'listmonk' directory:

   git clone git@github.com:samyogdhital/listmonk-caddy-reverse-proxy.git .

3. Follow Listmonk manual installation on production

   Head over to this repo and follow the usal installation https://listmonk.app/docs/installation/#manual-docker-install_1

4. Make changes to Caddyfile inside ./caddy/Caddyfile

   Provide your email and the domain where you will be hosting your listmonk instance. (It can be subdomain as well)

Conclusion

Now for the final step run all the containers in detached mode and you should be good to go.

docker compose up -d

You should now have Listmonk running on your EC2 instance with Lets encrypt SSL certificate.