How to Use Nginx Proxy Manager + Pi-hole for HTTPS Internal Services Behind an ISP Modem

If you’re stuck with the awful modem/router your ISP gave you and thought that meant you were doomed to ugly local IPs, weird ports, and browser certificate warnings forever… good news: you are absolutely not stuck.

You can use Nginx Proxy Manager Pi-hole HTTPS internal services with a totally basic ISP router and still get clean, real HTTPS URLs like:

Part 2: Set Up Nginx Proxy Manager on Proxmox with Cloudflare DNS & Pi-hole

In Part 2 of this series, we’re setting up Nginx Proxy Manager (NPM) inside Proxmox so we can start exposing our local services with clean HTTPS URLs and valid SSL certificates.

This is where the home lab starts feeling real.

Instead of accessing Home Assistant with something like:

• http://192.168.1.20:8123

…we’ll be able to use:

• https://ha.domain.com

And because we’re using Cloudflare DNS validation, we can issue a wildcard certificate for our domain and keep everything secure and polished.