On my server (Debian) I had nginx installed. Using this nginx I installed Wordpress (NOT in docker, but “directly”).
Nginx was used to run the wordpress using SSL, redirecting all Port 80s to 443 and in addition worked as reverse proxy for docker containers (nextcould, mail, …).
Everything worked fine.
At a point in time my debian complained it is too old and not supported anymore, so I upgraded it. (Now its Debian Buster).

I can make this map directive work:

I am running docker containers on windows local PC.
and set port forwarding on my local router to enable external entering.

I have an nginx config to match the host name as below

I have to intercept the response from the upstream before sending it to the client and if the response is 302 – I have to add a cookie.

Goal

I am seting up nginx for my web app and this is what my configuration looks like:

I am new to nginx, I am unable to change the nginx web server configuration to move the pterodactyl location from <example.com> to <example.com/panel> and add a server block for <example.com> for a separate site.

I run a few deployments on Nginx, today, exclusively while connected to a VPN and browsing on any chromium based browser, the connection will time out (if the subdomain is the only one available to nginx) or be redirected to a seperate subdomain and error out due to the certificate being incorrect.

I have the following Nginx configuration: