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## Advanced usage (with the nginx and docker-gen containers)
**nginx-proxy** can also be run as two separate containers using the [nginx-proxy/**docker-gen**](https://github.com/nginx-proxy/docker-gen) image and the official [**nginx**](https://hub.docker.com/_/nginx/) image. You may want to do this to prevent having the docker socket bound to a publicly exposed container service (ie avoid mounting the docker socket in the nginx exposed container).
Please read and try [basic usage](./Basic-usage.md), and **validate that you have a working two containers setup** before using the three containers setup. In addition to the steps described there, running **nginx-proxy** as two separate containers with **acme-companion** requires the following:
1) Download and mount the template file [nginx.tmpl](https://github.com/nginx-proxy/nginx-proxy/blob/main/nginx.tmpl) into the **docker-gen** container. You can get the nginx.tmpl file with a command like:
```
curl https://raw.githubusercontent.com/nginx-proxy/nginx-proxy/main/nginx.tmpl > /path/to/nginx.tmpl
```
2) Use the `com.github.nginx-proxy.docker-gen` label on the **docker-gen** container, or explicitly set the `NGINX_DOCKER_GEN_CONTAINER` environment variable on the **acme-companion** container to the name or id of the **docker-gen** container (we'll use the later method in the example).
3) Declare `/etc/nginx/conf.d` as a volume on the nginx container so that it can be shared with the **docker-gen** container.
Example:
### Step 1 - nginx
* Start nginx [(official image)](https://hub.docker.com/_/nginx/) with the required volumes:
```shell
$ docker run --detach \
--name nginx-proxy \
--publish 80:80 \
--publish 443:443 \
--volume conf:/etc/nginx/conf.d \
--volume html:/usr/share/nginx/html \
--volume certs:/etc/nginx/certs \
nginx
```
### Step 2 - docker-gen
* Start the **docker-gen** container with the shared volumes (with `--volume-from`), the template file and the docker socket:
```shell
$ docker run --detach \
--name nginx-proxy-gen \
--volumes-from nginx-proxy \
--volume /path/to/nginx.tmpl:/etc/docker-gen/templates/nginx.tmpl:ro \
--volume /var/run/docker.sock:/tmp/docker.sock:ro \
nginxproxy/docker-gen \
-notify-sighup nginx-proxy -watch -wait 5s:30s /etc/docker-gen/templates/nginx.tmpl /etc/nginx/conf.d/default.conf
```
Note that you must pass the exact name of the **nginx** container to **docker-gen** `-notify-sighup` argument (here `nginx-proxy`).
### Step 3 - acme-companion
* Start the **acme-companion** container with the `NGINX_DOCKER_GEN_CONTAINER` environment variable correctly set:
```shell
$ docker run --detach \
--name nginx-proxy-acme \
--volumes-from nginx-proxy \
--volume /var/run/docker.sock:/var/run/docker.sock:ro \
--volume acme:/etc/acme.sh \
--env "NGINX_DOCKER_GEN_CONTAINER=nginx-proxy-gen" \
--env "DEFAULT_EMAIL=mail@yourdomain.tld" \
nginxproxy/acme-companion
```
### Step 4 - proxyed container(s)
* Once the three containers are up, start any containers to be proxied as described in [basic usage](./Basic-usage.md).
```shell
$ docker run --detach \
--name your-proxyed-app \
--env "VIRTUAL_HOST=subdomain.yourdomain.tld" \
--env "LETSENCRYPT_HOST=subdomain.yourdomain.tld" \
nginx
```
If you are experiencing issues with this setup, fall back to the [basic setup](./Basic-usage.md). The advanced setup is not meant to be obligatory.