docker-notion-proxy

Docker image for a Nginx based reverse proxy for Notion so.

Notion.so does not allow custom domain names so far (maybe soon?). The idea of this project is to provide a Docker image to easily create a reverse proxy to Notion.

Your DNS entry can point toward this reverse proxy and it will proxy pass to Notion.

How to use

docker run -d --name notion-proxy \
    -p 80:80 \
    -e HOST=example.com \
    -e PROTO=http \ 
    -e REDIRECT=What-s-New-157765353f2c4705bd45474e5ba8b46c \
    lobre/notion-proxy

You domain name example.com should resolve to the server where this container is started.

Then try to browser http://example.com.

You can as well have a look to the docker-compose.yml file for an alternative usage.

Caution

This will only work for public Notion pages.

This does not work with custom ports

You cannot bind a non http port to the Docker container. If doing so, the Notion Javascript code will detect a mismatch when checking the base URL and the page won't show up.

So it is important to have a -p 80:80 or -p 443:443 on the container.

We cannot hide/rewrite the URL for a clean root domain.

For the What's New public page for instance, we cannot have it directly under http://example.com. We need the appended URI: http://example.com/What-s-New-157765353f2c4705bd45474e5ba8b46c.

The reason is that Notion relies a lot on Javascript. The routing to a public page seems to be done dynamically using Javascript with window.location.href (actual browser URL) to parse which page should be displayed. So when pointing to http://example.com, it will understand that it should display http://www.notion.so even if we proxy_pass to a custom page.

In order to still have a special page attached to the root domain, you can add the REDIRECT environment variable to set up a redirection on the root domain. So with our example after having set REDIRECT=What-s-New-157765353f2c4705bd45474e5ba8b46c, hitting http://example.com will 302 redirect to http://example.com/What-s-New-157765353f2c4705bd45474e5ba8b46c.