Lab Server Deploy

Trigger

When the user wants to deploy a new service (WebDAV, web app, API, etc.) on their lab server — the 4×A10 machine managed by 1Panel.

Server Profile

Public Access Model

User's PC ──→ 学校公网 IP:8080 ──→ 服务器 nginx (OpenResty) ──→ backend container
                                                            ──→ another container

• No direct WAN IP; school NAT forwards only port 8080
• FRP only carries SSH (22 → remotePort 35043)
• All HTTP services must go through the OpenResty nginx on port 8080, routed by domain or path

Existing 1Panel Site Configs

Nginx configs live inside the Docker container 1Panel-openresty-Z8Gm at /usr/local/openresty/nginx/conf/conf.d/:

Nginx main config at /usr/local/openresty/nginx/conf/nginx.conf.

Deployment Pattern

Step 0: Verify Docker mirror works

Before deploying anything, check the Docker daemon has working Chinese mirrors:

ssh host 'cat /etc/docker/daemon.json'
ssh host 'docker info | grep -A5 "Registry Mirrors"'

If only docker.1ms.run is present (unreliable), user should run:

sudo bash <(curl -sSL https://linuxmirrors.cn/docker.sh)

Note: linuxmirrors.cn/docker.sh is interactive and may NOT actually change mirrors (observed: still docker.1ms.run after running). If it fails, add mirrors manually to /etc/docker/daemon.json and sudo systemctl restart docker.

Docker Daemon HTTP Proxy (separate from mirrors!)

Shell's set -x HTTP_PROXY / export HTTP_PROXY only affects curl/wget, NOT docker pull. The Docker daemon pulls images — it has its own independent proxy config. Verify with official docs (Context7: /docker/docs) before making claims about daemon behavior.

Daemon proxy via daemon.json (Docker 23.0+, cleanest):

{
  "registry-mirrors": ["https://docker.1ms.run"],
  "http-proxy": "http://127.0.0.1:7890",
  "https-proxy": "http://127.0.0.1:7890",
  "no-proxy": "localhost,127.0.0.1,docker.1ms.run"
}

Then sudo systemctl restart docker.

Verify: docker info | grep -i proxy or sudo systemctl show --property=Environment docker

When to use: Docker mirrors are slow/unreliable (common on school network), but Clash proxy is fast (curl Google works). Add daemon proxy to fall back to direct Docker Hub pull through Clash.

Step 1: Deploy Docker container (via SSH)

Use single SSH call + base64 piping to avoid OpenFRP rate limits and fish shell issues:

# Encode commands locally
CMDS=$(echo 'docker rm -f <name> 2>/dev/null
docker pull <image>:<tag>
docker run -d --name <name> --restart always \
  -p 127.0.0.1:<host-port>:<container-port> \
  -v /data/<name>:/data \
  <image>:<tag>
sleep 5
docker logs <name> 2>&1 | head -20
docker ps --filter name=<name>' | base64 -w0)

# Single SSH call (wait 30-60s after last SSH)
sleep 30 && ssh host "echo $CMDS | base64 -d | bash"

Key: bind to 127.0.0.1 only — nginx reverse proxies to it, no direct exposure needed.

Step 2: Add nginx reverse proxy (1Panel Web UI — REQUIRED)

⚠️ CRITICAL: Do NOT manually write nginx config files to conf.d/ or proxy/*.conf.
1Panel's internal site manager overrides or ignores manually-created nginx configs. Even if nginx -t passes, requests get routed to the 1Panel welcome page instead of the backend. The ONLY reliable method is through the 1Panel web UI.

Open 1Panel Web Panel → 网站 → 创建网站 → 反向代理：

Click 确认 — 1Panel auto-generates the conf.d server block, proxy config, log directories, and reloads nginx.

If you need WebDAV-specific tweaks (large uploads, no buffering), edit the proxy config via 1Panel's web editor for that website, or docker exec into the container and edit /www/sites/<domain>/proxy/*.conf, then reload.

For a new subdomain: user must add DNS record in Cloudflare pointing to the school's public IP. See Cloudflare DNS section.

Step 3: Verify

curl -s -o /dev/null -w '%{http_code}' http://<domain>:8080/

SSH Pitfalls

Fish fastfetch banner + quote escaping breaks non-interactive SSH

The fish config has fastfetch in ~/.config/fish/config.fish, printing a massive system-info banner on every login. This corrupts stdout. Worse, fish's quote parsing intercepts nested quotes in bash -c wrappers, causing "fish: Unexpected end of string" errors.

Workarounds (in order of reliability):

1. Base64 pipe to bash (best — bypasses fish entirely):

   # Encode locally
   echo 'cmd1; cmd2; cmd3' | base64 -w0
   # Decode on server
   ssh host 'echo BASE64STRING | base64 -d | bash'
   

2. Single command with RequestTTY=no (OK for short commands):

   ssh -o RequestTTY=no host 'cat /etc/docker/daemon.json'
   

3. Grep-filter the output:

   ssh host 'command' 2>/dev/null | grep -v "^│\|^┌\|^└\|^po@\|fastfetch"
   

4. Permanent fix (if user approves):

   ssh host "sed -i 's/^fastfetch/#fastfetch/' ~/.config/fish/config.fish"
   

OpenFRP connection rate limiting

OpenFRP free tier rate-limits connection frequency. After one non-interactive SSH session ends, subsequent connections get "Connection closed by ..." immediately. Wait 30–60 seconds between SSH terminal() calls. This is NOT a normal SSH issue — the tunnel itself throttles reconnection.

Docker pull slow on school network

Docker Hub is blocked/slow from Chinese school networks. The server's daemon.json may have a single mirror that's unreliable.

First step — configure proper mirrors (requires root, user runs once):

sudo bash <(curl -sSL https://linuxmirrors.cn/docker.sh)

This interactively sets up multiple Chinese Docker mirrors. After running, verify with:

cat /etc/docker/daemon.json | grep registry-mirrors

If linuxmirrors.cn script isn't desired, add mirrors manually to /etc/docker/daemon.json:

{
  "registry-mirrors": [
    "https://docker.1panel.live",
    "https://docker.m.daocloud.io",
    "https://hub.rat.dev"
  ]
}

After changing mirrors: sudo systemctl restart docker

Cloudflare DNS Management

DNS for for-people.cn is on Cloudflare. cloudflare-cli (npm package cfcli) is installed locally.

Setup (~/.cfcli.yml):

defaults:
    token: <cloudflare-api-token>
    domain: for-people.cn

Common commands:

cfcli ls                              # List all DNS records
cfcli -t A add <name>.ai 117.144.13.81   # Add A record (server, proxied=false)
cfcli find <name>                     # Find specific records
cfcli rm <name>                       # Remove a record

The API token needs Zone.DNS:Edit permission on for-people.cn. Create at https://dash.cloudflare.com/profile/api-tokens.

Server subdomain pattern: All server services use *.ai.for-people.cn → 117.144.13.81, proxied=false (WebDAV, API services can't go through CF proxy).

Service-Specific Notes

OpenList (WebDAV / cloud storage mount)

OpenList has a domestic native install script — prefer this over Docker. See references/openlist-deploy.md for full deploy guide including nginx reverse proxy, DNS, and TieZ client config.

Destination header compatibility (⚠️ easy to misdiagnose as WAF): OpenList's WebDAV MOVE endpoint rejects Destination headers with absolute URLs (e.g., http://domain/dav/path). It only accepts relative paths (/dav/path). Since TieZ sends absolute URLs, the nginx proxy MUST rewrite Destination before forwarding:

set_by_lua_block $rewritten_dest {
    local dest = ngx.var.http_destination
    if dest then
        dest = dest:gsub("^https?://[^/]+", "")
    end
    return dest or ""
}
proxy_set_header Destination $rewritten_dest;

Without this rewrite, MOVE returns 502 (not logged to error.log — nginx treats it as a valid upstream response). This is easy to confuse with WAF blocking.

General rule: For ANY service that offers a native install script with domestic CDN mirror, use that instead of Docker on this server. Docker Hub is unreliable from the school network.

User Preferences

Verify claims against official docs BEFORE stating them

When making assertions about tool behavior (e.g., "Docker daemon needs proxy configured via systemd"), always check Context7 or the official documentation first. Do not state confident technical claims from memory — verify them. The user will call out unverified claims with "你真的查过了吗" or "你没幻觉吧". Context7 has Docker docs at /docker/docs, 1Panel at /1panel-dev/docs, OpenList at /websites/doc_oplist, and many more.

Check config BEFORE operating, not after

When troubleshooting, always inspect the actual configuration state (e.g., cat /etc/docker/daemon.json, docker info | grep -i proxy) before proposing fixes. The user expects diagnosis before prescription. Avoid the pattern of suggesting fixes based on assumptions about what the config "should be."

Common Pitfalls

1Panel: Container-host networking (127.0.0.1 is the CONTAINER, not the host)

The 1Panel OpenResty runs inside a Docker container. When you set proxy_pass http://127.0.0.1:PORT, that 127.0.0.1 resolves to the container's localhost — not the host machine. Any service running natively on the host (not in Docker) must be accessed via:

• host.docker.internal — semantics are clear, but on Linux Docker requires a /etc/hosts entry (not auto-created like on Mac/Windows)
• 172.17.0.1 — the Docker bridge gateway IP (works universally but may change)

Setup (run once, inside the OpenResty container):

sudo docker exec 1Panel-openresty-Z8Gm sh -c 'grep -q host.docker.internal /etc/hosts || echo "172.17.0.1 host.docker.internal" >> /etc/hosts'

Then use http://host.docker.internal:PORT in all proxy_pass directives that target host-native services.

To find the Docker bridge IP:

ip addr show docker0 | grep inet
# → inet 172.17.0.1/16

Verification (from inside the container):

sudo docker exec 1Panel-openresty-Z8Gm curl -s -o /dev/null -w 'HTTP:%{http_code}\n' http://host.docker.internal:PORT/

1Panel: WAF methodWhite blocks non-standard HTTP methods (MOVE → 502, even with correct proxy config!)

This is the #1 silent killer for WebDAV on 1Panel. Even after fixing all proxy headers, MOVE/COPY/PROPFIND return 502 from external clients while working fine from inside the container. The culprit: 1Panel's WAF methodWhite rule (enabled by default) only allows GET/POST/HEAD through for external requests.

Diagnosis (from inside container, bypass WAF):

# This works (localhost skips some WAF checks)
sudo docker exec 1Panel-openresty-Z8Gm curl -sv -X MOVE -u user:pass -H "Destination: http://..." http://localhost:8080/path 2>&1 | grep "< HTTP"
# → 200 OK ← PROVES it's WAF, not nginx proxy config

Fix: WAF config is at /usr/local/openresty/1pwaf/data/conf/siteConfig.json inside the OpenResty container. The container has no python3, use resty (OpenResty's Lua):

sudo docker exec 1Panel-openresty-Z8Gm resty -e '
local cjson = require "cjson"
local f = io.open("/usr/local/openresty/1pwaf/data/conf/siteConfig.json", "r")
local cfg = cjson.decode(f:read("*a"))
f:close()
cfg.methodWhite.state = "off"
cfg.header.state = "off"
f = io.open("/usr/local/openresty/1pwaf/data/conf/siteConfig.json", "w")
f:write(cjson.encode(cfg))
f:close()
print("methodWhite=" .. cfg.methodWhite.state .. " header=" .. cfg.header.state)
'
sudo docker exec 1Panel-openresty-Z8Gm nginx -s reload

Alternative (1Panel Web UI): WAF → 网站设置 → 选站点 → 关掉 methodWhite、header、xss 三个规则，或者直接关闭该站点的 WAF 开关。WebDAV 有 HTTP Basic Auth，安全层面有保障。

Rules that block WebDAV:

1Panel: WAF config (siteConfig.json) structure

The global WAF config is at /usr/local/openresty/1pwaf/data/conf/siteConfig.json inside the container. Key sections:

• waf.state — master on/off
• methodWhite.state — blocks unknown HTTP methods (444 = drop connection)
• header.state — blocks suspicious headers
• xss.state — blocks XSS patterns
• args.state — blocks malicious query params

Per-site overrides (if any) would be in /usr/local/openresty/1pwaf/data/conf/sites.json.

1Panel: Default proxy config breaks WebDAV (MOVE → 502)

The 1Panel auto-generated reverse proxy has THREE issues that break WebDAV:

1. proxy_set_header Connection $http_connection; — passes the client's Connection header to the backend, breaking WebDAV MOVE
2. Missing Destination header forwarding — nginx does NOT forward the Destination header by default, which WebDAV MOVE/COPY operations require

Symptom: TieZ shows webdav MOVE ... failed: 502 Bad Gateway when trying to save files. Even after setting Connection "", MOVE still fails until Destination is forwarded.

Fix: Edit the proxy config inside the OpenResty container:

# ❌ Default 1Panel proxy config (breaks WebDAV)
proxy_set_header Connection $http_connection;
# Missing: Destination header not forwarded

# ✅ Required for WebDAV
proxy_set_header Connection "";
proxy_set_header Destination $http_destination;   # ← CRITICAL for MOVE/COPY
proxy_request_buffering off;
proxy_buffering off;
proxy_read_timeout 300s;
proxy_send_timeout 300s;
client_max_body_size 0;

Why Destination header is critical: WebDAV MOVE and COPY use the Destination header to specify the target path. nginx does NOT forward custom headers by default, so proxy_set_header Destination $http_destination is mandatory. Without it, the backend receives a MOVE request with no target, returning various errors.

The config file is at /www/sites/<domain>/proxy/root.conf inside the 1Panel-openresty-Z8Gm container. Edit via:

sudo docker exec 1Panel-openresty-Z8Gm sh -c "cat > /www/sites/<domain>/proxy/root.conf << 'EOF'
location ^~ / {
    proxy_pass http://127.0.0.1:<port>;
    proxy_set_header Host \$host;
    proxy_set_header X-Real-IP \$remote_addr;
    proxy_set_header X-Forwarded-For \$proxy_add_x_forwarded_for;
    proxy_set_header X-Forwarded-Proto \$scheme;
    proxy_http_version 1.1;
    proxy_set_header Upgrade \$http_upgrade;
    proxy_set_header Connection \"\";
    client_max_body_size 0;
    proxy_request_buffering off;
    proxy_read_timeout 300s;
    proxy_send_timeout 300s;
}
EOF"

Then nginx -t and nginx -s reload.

Note: $host, $remote_addr etc. must be escaped as \$host when inside sh -c "...".

1Panel: Writes to container paths must use docker exec

tee /usr/local/openresty/nginx/conf/conf.d/file.conf writes to the host filesystem, not the Docker container. For nginx configs inside the 1Panel OpenResty container, always use docker exec -i <container> tee <path> or docker exec <container> sh -c "cat > <path>".

Fish heredoc alternative for sh -c

sudo docker exec <container> sh -c "cat > file << 'EOF' ... EOF" works because sh (not fish) handles the heredoc. The outer "..." from fish passes the whole block to sh.

1Panel: Manual nginx configs silently ignored

Writing config files directly to conf.d/ or proxy/*.conf does NOT work. Even though nginx -t passes and nginx -s reload shows no errors, 1Panel's internal site manager routes requests to its own default page instead of the backend. Observed: manually created sync.ai.for-people.cn.conf + proxy/openlist.conf passed syntax check but all requests returned "Welcome to 1Panel". Solution: always use 1Panel Web UI → 网站 → 创建网站 → 反向代理.

fish shell: && / || don't work

fish uses ; and and ; or instead of bash's && and ||. Also set -x VAR val instead of export VAR=val. 2>/dev/null works in fish but piping behavior differs.

# ❌ bash syntax (broken in fish)
cmd1 && cmd2
cmd1 2>/dev/null || cmd3

# ✅ fish syntax
cmd1; and cmd2
cmd1 2>/dev/null; or cmd3

CRITICAL: Every command given to the user for their SSH session MUST be fish-compatible. The lab server's default shell is fish and most users won't switch to bash. If you give bash syntax, the user will copy-paste and it will fail.

fish shell: wildcard globbing differences

Fish's * glob fails if no files match (bash treats it literally). Use . instead:

# ❌ Fails in fish if dir is empty
sudo cp -a /src/* /dst/

# ✅ Works in fish
sudo cp -a /src/. /dst/

fish shell: heredoc not supported

Fish does not support bash-style cat > file << 'EOF' ... EOF. Use echo '...' | tee instead, or base64 piping for complex configs.

fish shell: quoting for docker exec

Fish treats $host inside single quotes literally. Use double quotes around the entire argument to docker exec bash -c "...":

Reference Files

• references/webdav-alternatives.md — Self-hosted and free WebDAV alternatives to 坚果云
• references/openlist-deploy.md — OpenList native deploy guide (no Docker needed)