# Unable to setup proxy between pmm-client and server

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**Created:** [December 27, 2020, 11:06am UTC](https://forums.percona.com/t/unable-to-setup-proxy-between-pmm-client-and-server/8443 "2020-12-27T11:06:08Z")\
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@nhadsall you don’t need the certs to be present in the container, you can mount the certificate path to the container itself. The certificates are present in `/srv/nginx`:

```nohighlight
$ ls -la /srv/nginx/
total 24
drwxr-xr-x. 2 percona percona 115 Dec 1 2020 .
drwxr-x--x. 12 percona percona 272 Jan 26 14:29 ..
-rw-r--r--. 1 percona percona 6018 Dec 1 2020 ca-certs.pem
-rw-r--r--. 1 percona percona 137 Dec 1 2020 certificate.conf
-rw-r--r--. 1 percona percona 977 Dec 1 2020 certificate.crt
-rw-r--r--. 1 percona percona 1704 Dec 1 2020 certificate.key
-rw-r--r--. 1 percona percona 424 Dec 1 2020 dhparam.pem

```

So, for example you could use `--volume certsvol:/srv/nginx`.

At the time any of the certs change, you can either restart the container, or use a less approach such as:

```nohighlight
$ docker exec -it pmm-server supervisorctl restart nginx

```

This then leaves you to provide your certificates however you wish to, including integrating `certbot`, or similar, outside of the container. In addition, with the certificates outside of the container, you can check validity without needing to connect, such as:

```nohighlight
$ openssl x509 -in /path/mounted/to/srv/nginx/certificate.crt -noout -dates

```

Hopefully, some of that helps you simplify your setup.

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