# Advanced Guides

- [Advanced Guides - Overview](https://docs.bluebubbles.app/server/advanced/advanced-guides-overview.md): Here you will find more advanced guides for using BlueBubbles
- [Generating an SSL Certificate using CertBot](https://docs.bluebubbles.app/server/advanced/generating-an-ssl-certificate-using-certbot.md): Learn how you can generate an SSL Certificate using CertBot for BlueBubbles. This is especially useful for dynamic DNS setups.
- [Disabling SIP on Unofficial Macs for the Private API](https://docs.bluebubbles.app/server/advanced/disabling-sip-on-unofficial-macs-for-the-private-api.md)
- [Registering a Phone Number with your iMessage Account](https://docs.bluebubbles.app/server/advanced/registering-a-phone-number-with-your-imessage-account.md): This page will guide you on how you can link your phone number with your iMessage account. By default, BlueBubbles will use your iCloud email to send iMessages.
- [macOS Virtualization](https://docs.bluebubbles.app/server/advanced/macos-virtualization.md): Here, you will find guides on virtualizing macOS, whether that be in a virtual machine, or in a docker container.
- [Running a macOS VM](https://docs.bluebubbles.app/server/advanced/macos-virtualization/running-a-macos-vm.md)
- [Deploying macOS in VMWare on Windows (Full Guide)](https://docs.bluebubbles.app/server/advanced/macos-virtualization/running-a-macos-vm/deploying-macos-in-vmware-on-windows-full-guide.md)
- [Enabling iMessage in a VM](https://docs.bluebubbles.app/server/advanced/macos-virtualization/running-a-macos-vm/enabling-imessage-in-a-vm.md): How to enable iMessage after successfully creating an unofficial Mac device
- [External Guides](https://docs.bluebubbles.app/server/advanced/macos-virtualization/running-a-macos-vm/external-guides.md)
- [Running BlueBubbles in Docker-OSX](https://docs.bluebubbles.app/server/advanced/macos-virtualization/running-bluebubbles-in-docker-osx.md): This tutorial will show you how you can setup BlueBubbles in a Docker container, within a Linux host.
- [Configuring BlueBubbles as a Service](https://docs.bluebubbles.app/server/advanced/macos-virtualization/running-bluebubbles-in-docker-osx/configuring-bluebubbles-as-a-service.md): This guide will show you how to setup the BlueBubbles Docker container to run as a service on your Linux host. This is to make sure that the host starts up when your Linux host restarts.
- [BYO Proxy Service Guides](https://docs.bluebubbles.app/server/advanced/byo-proxy-service-guides.md): Here you will find child guides for setting up BlueBubbles with a BYO (Bring Your Own) Proxy Service (Dynamic DNS).
- [Cloudflare with a Custom Domain](https://docs.bluebubbles.app/server/advanced/byo-proxy-service-guides/cloudflare-with-a-custom-domain.md)
- [Caddy & DuckDNS](https://docs.bluebubbles.app/server/advanced/byo-proxy-service-guides/caddy-and-duckdns.md): A way to get https when portforwarding with bluebubbles
- [Nginx Proxy Manager](https://docs.bluebubbles.app/server/advanced/byo-proxy-service-guides/nginx-proxy-manager.md): This guide will show you how to setup your own dynamic DNS using your own self-hosted server, running Nginx Proxy Manager
- [Nginx Manual Setup](https://docs.bluebubbles.app/server/advanced/byo-proxy-service-guides/nginx-manual-setup.md): If you want to perform a manual setup of Nginx, instead of using the Nginx Proxy Manager, here is a guide on how to do it. Big thanks to @JustBen in the BlueBubbles Discord, for putting this guide tog
- [Tailscale VPN Setup](https://docs.bluebubbles.app/server/advanced/byo-proxy-service-guides/tailscale-vpn-setup.md)
- [zrok Proxy Service](https://docs.bluebubbles.app/server/advanced/byo-proxy-service-guides/zrok-proxy.md)


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