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Cloudflare Setup

Installed cloudflared

curl -L https://pkg.cloudflare.com/cloudflare-main.gpg | sudo tee /usr/share/keyrings/cloudflare-main.gpg
sudo apt install cloudflared

Logged in

cloudflared tunnel login

Created tunnel

cloudflared tunnel create nextcloud
# this gave me a tunnel id i used to configure the config file

Edit and Create Config file

sudo nano /etc/cloudflared/config.yml

Config.yml file contents

tunnel: YOUR_TUNNEL_ID
credentials-file: /etc/cloudflared/YOUR_TUNNEL_ID.json

ingress:
  - hostname: YOUR_DOMAIN.org
    service: http://localhost:80
  - service: http_status:404
//

Create record

Allows domain to be routed to the tunnel which is connected to my home-server

cloudflared tunnel route dns nextcloud YOUR_DOMAIN.org
# created a CNAME record in your Cloudflare DNS pointing your domain to the tunnel.

Running tunnel as a service

Starts automatically on a boot

sudo cloudflared service install
sudo systemctl start cloudflared
sudo systemctl enable cloudflared

Checking status

sudo systemctl status cloudflared
# tells user if tunneling and connection was successful