How to Install and Setup Traefik with Cloudflare Using Your Own Domain 

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Your tutorial is EXCELLENT! From your demo, I was able to build a load balancer and have local sub-subdomains that connect to my global domain. Thank you!!

I stumbled upon this presentation three years after its creation. But, I still think that this one of the best Traefik tutorials by far. Thank you for sharing your time and expertise with us.

hey this video is still relevant in 2023 .... great insights and tips esp for gotchsa! thanks so much

Thorough and well put. It's good that you explain every step and also add bonus information. Keep up the good work.

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Brilliant, thank you. This may be the solution to my research of the last 2 weeks all in one video. Will test this out tomorrow. My brain needs a break first.

Thank you so much for this detailes and easy to understand tutorial! I was trying to get this to work for more than a week and with your help it was really easy! Great work!

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Congratulations for 10k milestones, I don’t even know you’re using Linux every time this is brilliant! :D

I've been trying to understand Traefik for a while now and this was such a good walk through.. thank you for making this!!!

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Thanks for the tutorial. It's the only one that worked for me, even if it is 3 years old.

Thanks man, you have no idea how much this has saved me from lots of frustration, God bless..

Congrats to 10k! Always love to watch your tutorials. I've set up traefik today and it works like a charm. Thank you. I have exposed a couple of services to the internet behind a login but I'm concerned about brute force attack. Do you use fail2ban for your docker container? If so, are you going to make a video about on how to set it up? Thanks

This is awesome! I hope I can get this to work.

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Great tutorial

Thank you for all the tutorials you put out. I'm trying to take this a step further and access my music from outside the network using the airsonic or a subsonic app. Can you create a video showing how?

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new and confused.... will try again.... thanks, kai

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NICE!!!!!! Thanks a ton

Thanks for the video. I've moved over to using Cloudflare tunnel now, and for some reason struggling with sorting that out + traefik 2. (I don't believe it should be much of a difference re config) would love a video on setting up cloudflare tunnel to traefik and getting full SSL handled.

Thanks for posting this! I referenced it quite a bit when setting up a publicly available Ombi instance. Was end to end encryption set up with cloudflare to encrypt the traffic to the origin server in your example?

Awesome content and video! Congrats. Wonder if you've tried to set the SSL connection with cloudflare in a FULL SSL way, having the certificate in the traefik server with letsencrypt. That'd be a great addition to your content :)

Hey man, I just want to say this video is awesome i’m so close to reverse proxying ombi/overseer, but i’m not there yet. Https entrypoint not defined or not found the error is along those lines. If i set the entrypoint to web the subdomain opens the web portal. What an I doing wrong? I’ve used the overseerr and ombi documentation.

i have a SRV record below the C name do i need that ?

@dbtech . Thanks for the great article. I finally got Traefik setup with this. However am slightly confused on to setup SSL certs. With Full restrict mode on in CloudFlare

Thank you for all the OMV videos. Really help me a lot. I was wondering how do you make backup or clone the entire OMV system disk in case there is a failure? FYI I am using 120GB SSD for the OMV Operating System and 2GB HDD for my data. I saw that there are a few backup plugins in the plugins section but no documentation on how to use it. Really appreciate if you can help me on this matter. Thanks!

Congratulations on the 10k! Could you make a Video about How to Convert mkv to mp4 automatically on a raspberry pi, because Plex doesnt want to play mkv's :-( And How to install a FTP with OMV That would be awesome

Okay so everything between me, agent, is using CloudFlare SSL, but there is nothing secure between CloudFlare servers and my home server. Right? Everything else is great but I want something stronger encryption. I wanted this video for 5 times trying to see where I skipped that part before I went looking at how CloudFlare really works.

works nice! try 5-10 manuals from youtube and web and nothing works. but your manual working fine. You are awesome. Question? its working only for one domain? or redirection to second.domain works too? how to secure by password main dashboard?

Thanks for your tutorial ! I'll try in my home network. 😉

Thanks for the tutorial. I am having trouble loading the docker-comose up -d command. I am getting "Error: the compose file './docker-compose.yml' is invalid because: Unsupported config option for services: 'traefik' and the same for 'web'. Any idea the issue? I am on OMV5, and docker-compose ver. 1.21.0. Please help. It seems to be thinking the .yml file composition isn't compatible

Can you help with letsencrypt configuration. I have uncomment the letsencrypt configuration but its taking TRAEFIK DEFAULT CERT” certification. I feel like something is missing for letsencrypt configuration

I've asked the "guy from servers" if he knows Docker and can help me set up my websites in containers, and he said: Docker? That's for development ! You don't use this in serious production environment ! I was like no way ! It has to be the way ! Cause the concept is awesome! And so I'm, sitting second week watching and learning all of the stuff that I'll need to move my websites ( I want to start few other websites based on python and other things, and don't really want to mess up the server config by installing to many things at once) So the question is: I'll need to install and configure Debian in host server (my servers are running Debian since the begging) and install Docker. Then Rancher with Kubernetes in container ( because it's easier to manage and scale everything with Rancher) Then Traefik ( it's a magic sauce that really answer a lot of my questions) Of course, I would like to use Let's Encrypt and Cloudflare for everything Then build some containers for my websites( Apache with alpine, php, mysql) some other with Python and other stuff etc. What about managing FTP accounts for domains and setting up the access to folders for users ? What about setting up emails for different domains ? I found poste.io in Docker container which is a great idea but how I'll set up different emails for different domains all in one container with poste.io ? What about thins like cron ? Can this be done from the level above containers/websites or I just need to add some free panel like Virtualmin,Webmin,Ajenti to container image to manage all of that? So far I've found one guy actually showing how to install Traefik with Let's encrypt,Kubrenetes,Docker on actual server and connect domain to it to one container. But no tutorials on how to setup,move and manage existing websites with multiple domains to containers. You can either find some videos on how to set up Docker for one simple task on your home lab or either lectures about scalability, clusters etc. We need some videos about something in the middle ! :P to make video(s) about setting all this up with at least 2 domains and move existing websites, I can pay for test VPN and redirect some domains for testing ( along with web website content) Many thanks for reading. Let me know what you think.

First of all: Great video, as always! :D I still have so much to learn about this stuff but its a lot of fun. I have an OMV server at home that is running jellyfin, heimdall, a minecraft server, etc. thanks to your awesome tutorials. Now here is my question: Does this setup work for jellyfin too? I dont want to use a vpn on my phone just to connect to my server everytime I'm outside of my home network.

For some reason the ssl isn't opening up. Can you please point me to to do that?

Great 😃

can you do a setup guide of adding authentik + crowdsec to this please?

Awesome, just a question, on which level did you set the SSL parameters in Cloudflare settings ? Thanks a lot for your work !

How is it possible to connect to the bridged network ips like your traefik container from your browser??

Do you not copy over the DNS records from PorkBun?

This is a great tutorial! So much easier to get my head around compared to nginx. Is it possible to create a stack from containers that I already have running?

Question. How do I set it up to forward to a docker container on another device (separate from the server with traefik)?

Thank you, i just started with OMV 5 and had troubles with docker instead of plugins, you helped a lot. 1 question, if i make an internal dns record. will this still work?

You sir are amazing! So easy to follow and soooo helpful. My only question is none of my domains work but they show in traefik but I just bought the domain and made the cloudflare account it said something about pending. Do I just wait a while? Liked and Subbed

How about OMV5, Cloudflare, NGINIX proxy manager and Portainer 2.0. I know you made a similar video so maybe an update. I also could not find your stack for the proxy manager to use in Portainer 2.0.

I had issues at the " docker-compose up -d " part. I received the error: "Cannot autolaunch D-Bus without X11 $DISPLAY" I was able to fix it by running the following while SSH'd inside docker: apt-get install pass gnupg2 Then I create a gpg2 key by doing: gpg2 --gen-key traefik now shows up in Portainer and running on the appropriate network.

I really like this approach and want to get it setup on my server. I just have one question. Would I have to manually update my new IP address every time when my ISP renews it?

what ports need to be fwd' on your router for traefik?

Hey thanks for all your tutorials and all this effort! I followed your tutorial but I get the browser Error "ERR_TOO_MANY_REDIRECTS" if I want to visit the dashboard over my domain. local ip:8080 works fine!

Did you have any luck getting plex working with your traefik setup. I removed all the ports like you said but I cant get it to work.

Would there be anything against using a free domain like DuckDNS?

Is it also possible to use other ports then 80 & 443? My ISP don't let me open them..

Thanks for the tutorial! it works great! Do you know how to setup traefik so that it also handles application that were deployed outside of docker? Thanks!

Can you use DuckDNS and Cloudflare together ? DuckDNS to track your dynamic IP and then proxy it via Cloudflare. Makes sense ?

Hi DB Tech. Do you happen to know if OpenVPN to my home network is possible if Cloudfare domain is proxied? I tested and it's not working when proxy is enabled. Likely not possible with their free service. I'd keep my IP behind proxy if theres some trick available without subscribing to paid service. Their paid service is so expensive, that It would be cheaper then to rent a VPS and set VPN in to that instead.

I followed this one too and somehow got booksonic working, as in, it shows up on Traefik dashboard as successful. When I click the sitename, I do get a 502 Bad Gateway error. Upon checking the booksonic logs I find - Unable to start webserver error. Is this a permissions issue?

how are you getting an SSL from cloudflare without talking to the global API for cloudflare?

Do we need Fixed IP address? My public IP is dynamic and keeps changing.

Hi DB Tech, You have no idea how much your videos are helping me, as a complete noob... Only a year I started my OMV project at home, and it feels I've been through so many things! Anyway... I did follow your guidelines, and it messed up with my nextcloud setup. I mean, I either have to have Traefik on 80/443, either Nextcloud, but if I use other ports, Cloudflare is sending a 502 back... I'm not begging for help, just to know, does a way out seem to exist? Kind Regards! Jonathan

Is there a way to hide you URL? I want to be able to access it from outside my network but do not want the entire world to see myTraefik page, music, wiki, etc.?

How can you secure this? The proxy has still rights to the docker.sock

Very good video! One question, will all this work if i set it up on a Raspberry Pi?? Thanks

Hi, how do you secure monitor.yourdomain.com? Currently its open to the internet.

Hi, Thanks for explaining about traefik, this is my first time trying this out, I am unable to get dashboard page working over dns, Could you please suggest. the page works locally using 192.168.x.x:8080 though. I have ports 80 and 443 open. Cloudflare ssl is set to Flexible. Has https is on

How do you do it with Minecraft Bedrock Server?

hi, is it possible to get https access for portainer with Traefik ? Thanks for your tutorial

Hmmm I followed it and setup a container under it (portainer) which says it is insecure?

hi whats the benefit to have my home server on internet domain?

Is your setup still working? I followed your guide and I installed watchtower to update containers for me and recently my website has gone down, I know my server is doing fine because local containers like portainer or pi-hole work just fine, my domain / cloudflare both look perfectly fine, no settings have been changed as far as I can tell, so I can only presume that an update to traefik has broke it or my configs... :( If another update doesn't come soon and fix it I think I might switch to HAproxy, traefik has been a headache to deal with.

I am trying to run it on wsl and it only recognizes localhost

what about if I want to route the whole network traffic through this traefik container ?

what if my public ip address changes? How do I add the A record?

the thing you need to know about cloudflare's ssl, is the traffic to cloudflare is encrypted, however, the traffic from cloudflare to your home IP IS NOT ENCRYPTED...

What about a service/server that is not in docker?

Use duckdns instead of buying a domain?

Hi, Thanks for all the hard work. Can you make a similar tutorial for Unraid. I honestly could not able to replicate it on my Unraid server and will appreciate if you an help in some way

Hello, First of all, thank you for your videos. My question is not related to this topic, but I don't know how to install personal website on omv5? Thank you. John fery

How do you use other multiple root domain names with Traefik? Like "example.com" instead of "site.example.com".

There is no way I can access domainname from my local network, is there any catch for extra port need to be open or something else? Same as you do at 16:47

Hey DB, Big Fan! Love All your videos! I am a sysadmin who is constantly tinkering in my homelab! Ques for ya > I currently have 2 domains and one of them is presently running nginx with no problems and of course the one caveat there is the use of ports 80:443 :/ I am trying to setup traefik to work alongside my nginx but on my second domain name .. I made some progress in your video and was able to access the traefik dashboard however when I add a record into cloudflare for " your example> monitor" the page fails to load and gives me a 502 error. The SSL was tried on both flexible and strict. Any thoughts on how to get both working? Any help is appreciated! TY

Should this auto redirect http -> https? becouse for me it doesn't KEEP GOING with your Video they are very informative! Thanks a ton

trying this is OMV4 but im getting command not found when i put in docker-compose up -d, not sure what the issue is? again great video hope i get it to work thanks..

Question: after toggling http -> https on CloudFlare's web interface I keep receiving an Error 521. All was fine prior to this change and could access monitor and airsonic fine. I tried adding a CloudFlare certificate to omv5, but doesn't seem to change, might I've added it to the wrong place? Great video, thanks for helping a noob!

"docker-compose up -d" is not pulling anthing. Command not found

Hi, I am getting this: ERROR: Failed to create DNS record 'monitor.borschel.xyz' when I run the cloudflaredns updater container. I am reading on the free Cloudflre accounts we are not permitted to use CNAME and must upgrade to the enterprise version. However, I was able to create them and can ping them okay so I am confused why this isn't working. Any ideas?

Do you by accident have hassio running in this setup? Any hints on how to add that to traefik2?

Hi and thanks for nice tutorial. It's something I've just been looking for, but I got lost right at the begining. When I want to add my domain to Cloudflare, I get the message "marapavelka.eu is not registered domain".

traefik vs nginx proxy manager?!! ?¿?¿?witch one?

I've been researching for the past couple days how to use Cloudflare Origin CA certificate on the server with Traefik. I want to use cloudflare's settings "Full (strict)" instead of "Flexible." Would you know how to get this done?

What if you have a dynamic IP from your ISP, how do you set that the IP via Cloudflare? I appreciate the videos.

As far as i can tell, this tutorial does not work with the current cloudflare API and traefik. I just tried it letter for letter and it doesn't work anymore.

Hello David ! I tried to reinstall Nextcloud with your video and then modify my configuration to use Traefik and cloudflare instead of DuckDNS (using this video) but I don't manage to make it work... (My Traefik/cloudflare setup is OK as it worked with Filecloud). Could you please help me to set up Nextcloud with traefik ? I will be happy to offer you a nice Ko-fi :)