Cloudflare for local server

Use skiff for email.  Copy DNS setting from skiff to cloudflare. 

 See: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hrwoKO7LMzk https://raidowl.hostyboi.com/2022/08/22/Cloudflare-Tunnel/ 

 install  wget -q https://github.com/cloudflare/cloudflared/releases/latest/download/cloudflared-linux-amd64.deb && dpkg -i cloudflared-linux-amd64.deb 

 run a local host server 

 cd ~/www/nodeserver/ node hello.js 

 CLOUDFLARE 

 https://cyberhost.uk/cloudflare-argo-tunnel/#adding-more-services 

 https://developers.cloudflare.com/cloudflare-one/connections/connect-networks/get-started/create-local-tunnel/ 

 1.) login to cloudflare dashboard 

 2.) create a new domain name 

 3.) open terminal and login via cmd 

   cloudflared tunnel login 

 select the domain name.  a new pem file will be saved to local 

 3.) create the tunnel: 

  cloudflared tunnel create mysite.com 

 if it exists delete it by checking with cloudflared tunnel list then cloudflared tunnel delete impressto.ca 

  a new credential json file will be saved to your local 

 4.) create the config file  /home/webdev/.cloudflared/config.yml 

 url: http://localhost:5000 tunnel: 63f68dbe-585c-4c30-bdd9-980c39aa23e1 credentials-file: /home/annie/.cloudflared/63f68dbe-785c-4520-bdd9-980c39aa23e1.json 

 

 5.) setup the dns: 

 cloudflared tunnel route dns mysite.com mysite.com 

 note you may need to delete the existing DNS CNAME record in the cloudflare website first 

 6.) finally run it: 

 cloudflared tunnel run impressto.ca 

 

 change the local server address by editing ~/.cloudflared/config.yml 

 SERVING LOCAL SERVICES  

 sudo crontab -e  

 @reboot /home/annie/work/impressto/new_server/startup.sh 

 make sure to add local addresses to  /etc/hosts otherwise they will not be available for the tunnel on local