Instance owners, how did you get your server online? (lemmy.world)

submitted 1 week ago by dawnslayer@lemmy.world to c/fediverse@lemmy.world

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I created my community using Sharkey, and I didn’t want to bother the service maintainers any more than I already have, so I’m reaching out here for help. 😂

How did you get your servers online? I manage my domain through Cloudflare, and I tried setting up a tunnel to access my instance. The server is online, and I can access the admin panel via an IP address, but I get an error when I type in the domain via my browser (Firefox). Cloudflare users, I could really use your help!

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[-] cron@feddit.org 27 points 1 week ago

Seems like a good question for a selfhosting community

[-] sentient_loom@sh.itjust.works 15 points 1 week ago

I think it's also appropriate here, and I appreciate seeing the question (and possible answers) here.

[-] cron@feddit.org 5 points 1 week ago

I'm not saying that it isn't a good fit (after all, the fediverse encourages selfhosting) - but OP might get better help there.

[-] dawnslayer@lemmy.world 5 points 1 week ago

My bad, I saw someone else post something similar a few months ago so I thought here would work too.

[-] ComradeMiao@lemmy.dbzer0.com 7 points 1 week ago

Share more details please. I also had a similar issue

[-] thebardingreen@lemmy.starlightkel.xyz 5 points 1 week ago

I do run an instance, but I don't use Cloudflare, so I'm not sure I can be much help.

[-] dawnslayer@lemmy.world 2 points 1 week ago

Thanks anyway.

[-] schizo@forum.uncomfortable.business 3 points 1 week ago

Are you using Cloudflare as DNS, proxy, or via their argo tunnels? (I know you said tunnel, but then mention accessing via IP address, so I'm not entirely sure what you've done.)

Kinda changes what you should be looking at.

[-] dawnslayer@lemmy.world 1 points 1 week ago

As far as I know the server's able to be accessed by an IP address so when setting up Cloudflare via their Argo tunnel, that's what I put in the config file.

[-] schizo@forum.uncomfortable.business 3 points 1 week ago

Okay so you're able to access it via the IP it's hosted on, but NOT via the domain name in the tunnel?

Is the working IP a public or private one?

My $5 is that you don't have the tunnel configured properly and that's why you're having issues, but maybe not.

Also, what specifically did you put in the config file? Usually they're not asking for an IP, but the FQDN of the site.

[-] dawnslayer@lemmy.world 2 points 1 week ago

Yep, and I'm unsure I just know that I set everything up in CLI. And is that so? In the config file under ingress, it just says 'service' under hostname so I figured it was talking about the IP.