Instance owners, how did you get your server online?
from dawnslayer@lemmy.world to fediverse@lemmy.world on 17 Dec 18:39
https://lemmy.world/post/23248033

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 on 17 Dec 18:44 next collapse

Seems like a good question for a selfhosting community

dawnslayer@lemmy.world on 17 Dec 18:54 next collapse

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

sentient_loom@sh.itjust.works on 17 Dec 19:24 collapse

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

cron@feddit.org on 17 Dec 21:15 collapse

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

fishcharlie@eventfrontier.com on 17 Dec 18:46 next collapse

What is the error that you get?

dawnslayer@lemmy.world on 17 Dec 18:55 collapse

Browser’s just saying that it can’t open the domain that’s attached to the instance.

fishcharlie@eventfrontier.com on 17 Dec 18:56 next collapse

That’s attached to the instance? Do you have a screenshot maybe?

kate@lemmy.uhhoh.com on 18 Dec 22:57 collapse

is it dns?

ComradeMiao@lemmy.dbzer0.com on 17 Dec 19:14 next collapse

Share more details please. I also had a similar issue

schizo@forum.uncomfortable.business on 17 Dec 19:48 next collapse

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 on 17 Dec 19:57 collapse

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 on 17 Dec 20:06 collapse

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 on 18 Dec 04:17 collapse

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.

thebardingreen@lemmy.starlightkel.xyz on 17 Dec 20:04 collapse

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

dawnslayer@lemmy.world on 18 Dec 04:18 collapse

Thanks anyway.