Cloudflare Tunnel

Cloudflare Tunnel is a free service that allows you to expose your local server to the internet, without having to expose your local IP address.

Additionally, it provides some protection against DDoS attacks, and allows you to use Cloudflare's other services like Access.

Setup

1. Make sure that you have a domain name that you can manage with Cloudflare.

2. From your cloudflare dashboard, navigate to Zero Trust > Networks > Tunnels

3. Click on Create a tunnel, and select the Clouflared option

4. Follow the intructions to install cloudflared, and create a connector on your device.

5. Add a hostname for your apex domain (ex: example.com), and use http://localhost:7777 as the origin service.

   

6. Do the same for your wildcard domain (ex: *.example.com). You'll need to then go to the DNS configuration of your domain, and add a CNAME record for your wildcard hostname, with a target of <tunnel-id>.cfargotunnel.com.

   

7. Add a new CNAME record for your wildcard hostname, with a target of <tunnel-id>.cfargotunnel.com.