Super Simple Cloudflare and Nginx Proxy Manager Setup Using YOUR Domain

You want to expose your self-hosted services but want to do it securely using your own domain? Start with the basic Cloudflare and Nginx Proxy Manager options and see just how easy it is to setup! Don’t forget to forward ports 80 and 443 to the IP of the machine your Nginx Proxy Manager is on. Do this in your router or gateway. Find the IP by opening a terminal and type “ifconfig”. If that doesn’t work install net tools by typing “sudo apt install net-tools” then run the ifconfig command again.

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Don’t forget to forward ports 80 and 443 to the IP of the machine your Nginx Proxy Manager is on. Do this in your router or gateway. Find the IP by opening a terminal and type “ifconfig”. If that doesn’t work install net tools by typing “sudo apt install net-tools” then run the ifconfig command again. You can also use the ip addr command.

[Elmojomo]

You just earned a sub for the ONE detail you included that no one else has mentioned: turning off the Cloudflare proxy temporarily until after adding the SSL!! I've been struggling with this for literally weeks. That one little thing suddenly made my setup work...thank you so much!

[lorddias]

I know its been a couple of years now but thanks a ton for this video! I was so lost trying to complete setup and I was constantly making things more complicated than they needed to be. I gave it an honest try but your video did the job, thank you.

[calmik]

please don’t apologise for making either long videos or for being slightly not “orderly”... your videos are super informative, to the point, no nonsense, very clear, concise and high quality. I found your channel by pure coincidence this week, watched a few videos and subscribed.
love your content, please don’t change unless you run out of ideas 😊
as an “early” YouTuber, your vidz are awesome, so thanks for your high quality content. keep it up and keep it coming 😊

[faba]

Finally someone who explains it correctly for a starter. Great video !

[bernieyee]

Thank you much! I followed your video today and got my Plex server online now! Most of my time has been spend on "Don’t forget to forward ports 80 and 443 to the IP of the machine your Nginx Proxy Manager is on. " I wish that I read the description before watching the video! LOL! Anyway, great video and please keep going!!!

[PeterBatah]

Thank you for sharing your time and expertise with us. Your delivery was clear and precise. No apology necessary. Much appreciated.

[joftenly]

Hey thanks! I broke a lot doing this tutorial, I learned how to fix more stuff and I got the original thing done using this tutorial lol! Thanks for the quality vid!!

[geraldmaale]

Wasted almost 12hours in getting around this hack. You are a life saver. The port mappings were tricky for me. I went around almost all options except what you demonstrated. Cheers! 👌👌🤞🤞

[andreloureiro]

Not going to lie, im trying to learn some stuff before I start tinkering on my machine and this video is by far the most comprehensive of all of the ones i saw

[boomuhjuice]

A million thumbs up, this is the 5th tutorial I've watched on setting up NGINX, the first one I got to work
And I only needed to watch a single time,

[LonSeidman]

This was a super helpful and simple guide. I did an experiment where I booted up the NPM docker on an Unbuntu VM running on my Synology NAS' virtual machine manager and then passed traffic to an OwnCloud docker running on the Synology as well. The VM got its own IP (similar to how it would work with Proxmox) and I did not experience any collisions with the Synology port 80 and 443 issue. The only thing I ran into with that configuration was that the Owncloud docker image did not have SSL configured so I used cloudflare's SSL instead. Seems to work and the cert is valid.

[larrybahr]

This was a great and quick video. Exactly what I wanted to know!

[t_Radikl]

Really loving your content! Very well explained. Keep up the great content and I’ll keep smashing that like button!

[ZacharyGuerrero]

Thanks this is awesome!
I wish I knew about Nginx Proxy Manager before. using that will make managing all my proxy servers so much easier vs manually editing each one.

[jamesvdos]

Awesome tutorial! keep up the amazing work!

[patrickmoon]

Thank you for your kind explaination! I got it finally!

[KevinMarchese]

9:32 omg 😳 these are the little things people fail to tell the tale of on why. Thank you extremely helpful.

[HowToITLLC]

I loved this! Thank you! I am getting a 502 error but that means it is my set up officially this video helped me troubleshoot a lot, thank you.

[Luke-cbhi]

3 month ago I tried to setup cloudflare but without success, now I get why.
Thanks a lot I will try again with your tutorial in mind !