Post #3690658
2026-07-02 04:22 UTC
Cloudflare tunnels is a great way to expose services on your network to the web.
You run a program in your server, it makes a tunnel, then you configure it on the website to visit the internal link in your network, eg
If you’re hosting a web server at home, you could have something like:
www.mydomain.net > 192.168.1.55:8080
You can also have cloudflare protect access to that website with email verification, google / Microsoft accounts etc.
It’s a lot to learn, but it’s very handy once you get the hang of it.
Here’s a YouTube video on the basics:
youtu.be/Q5dG8g4-Sx0?is=J7KvNZoyjsEq33fO
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@philanthropicoctopus@thelemmy.club 2026-07-02 05:25
Thank you for this tip I have just set it up and holy shit it worked straight away! This is so exciting! My question, now that my apps are exposed to the internet, aside from having strong passwords is there anything else I should be doing to keep safe? I just read no media servers on free tunnels so I’ll have to use nginx for jellyfin