Hello everyone, I’ve set up Discourse on community.website.com and WordPress on website.com . I’m using Caddy as the reverse proxy with Let’s Encrypt managing SSL. After some initial hurdles, I got everything working smoothly, including SSL and redirects. I went with this setup after numerous failur…

If you’re utilizing Cloudflare’s CDN and security services, you don’t need to configure your own SSL certificate on your origin server. Instead, navigate to the SSL/TLS settings within your Cloudflare dashboard and create an ‘Origin Certificate’. This certificate will secure the traffic proxied from…

Are you running Caddy and Wordpress on the host machine or as Docker containers?

Running on Docker. Made a directory in the Discourse directory for the certs. I was surprised in work on first shot :smile:

Step 5: Configure Discourse to Use the SSL Certificate Edit the Discourse NGINX configuration to use the SSL certificate. Typically, this file is located at /etc/nginx/conf.d/discourse.conf or within the /var/discourse/containers/ directory if using Docker. Modify or add the following lines t…

Configuring Caddy and Cloudflare for Discourse

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BrianC (Brian) February 11, 2025, 11:16pm 4

Thank you @shannon1024 ! First time for that one but nice and smooth and working now.

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