Since Discourse now has support for running on a Raspberry Pi, running a small instance in your home lab will become a common use case. However, many residential ISPs block incoming traffic to the ports 80/443 that Discourse need.
The only change you need is changing the URL from url: http://localhost:8000 to url: http://localhost:80. Leave the tunnel running the background already.
Disable Rocket Loader
You must disable Cloudfalre Rocket Loader for Discourse to work properly.
I think it’s better that mention about port. If user decide to use argo tunnel, then they need to setup their port the same as tunnel settings. For example:
I’ve followed everything as per your guide above and everything works fine however;
Upon clicking on the link in the email to activate my account I get flown back to the correct webpage with an activation button, however this button doesn’t work. I’ve looked up guidance on this forum and it looks like a domain to ip issue?
I have confirmed force_https is set to true in the config.
Any thoughts / did you run into this issue (Screenshot attached) of the button that doesn’t do anything?
cloudflared tunnel info ******
2022-01-24T04:55:47Z INF Cannot determine default origin certificate path. No file cert.pem in [~/.cloudflared ~/.cloudflare-warp ~/cloudflare-warp /etc/cloudflared /usr/local/etc/cloudflared] originCertPath=
2022-01-24T04:55:47Z ERR You need to specify the origin certificate path with --origincert option, or set TUNNEL_ORIGIN_CERT environment variable. See https://developers.cloudflare.com/argo-tunnel/reference/arguments/ for more information. originCertPath=
error parsing tunnel ID: Error locating origin cert: client didn't specify origincert path when running from terminal
What is the current error you’re getting when browsing to your website address? Is it just a generic Cloudflare Argo Tunnel error page?
Could you please show us your running containers by running the command: docker ps and show us your current running tunnels with cloudflared tunnel list || Make sure you blur out your argo route / any non-relevant containers!
What is the current error you’re getting when browsing to your website address? Is it just a generic Cloudflare Argo Tunnel error page?
No there is no Cloudflare Argo Tunnel error page.
ERR_NAME_NOT_RESOLVED
docker ps
CONTAINER ID IMAGE COMMAND CREATED STATUS PORTS NAMES
f1bde9b70f55 local_discourse/app "/sbin/boot" 11 hours ago Up 11 hours 0.0.0.0:80->80/tcp, :::80->80/tcp, 0.0.0.0:443->443/tcp, :::443->443/tcp app
When use this command as a root user cloudflared tunnel list
2022-01-24T15:55:03Z INF Cannot determine default origin certificate path. No file cert.pem in [~/.cloudflared ~/.cloudflare-warp ~/cloudflare-warp /etc/cloudflared /usr/local/etc/cloudflared] originCertPath=
2022-01-24T15:55:03Z ERR You need to specify the origin certificate path with --origincert option, or set TUNNEL_ORIGIN_CERT environment variable. See https://developers.cloudflare.com/argo-tunnel/reference/arguments/ for more information. originCertPath=
Error locating origin cert: client didn't specify origincert path when running from terminal
When use this command as a pi user cloudflared tunnel list
You can obtain more detailed information for each tunnel with `cloudflared tunnel info <name/uuid>`
ID NAME CREATED CONNECTIONS
371dd57c-**************** ze****2022-01-24T03:35:19Z
It is normal?
We need to use a subdomain for DISCOURSE_HOSTNAME in the config.yml file, right?
Update: I am uninstalled Cloudflared and reinstalled with root user and it works now. I still don’t understand where exactly I went wrong in my previous attempt.
I think reinstalling it would of fixed the issue of cloudflared not finding the certificate…
With regards to running Cloudflare as a service - the configuration file you created when running the service manually will need to be moved to /etc/cloudflared.
I’m unsure about linking personal sites here so please let me know if I need to remove this but I’ve covered this under my one of my blogs under the section called: ‘Setup and Run Cloudflared as a Service’
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