# Looking for a recent Cloudflare how-to guide **URL:** https://meta.discourse.org/t/looking-for-a-recent-cloudflare-how-to-guide/220813 **Category:** Self-hosting **Created:** [March 12, 2022, 8:59pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/looking-for-a-recent-cloudflare-how-to-guide/220813 "2022-03-12T20:59:31Z") **Posts on this page:** 1 **Page:** 1
### Author: ![Richie](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/meta/user_avatar/meta.discourse.org/richie/32/115110_2.png) [@Richie](https://meta.discourse.org/u/Richie) #### Post date: [March 12, 2022, 8:59pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/looking-for-a-recent-cloudflare-how-to-guide/220813/1 "2022-03-12T20:59:31Z")
I’ve been reading various cloudflare topics here but can’t seem to find an up to date / complete “how to” guide. For example, this topic is over four years old: > [@Force Discourse to use SSL/HTTPS through CloudFlare](https://meta.discourse.org/t/force-discourse-to-use-ssl-https-through-cloudflare/49212): > > How to use CloudFlare’s platform to force all traffic over HTTPS connection using page rules. This is an up to date and user-friendly (fool-proof) way that I use each time and it works perfectly. Sign up to CloudFlare [here](https://cloudflare.com) - they offer SSL/HTTPS on their Free plan, so that will be just fine for us. Add your site [here](https://www.cloudflare.com/a/add-site) - the system will scan for DNS records, make sure all are correct and add any records not picked automatically by the scan i.e. MX records. You will the have to add the CloudFl… Is there a more recent guide somewhere? My Discourse was set up following the standard docker installation guides and it automatically looks after its own Let’s Encrypt (LE) SSL cert renewals and such. I was looking for a guide that would help me understand how to stop my Discourse renewing its LE cert and to help me create and install an origin certificate from cloudflare - and anything else that might be required in order to proxy all the traffic through Cloudflare. Along with any potential gotchas with uploading as we host all our user uploads on a S3 bucket.