How to setup Caddy

Setting up Caddy

Setting up Caddy

Caddyfile Download

Wordpress Caddyfile

Running Caddy inside the Caddy.exe Directory

cd C:\Caddy\Directory

ie. cd C:\Tools\Caddy

2. Running Caddy Manually

./caddy run --config Caddyfile

caution

Do not Forget to Accept both permissions if a windows Pops up upon first run.

Setting Up Cloudflare Tunnels

Setting Up Cloudflare Tunnels

Downloads

CloudFlare DDNS

Setting up A Name Record

1. Download Cloudflare DDNS from github and extract it to a directory of your choice ie. C:\Tools\CloudflareDDNS

2. Open https://dash.cloudflare.com/ and select your domain

3. Click DNS on the side bar

4. Click add a Record

5. Go to https://ipchicken.com/ and copy your external ip into the A NAME ie.

6. Click Save

Getting an API Key

1. Go to Overview in the right Hand Menu

2. Scroll Down till you see get API Token and click it

3. Click Create a Token

4. Scroll down and select Custom Token

5. Name the Token, Give it Zone, Zone, Read and then click add more and add Zone, DNS, Edit Like so

6. Then Click Create Token

7. Create Copy your token somewhere safe

Running Cloudflare DDNS

1. type in powershell

cd C:\Tools\CloudflareDDNS

2. Run this command after you edit the code to match yours

./cloudflare-ddns --token your-cloudflare-api-key --domain home.yourdomain.com

ie. ./cloudflare-ddns --token apkGKJHDkansjhcbsdjhc --domain home.demonwarriortech.com

3. it should get a log like this

time="2023-01-28T17:54:39-06:00" level=info msg="updated record" content=123.123.123.123 name=home.ittechnut.com
PS C:\tools\cloudflareddns>

Autostartup CloudflareDDNS

1. Search Run in Windows

2. Type shell:startup and enter it will open a folder with your startup apps. These are all the apps that start when windows Starts

3. Right Click anywhere in empty space in your folder and click new ---> Text Documents and name it CloudFlareDDNS.bat (Make sure You do Not save it as a .txt)

4. Now open the text document and paste

C:\Tools\CloudFlareDDNS\cloudflare-ddns --token your-cloudflare-api-token--domain home.yourdomain.com
pause

ie.

C:\Tools\CloudFlareDDNS\cloudflare-ddns --token apkGKJHDkansjhcbsdjhc --domain home.demonwarriortech.com
pause

5. Click Save or CTRL+S

6. Run it and it should now be autorunning your background