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Hi everyone, welcome back

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So today we're going to try
something a little bit different.

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We're gonna start a new video series

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about all the different ways to
expose or access our homelab

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from the internet.

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The reason is mainly because
there's tons of options out there,

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and I feel like it's not talked enough
about on YouTube.

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Especially the security part

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which is most important.

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Almost everyone just assumes it's secure,
which isn't always the case,

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so make sure to hit the Like button

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Subscribe and Share

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and let's get started.

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Okay so how to do it,

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to expose our homelab
there are five main ways

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1. Secure Tunnels like Cloudflare

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2. Reverse proxies like Nginx

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3. Traditional VPNs like Wireguard
or OpenVPN protocols

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4. Mesh VPNs like ZeroTier and Tailscale

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and lastly 5. the old classic 
port forwarding or NAT

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So let's break down each one of them
quickly to understand the differences.

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First secure tunnels like Cloudflare.

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This is often defined as secure tunnels to 
access your app without exposing your IP

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making remote access easy.

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It's also fairly easy to setup,

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however, by default it's not secured enough

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and solely [relies] on your app security

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but this can be improved.

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We'll cover this later in another video.

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Next, reverse proxies

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like nginx.

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It's a server that sits in the middle and forward requests to your homelab

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helping you manage multiple services under one domain.

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While adding another layer of protection,

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you will have more control over your services
and how to

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contr-
manage them.

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However, it exposes your IP and you must open a port on your router to access it.

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Next, traditional VPNs like Wireguard or OpenVPN.

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It creates an encrypted tunnel between your device and

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your homelab

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making it feel like you are on the same local network.

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It's good for privacy and security

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but only useful when you are the only user because

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it's impossible to share access without sharing your private key

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to other users.

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Next, mesh VPNs

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like ZeroTier or Tailscale

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this is similar to normal VPNs except it connects devices between each other

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instead of connecting them to a central server.

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It has more control over normal VPNs in the way that you can choose which devices to share

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but you must manually join the network

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each time for each devices you want to give access to.

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Finally NAT this is a classic way of opening specific ports on your router

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to expose your homelab.

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It's simple but it also carries high
security risk if you rely on it alone.

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Keep in mind NAT often gets used with other
methods like previously showed,

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but going purely [on it's own] port forwarding is a no-go for secure setups.

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Now, you may be wondering,

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what's the most secure setup

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to expose your home lab?

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Actually, [it] depends on your apps and what you want to do?

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In my opinion, it's not about which method you use

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but more about how you combine between them.

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The best setup is to mix them
and make them work all together

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to have the perfect setup.

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Okay so first let's go to cloudflare.com

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Go to "Sign Up"

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and free at the website.

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And let's create a new account now.

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After that if you already have [a]
domain [previously purchased]

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enter it here

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or for me I'm just going to create a new domain.

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For some reason I got an error

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when trying to pay

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So I'm just going to import an existing domain

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Just going to type it here.

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Okay, so then go down

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and choose the free package.

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Next click on continue to activation.

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Confirm. Next we need to 
do some modifications

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We need to modify, the current name servers

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with Cloudflare nameservers

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to allow Cloudflare to control the domain.

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To do that,

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we go to the domain provider

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in my case it's NameCheap.

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So in my case
I'm gonna do custom DNS

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and then I copy....

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the nameservers

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and then I save.

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It tells you that it can take 
up to 48 hours

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But it's not true it [can take] just a few seconds

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or a few minutes max

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But, just in case

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If it take a long time to update

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Uh, this is normal so

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just wait

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There is no other choice

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Okay, so after a while,

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We get this page this means everything is good

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Now we go to access page

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and then NetZero Trust.

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We choose our account

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Next you go to access

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Next we choose teamname

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Just anything

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Then we choose the free package of course

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There is zero payment

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Next we go to Networks

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Tunnels

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And we add a tunnel

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We choose this one Cloudflared

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We name our Tunnel

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Homelab uh test

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Next it will ask you to choose your environment

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In this case you just uh

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You just choose docker

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and then we just copy the comment

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because we just need the token.

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We don't need to run anything docker

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Then we go back to TrueNAS

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and we install

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the Cloudflared app.

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This one

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And here we['ve] got [to just]
paste what we had

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and we just keep.

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Remove everything, we just keep the token.

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So anything before this goes.

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That's it.

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We don't need to setup anything else.

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Even storage, it's not necessary.

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And we install.

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Okay now it's up and running.

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Let's go back to Cloudflared profile.

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Now we need to wait until we get uh

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something here in connectors.

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It will automatically search.

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Alright here we go

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It's connected.

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So now we can continue.

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Next

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Now we're ready to add our first service.

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Let's start by adding TrueNAS itself.

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So let's just copy the IP

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Then we choose the subdomain

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TrueNAS

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and choose the domain

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then we choose HTTP

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and then the IP

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There is nothing specific to add there.

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That's save.

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To test this I'm going to disconnect
from the VPN

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Because i'm not at home I'm
connected to my home VPN.

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So i'm just going to deactivate it

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and try this.

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To show that likely if I try to go to the same IP

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It's not going to work,

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because I disconnected from the VPN.

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And if I try

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a domain,

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new domain.

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It works.

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So now

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TrueNAS is accessible

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from the outside.

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But this is not recommended of course.

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If you want to expose something

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just expose the apps individually

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don't expose the whole thing.

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so

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So now I'm just going to delete it

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and then I'm gonna add something else.

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Okay now I want to add another service.

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Maybe, Proxmox

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Let's go to add the public hostname

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Proxmox

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same thing

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here's we're going to choose HTTPS instead of HTTP

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and then the IP

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as well as the port which is 8...

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8006

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and then we go to Additional Settings > TLS

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and we enable No TLS verify.

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It will not check certificates.

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Now let's save.

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Let's try again now.

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NIce! Now it works.

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And we'll disconnect the VPN

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and refresh

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and it still works.

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Okay now before we're finishing the video

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let's do

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one last service which is

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Paperless.

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Since we already covered this in a previous video,

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we're going to see how to expose this

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Why did I choose Paperless because

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it's a bit tricky to setup

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it's not as simple as

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adding the hostname.

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So, let's see first we just add the hostname of course

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same thing as always,

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HTTPS, and then we take the URL

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which is IP and Port

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It chooses HTTP not HTTPS

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Service name

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So first it's gonna work normally

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ff I try to access.

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Alright

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Uh, but the problem is when you

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try to login

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You get this

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error. CSRF verification failed.

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Why?

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We need to change some settings

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to make it accessible.

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According to the documentation

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we need to set this environment variable (PAPERLESS_URL)

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uh and uh, set it to the domain name

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we used in Cloudflare.

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So let's do that

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go to Paperless > Edit

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and let's just add it as an environment variable here

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PAPERLESS_URL

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set it to paperless.yourdomain

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make sure to add HTTPS to the beginning

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and that's it.

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Update.

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In case you got stuck in deploying

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which was the case for me

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I'm not sure why but the container Paperless

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just stuck like this for a long time

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So what I did is stop this instance

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and create another instance

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using the already created datasets.

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So you're not going to lose anything

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of your files.

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So let's start another instance

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Let's call it paperless-cloudflare.

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We can change password if you want.

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By the way you can choose any secret key

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you want. Just want some random stuff

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You don't need to remember it.

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Okay, add an email

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just a fake email.

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Password.

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Now we add again environment variable

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PAPERLESS_URL

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HTTPS

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paperless…

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dot

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your domain

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and then we add the other host path

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Paperless this is the data.

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let's copy this

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And now Media

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and then Consume

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and Trash

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this is PostScript

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Make sure to check "Automatic Permissions".

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Then we hit install.

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Let's wait [a] little bit.

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It works but it takes some time.

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Okay now it's running.

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Let's start it.

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First let's get the IP

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I mean let's get the port-- IP is the same.

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Go back to cloudflare

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Hit it

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Going to put the new port

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Save

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Let's try now

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Okay, now new password

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And now it works. We don't got the error

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the previous error.

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And as you can see we still have the [same] documents

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as before we didn't lost anything.

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We still got all our documents.

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Open them

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And uh, everything works fine

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That's it

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Basically this is how to

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expose your services on the cloud

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To recap:

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When you want to expose your app,

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this is how it works.

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We don't access the app directly

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but rather you access the cloud server

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cloudflare server. Cloudflare will make exchanges

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with your

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LAN network through Cloudflare

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and then

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It will give access to your app.

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This way you don't

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access your app directly

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which means you don't expose your

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IP and you don't go through the NAT

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you don't need to open a port

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but be careful if your habit is insecure

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and you get hacked. You directly expose

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all of your homelab

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It doesn't matter if you use Cloudflare

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or not

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Like and Share if you made it this far

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See you in the next video