Cloudfare https ports

Website, Application, Performance DNS & Network
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AFAIK ha natively uses port 8123, are you trying to use a proxied DNS entry with that port?

If you want to use ha on your local network with Cloudflare I personally would recommend using a docker setup. Would be important to know if you run it on a external server or on any device within your home-network?

If in your home-network I would do it like this:

(:orange:) domain.tld:443 ==> router 123.123.123.123:443 ==> docker:443=>8123

alternatively you can remap ports on your router with port forwarding:

(:orange:) domain.tld:443 ==> router 123.123.123:443 ==> docker:8123

other then that you can modify the port, ha uses to any other port (prefered one Cloudflare support). To do so please modify this line in your configuration.yaml:

http:
   server_port: 8123

I would recommend changing it to 8443 or any other from the officially supported Cloudflare SSL ports:

  • 443
  • 2053
  • 2083
  • 2087
  • 2096
  • 8443

This will allow you to:

  1. proxy your domain and hide your private IP
  2. use SSL and a proper public SSL port
  3. not having to port-map anything (if a native Cloudflare SSL port is getting used)

But like @cscharff stated, your error 403 is getting generated on your origin server.

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