Static ip versus domain name, using ports

[ray.mccormack]

What is the name of the domain?

marine-captain com

What is the error number?

says not secure

What is the error message?

say not secure

What is the issue you’re encountering

port numbers won’t work with the domain name

What steps have you taken to resolve the issue?

tried using clouldflare, but not sure how to do it

What are the steps to reproduce the issue?

port number with the static IP works for webmin and resilio sync. I want to eleminate the use of a static ip … but if I do this won’t be able to access the webmin and resilio sync … how do I do this in cloudflare?

[i40west]

The Cloudflare proxy only works with a few ports. This is not a problem because you can create any hostname you want and point it at any port you want. There’s no need to use the same name for every service with port numbers.

So, if you have an admin service running on port 1234, you could create a DNS entry for admin.example.com, point it to the correct IP address, and then use an Origin Rule to override the destination port number and set it to 1234. Then you can just connect to admin.example.com for that service without needing the port number at all.

You can then do the same for any other service on any other port. On a free plan you get a maximum of 10 Origin Rules so you can do this for as many as 10 ports.

The Origin Rule would look like this: