Monday, February 17, 2025

cloudflared or ssh tunnel for reverse-proxying on-premise servers

Exploring what we can do with cloudflare - 


2. But BSNL, Airtel etc would block ports. So, it would be far easier to use a tunnel with an outgoing ssh connection to a VM or something like that. That way, we don't have to depend on port-forwarding and availability of unblocked ports. We can use -R in the ssh tunnel for reverse-proxying.

3. But then, we may not even need a VM - currently Cloudflare Zero Trust Web access supports private apps, which would ask clients for authentication, and then allow them to connect to our private server via cloudflared tunnels.
https://developers.cloudflare.com/cloudflare-one/connections/connect-networks/get-started/create-remote-tunnel/
and give it a public hostname with
Starting from the page below, we can go "next, next" to finish all the steps to achieve ZT web access.


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