There is a serious problem with how Cloudron handles Cloudflare. I purchased a domain, configured Cloudflair for it, proxying the root of the domain itself. I aimed it at the IP address of a VPS where I'm installing Cloudron. During the install I pick Cloudflare as the DNS provider and give the system the API token. The Cloudron install proceeds and then it makes the amazingly grim error of point my.domain.com to the public IP of the VPS without proxying it. I went to the Cloudflare interface and switched it to proxy but the damage is already done. My workstation did a DNS lookup and that information is cached in services like Farsight and RiskIQ. Having Cloudflare running after the fact will keep the skiddies at bay, but any serious bad actor is going to be able to get that public IP. What will it take for Cloudron to turn the proxy on when creating the my.domain.com DNS record?

Oh well, I added a checkbox to set the proxying flag for new DNS records. I was in two minds but "security" is plastered all over cloudflare's marketing and docs about this feature. So, people will always have whatever opinion that cannot be changed (including mine ). It's disabled by default. From Cloudron's point of view, this is the secure default.

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@benborges said in serious Cloudflare goof:

Maybe I'm confused, but unless this logic isn't build at the app deployment too, then yes for the main deployment it will work, but not for individual app additions ?

Ah yes, that's what that flag does. I see now that the screeshot is not "complete". That UI is the domains view. If you set the flag, then when Cloudron adds a new domain to Cloudflare, it will set the proxying based on that value. Essentially, it's the default value of the proxying cloudflare bit for new subdomains (so, not just installation time). If you want to turn this off later, you can do so by going to the Cloudflare dashboard. Cloudron won't interfere with the "proxying" flag after the domain has been added (for the lifecycle of the app).
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@girish Oh great, that seems good then, happy to test it when it's available !
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