Greetings,
I had all this working (sort of as it turns out). My internet service provider changed IP numbers and everything fell to its knees.
My goal, at the end of the day, is to get Traefik working with Cloudflare. All this is based in Docker/Portianer hosted on an HP Elitedesk mini I’ve got running Ubuntu server.
As I had to redo my Cloudflare (CF) setup, everything that I had that sort of work got thrown to the curb in the goal of setting it up properly this time.
I’ve got a Ubiquiti Dream Machine SE that hosts a VPN for me to connect to when out of the house. Previously, I had mis-configured the DDNS update, so it didn’t work when the IP address changed. So, I worked through CF and got that working properly.
With that in place, I began working to get Traefik talking to CF without success.
So starting from scratch, using this (Setup Traefik Proxy in Docker Standalone - Traefik) I set my configs up exactly as directed in the Docker section. The certs have been generated, I’ve got a password hash, exactly as dictated.
But when I run docker compose up, I’m getting this:
[+] Running 2/2
✔ Container traefik Created 0.1s
✔ Container whoami Created 0.1s
Attaching to traefik, whoami
whoami | 2025/09/12 17:56:00 Starting up on port 80
traefik | 2025-09-12T17:56:00Z INF Traefik version 3.4.5 built on 2025-07-23T09:26:45Z version=3.4.5
traefik | 2025-09-12T17:56:00Z INF
traefik | Stats collection is disabled.
traefik | Help us improve Traefik by turning this feature on :)
traefik | More details on: https://doc.traefik.io/traefik/contributing/data-collection/
traefik |
traefik | 2025-09-12T17:56:00Z INF Starting provider aggregator *aggregator.ProviderAggregator
traefik | 2025-09-12T17:56:00Z INF Starting provider *file.Provider
traefik | 2025-09-12T17:56:00Z ERR Cannot start the provider *file.Provider error="error adding file watcher: no such file or directory"
traefik | 2025-09-12T17:56:00Z INF Starting provider *traefik.Provider
traefik | 2025-09-12T17:56:00Z INF Starting provider *docker.Provider
traefik | 2025-09-12T17:56:00Z INF Starting provider *acme.ChallengeTLSALPN
and https://dashboard.docker.localhost/ doesn’t resolve.
Any thoughts on moving forward, so I can include the CF stuff would be greatly appreciated.
chris