Help with Traefik and Cloudflare 521 "Web server is down"

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Hi,

I am trying to use Traefik as a reverse proxy for some docker containers but I am stuk with an 521 Web server is down error.

This is the docker-compose.yml I am using:

version: "3"

services:
  traefik:
    container_name: traefik
    image: traefik
    restart: unless-stopped
    security_opt:
      - no-new-privileges:true
    environment:
      - CF_API_EMAIL=${CLOUDFLARE_EMAIL}
      - CF_API_KEY=${CLOUDFLARE_API_KEY}
    ports:
      - 80:80
      - 433:433
    volumes:
      - /var/run/docker.sock:/var/run/docker.sock:ro
      - ./acme/acme.json:/acme.json 
    networks: 
      - web_proxy
    command:
      # Global settings
      - --global.checkNewVersion=true
      - --global.sendAnonymousUsage=false
      # Entrypoints
      - --entryPoints.web.address=:80
      - --entryPoints.websecure.address=:443
      # Dashboard
      - --api=true
      - --api.dashboard=true
      - --api.insecure=false
      - --api.debug=false
      # Log
      - --log=true
      - --log.level=DEBUG # (Default: error) DEBUG, INFO, WARN, ERROR, FATAL, PANIC
      # Certificate
      - --certificatesResolvers.dns-cloudflare.acme.caServer=https://acme-staging-v02.api.letsencrypt.org/directory # LetsEncrypt Staging Server
      - --certificatesResolvers.dns-cloudflare.acme.email=${CLOUDFLARE_EMAIL}
      - --certificatesResolvers.dns-cloudflare.acme.storage=/acme.json
      - --certificatesResolvers.dns-cloudflare.acme.dnsChallenge.provider=cloudflare
      # Docker provider
      - --providers.docker=true
      - --providers.docker.endpoint=unix:///var/run/docker.sock
      - --providers.docker.exposedByDefault=false
      - --providers.docker.network=web_proxy
      - --providers.docker.swarmMode=false
      - --providers.docker.defaultRule=Host(`{{ index .Labels "com.docker.compose.service" }}.$DOMAIN`)
    labels:
      - "traefik.enable=true"
      - "traefik.http.routers.traefik.service=api@internal"
      - "traefik.http.routers.traefik.tls.certresolver=dns-cloudflare"
      - "traefik.http.routers.traefik.entrypoints=websecure"
      # Basic auth
      - "traefik.http.routers.traefik.middlewares=traefik-auth"
      - "traefik.http.middlewares.traefik-auth.basicauth.users=$TRAEFIK_USER_PASSWORD"

networks:
  web_proxy:
    external:
      name: web_proxy

I am spinning up Portainer to test the revere proxing:

version: '3'

services:
  portainer:
    image: portainer/portainer
    container_name: portainer
    volumes:
     - /var/run/docker.sock:/var/run/docker.sock
     - ./data:/data
    restart: unless-stopped
    ports:
      - 9000:9000 # Just to be sure Portainer is working
    labels:
      - "traefik.enable=true"
      - "traefik.http.routers.portainer.service=portainer"
      - "traefik.http.routers.portainer.tls.certresolver=dns-cloudflare"
      - "traefik.http.routers.portainer.entrypoints=websecure"
      - "traefik.http.services.portainer.loadbalancer.server.port=9000"
    networks:
      - web_proxy

networks:
  web_proxy:
    external:
      name: web_proxy

Now, after starting Traefik certificates are successfully generated and in my acme.json I find:

{
  "dns-cloudflare": {
    "Account": {
      "Email": "redacted@gmail.com",
      "Registration": {
        "body": {
          "status": "valid",
          "contact": [
            "mailto:redacted@gmail.com"
          ]
        },
        "uri": "https://acme-staging-v02.api.letsencrypt.org/acme/acct/15512779"
      },
      "PrivateKey": "redacted",
      "KeyType": "4096"
    },
    "Certificates": [
      {
        "domain": {
          "main": "traefik.domain.com"
        },
        "certificate": "redacted",
        "key": "redacted",
        "Store": "default"
      },
      {
        "domain": {
          "main": "portainer.domain.com"
        },
        "certificate": "redacted",
        "key": "redacted",
        "Store": "default"
      }
    ]
  }
}

But if I hit traefik.domain.com or portainer.domain.com there is a Cloudflare page with the 521 error. Portainer is working because I can see the dashboard going to ip:9000.
If I access ip:80 I get a 404 error.

I have been using nginx-proxy to proxy my containers for a while now so I do not think there is something wrong with my cloudflare configuration but I may be wrong.

The logs of traefik container are: https://pastebin.com/hrgMxm9K

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Check your DNS, it may be pointing not where you think it's pointing. If this checks out, try disabling proxying on cloudflare to take it out the equation while you troubleshoot traefik setup.

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I found the error. I feel so stupid because I bound port 433 instead of 443.
Thank you for your time!

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