Here’s a brief explanation of how to get that sexy little RaspberryPi back online if you’re restricted to a changing ip address:
The problem – no static ip address due to my new router and embedded ee data sim. I came across the perfect, free solution that will not only circumvent the need for a static ip, but also avoid any cgnat issues. Cloudflare tunnels allow you to create a two-way data portal that you can self-host and publicly publish web information. After much fiddling, here’s a few pointers that were critical in getting both the www. version and the straightforward davidhallows.com url both directing to the internal ip of my raspberry pi. Be prepared for some setup pain – however, the ability to bypass society’s financial gatekeeping and be the digital master of your own destiny will pump that ego!
This tutorial helps to create the necessary foundation for porting out your internal ip to the public. He’s clearly good with coffee – your man:
After going through the tunnel setup I still couldn’t get my site to become visible. One of the problems was having all my old pages hardwired as http, so I used some publicly well-known ai tools to script them as https which seemed to resolve that certificate issue. Here’s a few Cloudflare and WordPress snips, largely to help myself remember.
DNS settings (!) – first you need to make sure the nameservers from your ISP are deleted and replaced with the ones Cloudflare give you. You can see here that one is pointed to the tunnel, the other is pointed to the first.
One thing that slightly perplexed me was the necessary addition of public nameservers to get it all to dovetail seamlessly. Again, here’s my grab from Cloudflare –
And that, alongside these two antennas should getcha roughly there (in fact the first one I bought as a high grade marine antenna which didn’t provide enough grunt, so I bought the square one too, they both feed directly into my Teltonica RUTX50 Router). As a pointer of success, I regularly send speed test download screengrabs to my boys back in the bricks and mortar family home, pointing out there fibre optic limitations – laaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaag. Click through the image to unlock 100mb downloads!!
