Trouble with Cloudflare Tunnel, OBS, and Owncast
I installed owncast (self hosted live streaming app) on a VPS which I am using cloudflare to manage wildcard ssl certificates for a bunch of self hosted apps.
When I add my rtmp address from my owncast server and stream key to OBS studio it is supposed to connect and start streaming.
Due to cloudflare, it's blocking rtmp, and the solution from Owncast is to create a cloudflare tunnel to access my server, as described in the docs, here:
https://owncast.online/docs/cdns/
I have tried to create a tunnel and I have done so, but I am still unable to connect to my streaming server from OBS.
Can someone who has experience with tunnels please help me figure out what is misconfigured with my tunnel?
Owncast
Content Delivery Networks (CDNs)
A CDN can help improve the network performance of your Owncast instance by caching and distributing content from servers located closer to users.
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Check because the free tier, blocks most of the ports, only 80, 8080 and 443 are opened.
Here are the ports and you'll need to cross reference them.
https://developers.cloudflare.com/fundamentals/reference/network-ports/
Cloudflare Docs
Network ports · Cloudflare Fundamentals docs
Learn which network ports Cloudflare proxies by default and how to enable Cloudflare's proxy for additional ports.