Cloudflare module for Caddy

This package contains a DNS provider module for Caddy. It can be used to manage DNS records with Cloudflare accounts.

Caddy module name

dns.providers.cloudflare

Configuration

This module gives the user two ways of configuring API tokens.

1. Seperate Zone and DNS Tokens
   • Zone Token: Zone.Zone:Read permission for All zones
   • DNS Token: Zone.DNS:Edit permission for the domain you're managing with Caddy
2. Single API Token
   • API Token: Zone.Zone:Read and Zone.DNS:Edit permissions for All zones

If you host multiple DNS Zones (domains) in Cloudflare, strongly consider using option 1.

Option 2 provides a simple way for users with a single domain. However, with this approach the key has permission to edit the DNS of all Zones in your account, so use this with care.

JSON Example

To use this module for the ACME DNS challenge, configure the ACME issuer in your Caddy JSON like so:

{
	"module": "acme",
	"challenges": {
		"dns": {
			"provider": {
				"name": "cloudflare",
				"api_token": "{env.CF_API_TOKEN}"
			}
		}
	}
}

Caddyfile Examples

Dual-key approach

tls {
	dns cloudflare {
		zone_token {env.CF_ZONE_TOKEN}
		api_token {env.CF_API_TOKEN}
	}
}

Single-key approach

tls {
	dns cloudflare {env.CF_API_TOKEN}
}

You can replace the {env.CF_*} placeholders with the actual auth token if you prefer to put it directly in your config instead of an environment variable, however it is less secure.

Authenticating

See the associated README in the libdns package for important information about credentials.

NOTE: If migrating from Caddy v1, you will need to change from using a Cloudflare API Key to a scoped API Token. Please see link above for more information.

Troubleshooting

Error: Invalid request headers

If providing your API token via an ENV var which is accidentally not set/available when running Caddy, you'll receive this error from Cloudflare.

Double check that Caddy has access to a valid CF API token.

Error: timed out waiting for record to fully propagate

Some environments may have trouble querying the _acme-challenge TXT record from Cloudflare. Verify in the Cloudflare dashboard that the temporary record is being created.

If the record does exist, your DNS resolver may be caching an earlier response before the record was valid. You can instead configure Caddy to use an alternative DNS resolver such as Cloudflare's official 1.1.1.1.

Add a custom resolver to the tls directive:

tls {
  dns cloudflare {env.CF_API_TOKEN}
  resolvers 1.1.1.1
}

Or with Caddy JSON to the acme module: challenges.dns.provider.resolvers: ["1.1.1.1"].