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+Make directories in your homefolder like so:
+- ~/traefik
+    - compose.yml
+    - data
+        - acme.json # make sure to change permissions of this file with chmod 600 acme.json
+        - config.yml
+        - traefik.yml
+
+Use mkdir to make the folders and touch to create the json and yml files
+
+Basically:
+mkdir traefik
+cd traefik
+touch compose.yml
+mkdir data
+cd data
+touch acme.json
+chmod 600 acme.json
+touch config.yml
+touch traefik.yml
+
+The contents to put inside those files are given here. Except for acme.json which will be automatically generated.
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