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+# Traefik reverse proxy with automatic wildcard SSL from cloudflare 
+
 First create a docker network called "proxy" usig the following command:
 ```
 docker network create proxy
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 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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+The contents to put inside those files are given here. Except for acme.json, which will be automatically generated.
+
+## How to generate a hashed password to put in the compose.yml file
+
+- First install apache2-utils
+```
+sudo apt update
+sudo apt install apache2-utils
+```
+- Next generate your hashed password with the following command
+```
+echo $(htpasswd -nB USER) | sed -e s/\\$/\\$\\$/g
+```
+
+    - Replace USER with your username
+    - Enter a password when it prompts
+    - Copy paste the generated hashed password into the compose.yml file
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