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Intermediate ~25 min sudo required

Install OpenClaw with Cloudflare Tunnel

OpenClaw agent gateway exposed publicly via Cloudflare Tunnel with Zero Trust access control.

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Prerequisites

Ubuntu server
Cloudflare account with a zone
Node.js installed

Step 1 Snippet

Update Ubuntu system packages

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Install essential CLI tools

Step 3 Snippet

Set server hostname

Hostname *

Step 4 Snippet

Enable UFW firewall with SSH

Step 5 Snippet

Install Node.js via NodeSource

Node major version *

Step 6 Snippet

Enable pnpm via Corepack

Step 7 Command

Install and verify OpenClaw

pnpm add -g openclaw
openclaw --version
openclaw gateway start
openclaw gateway status

Step 8 Snippet

Install cloudflared

Step 9 Snippet

Authenticate cloudflared with your account

Step 10 Snippet

Create a named Cloudflare tunnel

Tunnel name *

Step 11 Snippet

Route subdomain to tunnel (DNS)

Existing tunnel name *

Public hostname *

Step 12 Snippet

Generate cloudflared config.yml

Tunnel UUID *