Avoid Mistakes: How to Install and Configure Authelia Correctly

I think it would be incredibly valuable to have a "layman" completely run through your guides and videos and try to follow them to the point of having a working setup. As the writer of the guides, it's easy to unconsciously skim over important details that your brain automatically fills in because you already know how all of this stuff works. There's so much vagary in the videos and written guides that makes it extremely difficult to follow and understand how any of this is supposed to fit together. I have to assume that your testers (you've mentioned them in one of your videos) probably already know how to set these services up without the guides so indeed they also filled in the details that were lacking in the guides.

Especially frustrating is the fact that the guides for Traefik and Authelia both assume that the other service is already setup so I as the user am left to try to figure out how this basket is weaved together. I've been banging my head against a wall for the last 12 hours (that's not an exaggeration) trying to get any of this to work. I can't spend any more time on this so I'm forced to try to piece back together my original rev proxy setup and hope that my services still work. So, that's fun.

At the time of posting this allkeys generator from the docs is not available

8 mins into the video, I've already had three homework assignments lol I wish I had taken my computer science studies more seriously in college. THANK YOU for taking the time to walk morons like me through this stuff!

I had to change the path from being empty "" to "authelia"...right after the port in the configuration.yml (path: "authelia")

This is outdated now with the SWAG video... An update on how to use these with AUtoproxy would be pefect

No matter how many times I try, I keep getting to a point where I'm getting 403 errors whenever I put the endpoint info in (I'm using NPM) and it is breaking my brain

Thank you for great tutorials , i am very thankful, and one more thing i need tutorial for PFSENSE HAPROXY + AUTHELIA with complete info, thank you in advance

I really like the music you use. Kind of matrix like.

Step one, get a CS degree at the university of your choosing! I just want some authentication when accessing my web apps remotely without needing a vpn. How does that require hours of tutorials on installing multiple things and configuring yaml files?

I got this error from Redis logs (mkdir: cannot create directory '/bitnami/redis/data': Permission denied) how can i fix this?

Hi, i follow your guide to set up anthelia few month ago , but recently after an update the configuration file has changed and is not readable any more , i tried to apply the new changes but with no luck, can you please do an update

thanks for the guide, once I got money I will signup to help you create more

If anyone has issues running redis and gets error "mkdir: cannot create directory '/bitnami/redis': Permission denied"

You need to create the bitnami directory with correct permissions. Open the UnRaid terminal and type the follow commands, one line at a time.

cd mnt/user/appdata
sudo install -d -m 0755 -o 1001 -g 0 redis
cd redis/
sudo install -d -m 0755 -o 1001 -g 0 bitnami

So useful thank you! Ive now been shown how to buy a domain and set up subdomains for my various services i want exposed to the internet behind authelia through an argo tunnel. but how do i go about having my root domain address point to something? Right now it just defaults to a cloudflare bad gateway page. Be nice to even have it point to just some placeholder page or maybe even a hub to all the subdomains using something like heimdall somehow. I am not savvy enough to know how to do this however. thanks!

Please update your guide to include this fix to install error (taken from forum, but I cannot paste url, credits to sebz29a)

Run these before installing redis in the web terminal

> cd /mnt/user/appdata

> install -d -m 0755 -o 1001 -g 0 redis

> cd redis/

> install -d -m 0755 -o 1001 -g 0 bitnami

How and where does Authentik from CA install to? I can't see it in appdata and I want to know if/how it would get backed up using CA Backup and Restore

So I just walked through this process, and I think I have everything setup properly. However, when I try to go to the Authelia web UI, I get this error "There was an issue fetching the current user state" and the "loading" animated icon is the only thing displayed.

great hack, thanks you

if you are running into issue of " mkdir: cannot create directory '/bitnami/redis': Permission denied" on unraid 6.9+
delete the container and folders created for redis (won't work if folder exist)
use the terminal and cd into the folder in my case its (/mnt/user/appdata)
run
sudo install -d -m 0755 -o 1001 -g 0 redis
cd redis/
sudo install -d -m 0755 -o 1001 -g 0 bitnami
and then reinstall the redis container

something with the way unraid 6.9+ changed with container permission, giving the container privilege didnt work and this was a work around I found.

Can you show an example with say sonarr? I have followed this guide, added catch all rule to my domain and subdomains, but when I go to sonarr the authelia login screen does not show. Is there any configuration that needs to be done on the sonarr docker container maybe?

Video for putting your own softs on or is that possible. I can softbox so would like to up load my own softs.

I opened up a new project and deleted the area where you "paint" the soft and I don't know how to make it co back!! Lol

Stuck at redis setup. The appdata path is actualy included in this image now but I added /bitnami/ to the end since it is "/mnt/user/appdata/redis/" I have tried with and without "bitnami" at the end of the path and the container will not start. My logs keep giving me error: mkdir: cannot create directory '/bitnami/redis': Permission denied

Excellent video. Clearly explained all the basics to get started on soft soft. Thanks

When I added the GMS it softed completely different than yours. Yours softed more like a real app, wNice tutorialle mine softed very

Thanks mate

I have setup authelia one factor is working but two factor doesn't. Is redis required for two factor?

tho

Doesn’t tNice tutorials program cost like 100$ ?

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i can't get it to work because of an notification error, i get error 535 on smtp. normaly i use "Minder goed beveiligde apps en je Google-account" but that is disabled. dus anywane now an other way to get smtp to work?

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You never know how much you have in common with so people.

SO link is given below!!!

Do the basics first, if it would be easy, everyone would do it

I get the following error when trying to install redis:

"mkdir: cannot create directory '/bitnami/redis': Permission denied"

Is anyone able to offer any assistance with overcoming this? Thanks

Am I crazy or is the Unraid password hash command missing?

Thank you very much for this guide! Everything is working except the rules for internal IPs, i think it is because i use Cloudflare (i used your other guide for this too :P).
In Authelia's logs, it seems to only see the Cloudflare IPs, not the real ones. If anyone got ideas to solve this, please let me know !

Hey, since the new update we now get this message:

"Configuration: configuration key 'authentication_backend.disable_reset_password' is deprecated in 4.36.0 and has been replaced by 'authentication_backend.password_reset.disable': this has been automatically mapped for you but you will need to adjust your configuration to remove this message"

Could the description and docs be updated to accommodate this?

Unfortunately I got authelia setup and started without issue, until I received a 'request header too large' trying to reach the webpage.

I disabled the email/smtp as I could not get gmail to work, but I assume that is unrelated.

Hi, love your videos, at least the few I have watched but I am already playing with OpenLDAP so keen for you to do the guide.

followed you tutorial step by step, still got error

level=error msg="Configuration: storage: option 'encryption_key' must is required"
level=fatal msg="Can't continue due to the errors loading the configuration"

i did using more than 20 char to encryption_key in storage section, did i miss something ?


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so i did some misconfiguration, somehow container authelia still using template configuration, so i just copy the real configuration to /opt/appdata/authelia

I don't know what was happenning. I wound up having to remove autheila and all the endpoint protection from NGINX. I copied the config files to my computer for the time being. I was getting an error 500 (I think) from NGINX. NGINX worked after the removal of the advanced configs. This all started after upgrading container as requested by Unraid Rod My intentions is to reistall unraid and copy the config files into place where they were before the uninstall.

Adding a persistent volume for Redis causes Redis to not even start up. Logs "mkdir: cannot create directory '/bitnami/redis': Permission denied"

Nice video. I love your step-by-step approach. Do you know how i can log out of an application if i use Authelia 1or 2 factor authentication to log in? I can log in but i can't log out since the app i use it for doesn't have a login method.