From 3c415cd8e4d89953b660f6f2378f0d40fdeff852 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Lorenzo Buchanan Date: Thu, 18 Sep 2025 06:56:42 -0500 Subject: [PATCH] Update README.md --- README.md | 5 ++++- 1 file changed, 4 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-) diff --git a/README.md b/README.md index 39d2359..1bc7a43 100644 --- a/README.md +++ b/README.md @@ -99,7 +99,10 @@ After successfully adding the required files from Step 3 above, you can start to ### Setup Backend for Authentik You need to setup a backend for Authentik. To do so, go to `Services -> HAProxy -> Backend` and add a backend. -For the backend I will simply name mine as `authentik-http`, feel free to name your backend whatever you want. This name will be relevant later on in the documentation so remember it. You will also need to populate the Address and Port fields with the IP address of your Authentik instance and the port for http, then save. See image below for reference\ +For the backend I will simply name mine as `authentik-http`, feel free to name your backend whatever you want. This name will be relevant later on in the documentation so remember it. You will also need to populate the Address and Port fields with the IP address of your Authentik instance and the port for ***HTTP***, then save. See image below for reference. + +***IMPORTANT: the port you are using for your Authentik backend MUST be the HTTP port... NOT HTTPS.*** + ![8.png](/images/8.png) ### Setup backend you want to protect