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Access my server through SSH with the domain (with Cloudflare)
I have this server (44.44.44.44, for instance) running a webserver. I have routed pollnote.com to the server to access my webserver. Everything works fine.
To access the server, I added my Public Key to .ssh/authorized_keys so I can do ssh…
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Using namecheap dns with cloudflare
Since CloudFlare doesn't provide E-mail forwarding I need to leave my DNS management on Namecheap.
What DNS records (A,CNAME,...) would I need to point to CloudFlare (and to where) to be able to still use their functionality whilst leaving the rest…
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Does cloudflare know the decrypted content when using a https connection?
CloudFlare provides ssl support. However, if a visitor visits a website protected by CloudFlare, is CloudFlare able to know the plain data transfered during this visit?
There are a few SSL options:
Flexible SSL
Full SSL
Full SSL (strict)
I know…
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Is it possible to avoid costs for invalid requests at AWS S3 or cloudfront during a DDoS attack?
There are many tutorials in the internet, that promote cheap hosting of static websites via AWS S3 + AWS Cloudfront (+ Cloudflare).
Example of these would be:
Host a website using S3, CloudFront and CloudFlare
How to host a website on S3?
I was…
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Redirect loop using cloudflare's Flexible ssl
I am trying to implement Flexible SSL provided by CloudFlare to my site.
Here is my nginx config:
# PHP-FPM upstream; change it accordingly to your local config!
upstream php-fpm {
server 127.0.0.1:9000;
}
server {
listen 80;
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How do I deny all requests not from cloudflare?
I've recently gotten denial of service attacks from multiple proxy ips, so I installed cloudflare to prevent this. Then I started noticing that they're bypassing cloudflare by connecting directly to the server's ip address and forging the host…
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Setting up CloudFlare with Route 53?
I'm trying to get CloudFlare to sit in front of Route 53. I have my main web server on an ELB (which doesn't have an IP address). CloudFlare needs an IP for an A record, so how can I accomplish this?
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Using CloudFlare as the only load balancer
Say I have 3 VPS nodes with Linode to serve traffic on a single website. Linode themselves provide a node balancing solution.
But I use CloudFlare and was wondering after I read their blog article on their architecture if it was necessary to use…
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Amazon S3 appears to be blocking cloudflare IP addresses. How do I fix it?
I have static content that is being served by Cloudflare. Cloudflare points to Amazon S3 to pick up the static content and serves it via a CNAME (cdn.mydomain.com). The bucket is setup properly and everything was working fine for months until…
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Using dd-wrt Dynamic DNS client with CloudFlare
I'm trying to configure Dynamic DNS client on my router with dd-wrt (v24-sp2) firmware so it would dynamically change IP address in one of the DNS records. Unfortunately I encountered a problem… Here is an example request from their ddclient…
Roman
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How to make Google Cloud Load Balancer respect the received X-Forwarded-Proto?
My app structure uses GKE and CloudFlare. It looks like this:
CloudFlare -> GKE -> Ingress -> My app running nginx
I'm using the flexible SSL in CloudFlare, so only the connection between the user and CloudFlare uses HTTPS, all the remaining uses…
Vítor Baptista
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Cloudflare doesn't cache as expected
I'm wondering why Cloulflare would not cache a certain static js file.
Given the reuqest:
curl -I http://www.testlifeinuk.com/dist/lifeinuk.js
the headers returned like:
HTTP/1.1 200 OK
Date: Mon, 12 Jan 2015 10:59:21 GMT
Content-Type:…
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Adding CloudFlare to S3 bucket
I have an Amazon S3 bucket that contains thousands of JPGs and similar media assets. (It's the storage for my forums.) I don't host a static site in this bucket (no HTML of any kind) and it's completely open for the public to read (so the forum…
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Domain Ownership error. No CNAME records were found. Please add a CNAME record pointing to myapp.azurewebsites.net
I am trying to set up the urls https://www.mywebsite.net.au and https://mywebsite.net.au to work for my Azure App Service using with Cloudflare.
Where mywebsite represents my web site name.
Currently when I go to this url I get a 404 error.
In…
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Is it possible for CloudFlare to get content from 8080 and serve it on 80?
Is it possible for CloudFlare to get content my server provides over port 8080 and serve it on port 80 to users?
For instance, I have the following IP address 0.0.0.0 and domain example.ga (registered with CloudFlare). Can CloudFlare retrieve…
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