Cloudflare Settings

Description

Cloudflare is an American company providing CDN services, protection against DDoS attacks, secure access to resources and DNS servers. Cloudflare services work as a reverse proxy for the site.

1) Register on cloudflare.com

2) Add your site

3) Choose a plan (in our example, free)

4) Receive new NS

5) Change your NS to NS issued by Cloudflare

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Security level

Go to the section Security - Settings - Security Level

Here you can select the security level. Each page has tips and descriptions.

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Exception settings

Cloudflare blocks frequent requests, treating them as a flood on the server or DDoS

Currency rates, AJAX requests, in some cases requests from payment services.

To avoid this, you should add exceptions.

Go to the Rules section

1. Exceptions for payments:

Click the Create Page Rule button

Url: yourdomain.com/api/changers/* (yourdomain.com - replace with your site URL)

Then the settings are + Add a Settings - click

Browser Integrity Check: OFF

Always Online: OFF

Security Level: Medium или OFF

Cache Level: Bypass

Web Application Firewall: OFF - available for paid plans

2. Exceptions for CRON:

Click the Create Page Rule button

Url: yourdomain.com/api/cron/* (yourdomain.com - replace with your site URL)

Settings are identical to those entered above

3. Exceptions for AJAX requests:

Click the Create Page Rule button

Url: yourdomain.com/ajax/* (yourdomain.com - replace with your site URL)

Settings are identical to those entered above

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Authorization

If authorization fails when using the Cloudflare service, then in the file vucmsconf.inc.php (located in the root) find:

$CFG['authadmin'] = 'cookie'; Replaced by: $CFG['authadmin'] = 'session'; We are not committed to customizing Cloudflare for each client. There is a detailed guide Setting up Cloudflare by our employee is a paid service.