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Blocking "malicious" VPN access

I run a small website that averages about 500 hits a day. About once a month I have a day where I see a spike of 5,000 in GA4. When looking closer, the traffic would appear to be a bot using a VPN ...
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How can I add HTTP headers in Cloudflare?

I have a Cloudflare website and it is hosted on Cloudflare Pages, but I want to add HTTP headers to this website. There are a lot of DNS and HTTP related settings in Cloudflare. I am undecided which ...
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Is there a CAPTCHA Challenge when using Cloudflare CDN?

I am considering using Cloudflare CDN for my own website, which has a user base of 10.000 people. It's used world-wide, and there is a lot of room for caching, thus I wanted to use a CDN. However, I ...
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Frequently Getting the Error Message "too many requests"

Within the last 2 months the error message "too many requests" has started showing up for those using my site. The site is hosted on a server with a 32 core CPU and 64 GB of RAM. The site ...
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Cloudflare Api Status Endpoint

Note: This was also posted in Cloudflare community forum. In case they answer there, I will update this post. I've set up health checks in my applications, and the ones integrated with the Cloudflare ...
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Use Cloudflare WAF to block all URLs except home page and one subdirectory

I want to block all paths except /English/ and the home page www.example.com in Cloudflare WAF. If I allow the English category, I would expect access to be allowed to all URLs from this category. The ...
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Solution for real time image resizing

I've recently taken over an ecommerce website (example.com) and I'm looking to make some improvements to how media files are delivered. Currently when an image is uploaded for a product, the process ...
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Domain used for Gmail (G Suite/Workspace) Expired, re-bought via Cloudflare and now seeing weird SSL Certs

So long story short: for a long time I've had domain (basic website + G-Suite email) for an LLC (let's say example.com) that I used to use for freelance gigs. I stopped doing much freelance stuff ...
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cloudflare pages github Installation on this account is prohibited

I want to deploy a static html website that I have in my github.com repo to Cloudflare Pages. So I logged into Cloudflare, then I went to Workers & Pages>Pages>Connect to Git>Github as ...
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Google Search console: Blocked due to access forbidden (403) when blocking all country except (India, Srilanka)

I am a very old user of cloudflare for the last 4 Years, I have 14+ websites of different categories which has have added to cloudflare last year. My website was accessible and ranked on google which ...
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Prevent content scraping that automatically post from one website to another

Basically, my website is running on WordPress platform and we publish posts on regular basis. As soon as we publish a post, in a few minutes time it gets posted on their website as well The worst part ...
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Ahrefs.com Site Audit quite often incorrectly reports broken links to NextJS JavaScript files

Our site uses NextJS. When the site is rebuilt after code changes, the links to JavaScript files change. Quite often, the Ahrefs.com site audit crawl detects links to broken JS files. Every time I ...
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Using CloudFlare with GitHub Pages and SSL/TLS Full or Full (Strict) and Proxied DNS prevents GitHub Pages' Certificate Renewal

I am hosting my personal webpage on GitHub Pages with a custom domain and using CloudFlare for DNS etc. I am using the Full (Strict) mode for TLS/SSL and Proxied DNS. When The GitHub Pages tries to ...
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If I'm using a CDN should I host my images (the originals) at high resolution and no compression?

I'm about to start testing W3 Total Cache plugin for WordPress with Cloudflare for CDN. Is there any downside (other than file size/space on server) to hosting the original images that the CDN uses to ...
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Which method is the best way to configure Cloudflare encryption for my Blogger blog?

I have a blog on Blogger.com with my own custom domain. I am trying to enable encryption along with always on HTTPS, but it seems there are two methods for doing what I want: Disabled HTTPS Redirect ...
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SEO effect for Blocking entire site for a country and allowing only one page

Need your valuable guidance. Suppose via Cloudflare if we add a redirect rule for a specific country. Where if any traffic comes from that country, it will get redirected to a special subfolder ...
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Should I enable cloudflare crawler hints with Yoast SEO?

I have a WordPress site, and I want to have more traffic. I already have Yoast SEO installed in WordPress. Should I also enable CloudFlare crawler hints, and can it cause security issues? I see the ...
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I have hosted a site which give reponse Blocked because of Dos Attack?

Website is hosted on Ubuntu server. Website dns is managed using cloudflare. Some time it throws page as the below image. I am not able to figure out from where is this page is coming from. how to ...
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CloudFlare-EC2-Wp Site goes down from time to time

Sometimes, my site goes down, and it comes back to work only after restarting the server, just as if nothing happened before. When the site stops working, I get the CloudFlare Site Not Available Page: ...
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How can I extract Cloudflares unique visitors through the GraphQL API?

What we’re trying to do is extract the ‘unique visitors’ from Cloudflare for a zone, which you can see through the UI in Cloudflare by clicking on the zone overview. We’re attempting to do this using ...
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Bing delisted site after Cloudflare Crawler Hints sent junk URLs to Bing via IndexNow

I found my site delisted by Bing after many years of being the top result for my search terms. This site is part of a WordPress network and the 100 or so other sites are unaffected. The only point of ...
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Cloudflare WAF rule for blocking a path except from two countries instead block all traffic to the site

I want Cloudflare WAF to restrict admin section of WordPress site/wp-admin/ and allow access to WP admin section from only two countries India & UAE. For some reason it block traffic from all ...
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Website not getting redirected from non-www to www URL

I am getting the error "This page is unavailable", when I am opening my website without "www". The website loads perfectly otherwise example.in (Website Loads Fine) www.example.in ...
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Nginx error 400 through Cloudflare

I recently added my site to Cloudflare and all of my subdomains like portainer and my file server are working however my main domain that points to my Nginx server returns "error 400 bad request ...
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Cache control headers vs using CDNs: What's the difference?

We want to implement caching to speed up the website performance. What would be beneficial in this case - using CDN or Cache control HTTP headers?
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Email from my Cloudflare server always go to spam folder of my recipient, how will I fix this?

All my emails are sent to spam folder of my recipients. I already set up SPF, DKIM, and DMARC on my cloudflare, however, still it didn't make any difference. Is there any alternative way to resolved ...
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Cloudflare transformation rules – how to create a rule for Google Workspace?

Cloudflare has recently introduced so-called transformation rules, with a limit of 10 rules per free account. They offer greater flexibility than redirect rules, and importantly they do not impact ...
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Is it possible to redirect Cloudflare's pages url to the main domain (from someurl.pages.dev to someurl.com)?

Is it possible to redirect example.pages.dev to example.com using Cloudflare's DNS dashboard or pages? So basically what I want is if someone visits example.pages.dev, the person should be redirected ...
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Cloudflare "can't provide a secure connection" to subdomain with www prefix

I have connected my site to the Cloudflare through A DNS record and CNAME too. For example: A domain.com 109.106.***.** Proxied Auto CNAME www domain.com Proxied Auto The site works very fine at all,...
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Why is my naked domain in blogger redirecting to discord.com and not to my www-domain?

The problem is that I added my custom domain name in blogger like google mentioned I added 4 "A" records and 2 "CNAME" but in the end I can't access my website through the naked ...
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503 Service Temporarily Unavailable nginx [closed]

how to fix this issues: when i use www.dbahack.com it show me this message "503 Service Temporarily Unavailable nginx" here is my DNS from cloudflare: [![enter image description here][2]][2]...
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Will Google Optimize work with server side caching and a CDN?

My website is using WordPress + WP Rocket Cache plugin + Cloudflare CDN Cache. Will Google Optmize works with such a case? In my understanding, as Google Optimize will change the web page source file, ...
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Mask web application ipaddress:port with domain name

I have a node js web application running on static ipaddress with port 4000. I can access my application on the internet successfully using port forwarding in router, now I want to mask my public ...
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Moved NS to CloudFlare error NS_BINDING_ABORTED - Headers missing

I’m configuring CloudFlare for the first time. I have a node.js application running on Digital Ocean providing API's. My Front End react app is hosted with Netlify on a different domain and was ...
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Why does my domain redirect in some browsers and not others?

I use three domains and two of them redirect to the third. Let's say they are A.org, B.org, and C.org. Last weekend, I changed the redirects from {A.org, B.org} -> C.org to {A.org, C.org} -> B....
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Cloudflare firewall rule blocks bot traffic only partially

We’ve got some trouble with bot traffic (likely scraping) on a website that’s hosted on a fairly small server. The bot requests a large set of changing pages in irregular intervals in the order of ~...
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How can I enable "Avg Page Load Time (sec)" and "Avg Page Download Time(sec)" in my Google Analytics?

I just read an article on Cloudflare. https://community.cloudflare.com/t/testing-argo-performance/3304 There is screenshot and two metrics are "Avg Page Load Time (sec)" and "Avg Page ...
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Cloudflare plus Nginx plus Tomcat - is Nginx redundant?

With my past project, I have Nginx serving static files as well as being a reverse proxy for Tomcat (backend written in Java). There was no Cloudflare or other CDN. With my current project, I have ...
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DNS changes on cloudflare to verify domain for SSL not reflecting

I am using the free version of Cloudflare for my website and I made DNS changes by adding a CNAME record to verify my domain for Ahrefs. Changes were done 2 hours ago, but they are not propagating on ...
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Combine Amazon Cloudfront with Cloudflare?

Has anyone tried to combine Amazon Cloudfront with Cloudflare, as below: In Cloudflare, add example.com to Cloudflare and update the DNS to proxy the website. In Amazon, add a Cloudfront distribution ...
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WHM upload CA root certificate to validate Cloudflare certificates

I'm using Cloudflare's self-signed certificates to encrypt traffic between Cloudflare and my origin web server. A problem that cPanel shows a No Valid Certificate for the domain and the error ...
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Create Subdomain on BigRock with Godaddy hosting

I have a domain on BigRock and hosting on GoDaddy. I am also using CloudFlare in between. Now I need to add a subdomain on BigRock which should also point to a subdomain on GoDaddy. I have created a ...
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For a website behind a CDN, does it make sense to combine JavaScript into one file and host it on my server?

Currently, my website loads JavaScript libraries from several CDN providers (cloudflare, unpckg, etc.) and it is working through a CDN (cloudflare). Does it make sense to combine all third-party ...
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Can I use Cloudflare to remove GPS location data from the EXIF metadata of images?

I'm running a website where users can upload photos. A lot of users don't realise that photos contain metadata like GPS location data. I would like to strip out the GPS location EXIF metadata from any ...
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litespeed cache works but after some time site gets to redirect into redirect loop

I have a WP one page website on which i enabled light speed cache plugin which improved site performance but on the other side side goes into redirect loop which crashes the site. I was not able to ...
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Hide site from google search if visitors country is not Ukraine

I want to hide site from another countries but not Ukraine. It has to be hidden in google search. I heard that it could be done with Cloudflare but I don't know how to do this.
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Is this possible to set up in the dns register other than the web hosting? [closed]

My domain is hosted in a domain name registry cloudflare and the website is hosted in the shopify. We have QR code tagged with each product selling in the shopify. If a customer scan it it will go to ...
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How can multiple subdomain be redirected to only one specific subdomain using CloudFlare?

How can i redirect multiple subdomain to one specific subdomain using CloudFlare page rule. Note: redirect without changing the URL path (only sub domain change) For example: sub1.site.example/...
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Cloudflare Pending validation error due to VirusTotal

My domain (quảcầu.cc/xn--qucu-hr5aza.cc) couldn't receive certification due to an error: When I checked with VirusTotal, only one security vendor flagged this URL as malicious. The rest flagged it ...
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Cloudflare free version asked to update name server again after 1 month for one of the domains [closed]

I have moved one of my website to use Free cloudflare CDN so i changed my Name servers on my registrar to point to cloudflare Name server When setting up i was asked to change name server to ...
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