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Can CloudFlare use different origins based on path pattern?
This is something that they recently started offering as an enterprise feature see:
https://support.cloudflare.com/hc/en-us/articles/206190798-Using-Resolve-Override-in-Page-Rules
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Cloudflare DNS: How to 301 Redirect all traffic from Sub Domain to Main Domain with URL path?
The error you are receiving is because CNAME's only support domain names and not URL paths. You can setup a redirect using your hosting account or Cloudflare Page Rules.
14 Step Cloudflare Process ...
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Facebook crawler with no user agent spamming our site in possible DoS attack
Sources say that Facebook/Externalhit does not respect crawl-delay in robots.txt because Facebook doesn't use a crawler, it uses a scraper.
Whenever one of your pages is shared on Facebook, it ...
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Untrusted Cloudflare SSL Certificate
Your invalid certificate authority error is due to the fact that CloudFlare issued it, not because of how you were routing traffic. This is because you used a type of certificate meant only to secure ...
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How can CloudFlare offer a free CDN with unlimited bandwidth?
CloudFlare is a caching proxy so egress (out) typically exceeds ingress (in), usually by around 4-5x. Our bandwidth bill is therefore calculated on egress so we don't pay for ingress. This is part of ...
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Subdomain on another server cPanel A Record & Cloudflare
Since your DNS will be hosted with Cloudflare, you must create an A RECORD within Cloudflare and then within cPanel you must make a subdomain or in WHM another account. There are no DNS entries ...
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Is an .htaccess edit necessary when enabling Cloudflare SSL?
It's really to do with when the redirect occurs.
WordPress/PHP naturally occurs later than .htaccess, so the HTTP request has already passed to PHP before the redirect occurs.
.htaccess is processed ...
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Can you hide a server IP address using Cloudflare?
You can host your website anywhere with good connectivity and get good rankings for a particular area - Google likely keys off the domain suffix more then the IP address (which hints at actual ...
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Untrusted Cloudflare SSL Certificate
I found the answer here: https://support.cloudflare.com/hc/en-us/articles/200170566-Why-isn-t-SSL-working-for-my-site-
Your domain/sub-domain is not active on Cloudflare’s network
Cloudflare’s ...
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CloudFlare DNS: How to setup a GitHub Repository to a custom sub domain?
This can easily be done by adding a few settings to CloudFlare and then later GitHub.
7 Steps on adding a subdomain to CloudFlare
Login to Cloudflare
Use the drop-down menu in the upper left of your ...
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Should I worry about exposing my server's IP address?
"Are there any security concerns or general risks associated with exposing a server's IP address" - yes
A server can often run more then one service, including mistakenly exposing services ...
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Disable __cfduid cookie from Cloudflare
Steps for disabling a cookie -- php. I cant take credit for this its not my fix but im happy to spread the wealth.
function deleteSpecificCookies() {
var cookies = document.cookie.split(";");
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Disable __cfduid cookie from Cloudflare
What is the problem with this cookie? You are using their service and want to benefit from their service and their security – according to Cloudflare, this cookie helps especially for security reasons....
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Cloudflare: Cache static HTML when URL has Query String
(Answer added for @Festus Martingale to mark question as answered).
Replacing the ? with a # solved the problem as it prevents the query string from being transmitted to cloudflare as it appears as a ...
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Cloudflare not redirecting to HTTPS
If you are having problems with the "Automatic HTTPS Rewrites" Cloudflare option then it maybe that CF is unable to determine whether your site/resources are HTTPS enabled. From the CF docs ...
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CloudFlare isn't working as CDN
You're likely using a geolocation service to determine the location of the IP address. This may not accurately tell you where the server for that IP is located - Cloudflare owns large IP blocks. These ...
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CloudFlare isn't working as CDN
In addition to Yhorian's explanation, you can find which Cloudflare's datacentre you're being routed to looking at the output of a request to https://yourdomainoncloudflare.com/cdn-cgi/trace, as ...
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How does Cloudflare do HTTPS for my site when I haven't provided them with an ssl certificate?
As NuTTyX as said your name is in the SAN section.
You can see it quickly that way:
$ openssl s_client -connect copyurls.ml:443 -servername copyurls.ml -showcerts </dev/null |& grep -A100 '...
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Configuring SMTP through Cloudflare
In order for Cloudflare to route mail to the correct location, the MX record should point to the server that manages your mail.
MX example.com mail.example.com Auto 0 DNS only
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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?
Improving Performance
The answer comes down to a balancing act. In addition to your JS, I would also pay just as much attention to your CSS.
You used to be able self host anything that is not a ...
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DNS changes on cloudflare to verify domain for SSL not reflecting
I just found solution to my problem, if you add CNAME record to cloudflare and its Proxied then it will show as A record when you check propagation on dnschecker.org in order for it to work as CNAME ...
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How can I enable "Avg Page Load Time (sec)" and "Avg Page Download Time(sec)" in my Google Analytics?
The second screenshot you have provided comes from Analytics. You can find it under Behavior>Site Speed>Page Timings.
However, the first screenshot I believe is from the legacy version of ...
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Cloudflare WAF rule for blocking a path except from two countries instead block all traffic to the site
This is the easy way, supported in all cases. Limit Hostname with equals example.com, URI Path with contains /wp-admin or /wp-admin/ (this is shown in the screenshot below), and Country with is not in ...
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Is there a CAPTCHA Challenge when using Cloudflare CDN?
When you visited ChatGPT, you likely ran into CloudFlare's Turnstile challenge. While strictly speaking Turnstile is a CAPTCHA due to its challenge-response pattern, CloudFlare markets it as not a ...
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Can CloudFlare use different origins based on path pattern?
You could use cloudflare workers: https://developers.cloudflare.com/workers/recipes/conditional-routing/
For your use case you could use the provided example, but change the logic to inspect the url ...
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Analytics: CloudFlare vs Google - What discrepancy is too big?
it's not that difficult to understand why Cloudflare numbers are so much higher than you GA. the reason is being that Cloudflare is a middle man. let me explain in detail.
You see when someone go to ...
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Safely turning off CloudFlare?
Turning off Cloudflare should not cause any trouble. Cloudflare has a TTL of 5 minutes on its nameserver records, so within 5 minutes of gray-clouding a domain the domain records will be updated so ...
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Subdomain on another server cPanel A Record & Cloudflare
Just to add to the above, when you are creating the subdomain, you should probably add it to /public_html root folder (easier to access and set up)
For what it's worth, when I add subdomains in ...
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So is Cloudflare now setting up HTTPS for websites?
Yes cloudflare gives free SSL to all paid and free customers.
The things you need to do is.
Add your CNAME or A records in your cloudflare DNS pannel. So if you're using www subdomain then make sure ...
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How can I force Blogger's 'search widget' to use HTTPS?
...and, of course, within 2 minutes of posting the question, I've found it.
Log into Blogger, Layout, Navbar, Edit, and there's an option to switch the navbar off.
D'oh.
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