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Contents 1 How to Contribute 2 Featured Topics 2.1 Adding a Website to your CloudFlare Account 2.2 Making your Site Faster 2.3 Making your Site Safer 2.4 Making your Site Smarter 2.5 CloudFlare Settings 2.6 Pro Accounts 3 Troubleshooting 4 Drupal Users 5 WordPress Users 6 MyBB Users 7 Hosting Partners 8 CloudFlare APIs

How to Contribute

Currently, anyone that is logged in to their CloudFlare account can browse and edit the wiki.

Featured Topics

Adding a Website to your CloudFlare Account

• What is DNS and why do I need to change it?
• What subdomains are appropriate for orange / gray clouds?
• Which ports does CloudFlare work with?
• How do I find my DNS zone file with my existing DNS provider?
• How do I change my name servers with my registrar?
• Where can I find out if CloudFlare is having system issues?
• I've donated MX records to Project Honey Pot. Do I need to add them?
• Does CloudFlare work with Dynamic DNS? Can I update my DNS records remotely?
• If I activate CloudFlare through my hosting provider, how do I add a redirect to 'www' in my .htaccess file?
• I'm changing my Hosting Provider or Registrar. How should I handle my CloudFlare account?

Making your Site Faster

• How does CloudFlare make my site faster?
• Does CloudFlare cache HTML content?
• How long does it take for CloudFlare to cache content?
• Why is site speed important for SEO?
• Web Content Optimization (WCO) features

Making your Site Safer

• CloudFlare Dashboard
  • Types of Threats
  • Meaning behind Threat Score
  • I see a long list of IPs in my Dashboard when I log in. What do I need to do?
• Threat Control panel
  • My Block List
  • My Trust List
• How to Block Countries on A Site-by-Site Basis
• Recently Challenged IPs
• How does CloudFlare know which IPs to challenge?
• Can I change the challenge page I present to my visitors?
• Too many of my visitors are getting a challenge page. What should I do?
• Why should web admins or bloggers care about botnets?

Making your Site Smarter

• Reports & Stats: Who What and Where
• Page views & Hits: Comparing Apache logs vs CloudFlare numbers
• Stats & Reports: What does Alerts and Website Down mean?

CloudFlare Settings

Settings Overview

• Cache Purge: Information about clearing your CloudFlare cache.
• Development Mode:Temporarily enter development mode for your websites.
• IPv6 Gateway: Automatically enable IPv6 networking.
• Outbound links: Tracks where your users go when they leave your site.
• Always Online: Keeps your site online, even if your server goes down
• IP Geolocation: Enables IP geolocation lookups on visitors.

Security Settings

• Basic Security Level: Adjust your basic security level to modify CloudFlare's protection behavior.
• I'm Under Attack Mode: CloudFlare's DDoS Mitigation tool
• Challenge Page TTL : Specify how long a visitor is allowed access to your site after successfully completing a challenge (such as a CAPTCHA).
• Customize Challenge Page: Customize the CloudFlare challenge (CAPTCHA) page to mimic the look and feel of your site.
• Email Address Obfuscation: Scrambles emails on your web pages to stop bots from spamming them.
• Server Side Exclude (SSE): Hides specified content from suspicious visitors
• Browser Integrity Check: Evaluates HTTP headers for threat signatures.
• Hotlink Protection: Protects images from off-site linking.
• Advanced Security: Information about CloudFlare's Web Application Firewall (WAF)

Performance Settings

• Caching Level: Adjust your CloudFlare caching level
• Minimum Expire TTL: Specify how long CloudFlare-cached resources will remain on your visitors' computers.
• Auto Minify: Minify your JavaScript and CSS fields for faster page loads.
• Rocket Loader: Asynchronously load your JavaScript files for faster page loads.
• Preloader: Information about CloudFlare's caching pre-loader.

Pro Accounts

• What is the pricing for a PRO account?
• How do I upgrade to a PRO account?
• What features are in the PRO account that aren't in the free version?
• How much does it cost for SSL support?
• Where can I find my billing history?
• Which payment methods can I use for a PRO account?
• Are there any contracts for PRO accounts?
• How do I cancel my PRO account?
• How do I add SSL support for a domain?
• What is the difference between the three SSL settings?

Troubleshooting

• I keep seeing My Site is Offline or Website Currently Unavailable
• How to perform a traceroute
• What are the CloudFlare IP address ranges?
• My visitor IP logs look different or they have disappeared, What do I do?
  • Apache users
  • LiteSpeed WebServer
  • nginx
  • Cherokee
  • cPanel
  • Drupal
  • Forums Based on PHP
  • Joomla
  • LiveZilla 3.1.8.6
  • MediaWiki 1.15.4
  • MyBB 1.6
  • PHPbb 3.0.7 PL1
  • PHPbb 2.0.23
  • SMF
  • WordPress
  • vBulletin 3.8.4
  • vBulletin 4.1.5
  • XenForo
  • WindowsIIS
  • Invision Power Board 3

• Why can't I access my cPanel?
• A subdomain on my site isn't working
• SSL connections aren't working on my site
• Where can I find CloudFlare system status updates?
• Cross-domain AJAX request fails

Drupal Users

• CloudFlare Drupal Module

WordPress Users

• CloudFlare WordPress Plugin
• CloudFlare and W3 Total Cache (W3TC) Plugin
• CloudFlare DNS and the Wordpress Dashboard
• Wordpress Blog seems slower
• VaultPress

MyBB Users

• IP Fix

Hosting Partners

• Useful Resources for Hosting Partners

CloudFlare APIs

Documentation on how you can interface with CloudFlare from your own programs.

• Client Interface API: Updating CloudFlare Settings like DNS record, Threat Control listings, Security Level, Cache Purge, Development Mode, etc.
• Hosting Provider API: API for Hosting Providers to Enable CloudFlare for Their Clients