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Why is my naked domain working when I only configured the www?
I set up my domain on heroku/cloudflare. In my heroku settings, my domain is listed as www.my-domain.example. While testing and iterating on configuration, I removed the other entry I had previously added for my-domain.example with its own DNS…
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hiding sensitive information from cdn provider
I have an app that I want to connect to cloudflare for cdn. However, Cloudflare handles the https encryption for me so I'm worried that user passwords may be logged.
What are some good practices for shielding sensitive information from cdn…
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OpenVPN not functioning as expected when running over secured connection
I have an OpenVPN server, hosted on an Azure VM.
I created an origin certificate on Cloudflare, and have imported the key and the certificate into OpenVPN successfully. The Origin CA was also copied to the VM. In the web server configurations,…
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can I re-add the original namesaver after adding cloudflare namesaver?
I have a webhosting website which will cause failure for clients who try creating sub-domain when I change my nameserver with cloudflare nameserver.
I am thinking to re-add my original nameserver after cloudflare verify my change of nameserver. Will…
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How to have good SSL/TLS certificates without proxying through cloudflare?
I currently have a site hosted on my local raspberry pi, and I have my domain registered through cloudflare. I would also like to be able to use PiVPN to access the contents of the VPS when I am away away from home. Unfortunately the CF proxy only…
Craig
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How to improve my current HA design
I am trying to create high availability application. My current design has two VMs, both have public IPs, both are running in same subnet and both VMs have same web application running in docker. ssl certs and traffic to the app in docker is managed…
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AWS SOA record from AWS to Cloudflare
I purchase a domain with AWS to try it out and edited the NS records with CloudFlare records, but I also have another entry for SOA, this is it:
Record type
SOA – Start of authority record
ns-501.awsdns-62.com. awsdns-hostmaster.amazon.com…
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Virtualmin + Nginx + SSL setup error with cloudflare 521
OS: Ubuntu 20.04
Installed Virtualmin + Nginx + PHP-FPM
Everything set up fine, however, when I installed SSL Certificate 3 month’s trial (Fully Valid Cert) not from Letsencrypt ( Reached limit ) everything works perfectly but, when I switch to…
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Forward SSH from Reverse Proxy Server through VPN to Home Server
I'm trying to set up GitLab on my home server. HTTPS is working and I can get to GitLab's interface, but SSH is not and thus I can't push code to the server.
Here is the setup:
Cloudflare <--> Reverse Proxy (nginx, hosted on Digital Ocean) <--- VPN…
Cody Dostal
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Multi DNS provider setup
If I setup DNS records for a zone to sync between AWS Route53 and Cloudflare, do I set the nameservers at my registar to both Cloudflare nameservers (brad.ns.cloudflare.com, beth.ns.cloudflare.com) and AWS route53 nameservers (ns-1232.awsdns-26.org,…
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How to use Letsencrypt to domain that has no root folder with Cloudflare?
I am trying to use Letsencrypt (HTTPS) on my website with Cloudflare (HTTP) but I confuse with this.
the domain doesn't have a root folder
accessing domain will be redirected to one of subdomains
domain.com -> sub1.domain.com
I have many…
Ferdy Sopian
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Why is my moved domain still serving a placeholder from the previous hosting company?
This may be basic stuff, but I'm a programmer, so fairly technical on the server/systems side, but not proficient.
I've moved two domainnames from one hosting to another, and can't get one to work. The domainname is cvnp.be and as you can see, it…
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SPF, CloudFlare, Google Apps - Email sent through Contact Form marked as spam
One of the main reasons of putting your server behind CloudFlare is to hide your server's IP address so an attacker can't DDoS your IP and render CloudFlare obsolete. By putting your server behind CloudFlare their IPs are exposed to the outside…
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Creating DNS CNAME or MX aliases
How can I create a CNAME or an MX record alias, for example, I need smtp.mydomain.com to resolve to smtp.yandex.com so that on my email client I should enter smtp.mydomain.com instead of smtp.yandex.com. I am using CloudFlare as my DNS manager and…
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Is this a DDoS attack? It's been overr 48 hours. What do I do?
I run a Wordpress on EC2 at AWS and I am facing the following issue:
More than 2 days ago, the CPU went straight to 100% and the load balance up to ~20+ (for a 4-vcpu server) out of the blue.
Being unable to understand what is going on, I activated…
