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#19615 Cloudfare with Admin Tools - Anything to look out for?

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Latest post by user51324 on Wednesday, 19 March 2014 05:21 CDT

Tuesday, 18 March 2014 15:43 CDT

user51324
 Hello,

I'm with Siteground and thinking of using the Cloudfare CDN service.

Is there anything I should look out for, or are there any known issues when used with Admin Tools?

Wednesday, 19 March 2014 02:22 CDT

nicholas
It should work right out of the box. SiteGround has already done the necessary configuration on their servers.

Please note that with a CDN you will probably observe a slightly lower number of security exceptions. This is normal. Some malicious requests are blocked by CloudFlare and never make it to your server.

Nicholas K. Dionysopoulos

Lead Developer and Director

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Wednesday, 19 March 2014 04:12 CDT

user51324
Thanks for your rely Nicholas.

And no issue using the GeoIP blocking features (and GeoIP system plugin) of Admin Tools alongside CloudFlare? Will the correct IP address of users be detected by Admin Tools?

Wednesday, 19 March 2014 04:24 CDT

nicholas
The only thing that will not work is the Geographic IP blocking. CloudFlare serves your site's pages without going through your server. This means that Admin Tools does not have the chance to check the originating IP's country on every request and this feature cannot possibly work.

All other features regarding IP addresses (e.g. automatic block) will work, as CloudFlare is passing the original user's IP to SiteGround which is then passing it to PHP, so Admin Tools does see the real visitor's IP address.

Nicholas K. Dionysopoulos

Lead Developer and Director

🇬🇷Greek: native 🇬🇧English: excellent 🇫🇷French: basic • 🕐 My time zone is Europe / Athens
Please keep in mind my timezone and cultural differences when reading my replies. Thank you!

Wednesday, 19 March 2014 05:21 CDT

user51324
Makes perfect sense.

Thank you for you prompt and clear explanation.

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