Title: Cloudflare
Last modified: August 21, 2016

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# Cloudflare

 *  Resolved [Terence Milbourn](https://wordpress.org/support/users/pubdirltd/)
 * (@pubdirltd)
 * [11 years, 9 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/cloudflare-5/)
 * Does this work when both nodes are behind CloudFlare’s reverse proxy?
 * When I tried to connect my first site with MainWP I got an immediate 523 error.
 * All my sites are behind CloudFlare’s reverse proxy, including the main node, 
   and so when I looked up CloudFlare on their site I found a workaround which said,
   basically, disable CloudFlare’s protection.
 * Now, call me old-fashioned if you like, but that doesn’t rate as much of a workaround
   in my book. Not even a kludge!
 * I have years of experience with multiple servers working with CloudFlare, so 
   its a ‘big ask’ to get me to switch off their security, which has saved several
   sites of mine on more than one occasion, and trust MainWP’s which, as far as 
   I am concerned, is a big unknown quantity.
 * So, how about a REAL solution from iControlWP? One like ~ if you just whitelist
   these IPs and do this or that, everything works fine and the error 523 goes away?
 * But not switch off Cloudflare’s security. That’s a non-starter, at least for 
   me it is.
 * [https://wordpress.org/plugins/worpit-admin-dashboard-plugin/](https://wordpress.org/plugins/worpit-admin-dashboard-plugin/)

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 *  Plugin Author [Paul](https://wordpress.org/support/users/paultgoodchild/)
 * (@paultgoodchild)
 * [11 years, 9 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/cloudflare-5/#post-5016425)
 * Hi Terence,
 * From the outset we’ve built the system to run with cloudflare as all of our sites
   are also on CloudFlare.
 * We have talked with CloudFlare itself about globally white-listing our IP addresses,
   but this is something they are reluctant to do in general.
 * You can add white lists to CloudFlare itself per-account, so if you do face issues,
   you can try that.
 * We have customers on cloudflare and they don’t have issues, and we also have 
   a cloudflare integration so you can manage certain cloudflare settings directly
   from within iControlWP itself:
    [http://www.icontrolwp.com/2014/02/integrate-cloudflare-icontrolwp/](http://www.icontrolwp.com/2014/02/integrate-cloudflare-icontrolwp/)
 * Hope that helps!
    Paul.

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 * Last activity: [11 years, 9 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/cloudflare-5/#post-5016425)
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