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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,…
Justin
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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…
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Squid Forward Proxy on Cloudflare
Is it possible to set up a forward proxy using Squid and still have Cloudflare CDN working?
For example, I currently have Squid running on Ubuntu, with this being the squid.conf file.
acl myhost srcdomain [my domain] http_access allow myhost…
bluegreen672
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Hide my real ip with Cloudflare
I have a VPS and I want to hide IP with cloudflare.
IP: 127.0.0.1
NS: ns1.domain.com
So I created an account and change the nameservers but when I check with ping or whois service, it returns MY ip with the cloudflare nameservers...
IP:…
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Blocking the IP of the server
I want to prevent browsing and access to my server "using the server's IP" and that the traffic of visitors is only through the cloudflare, is there any way to do that?
HATEM
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CNAME set, but ignored. How to purge wrong DNS A record?
I have configured a subdomain blog.example.net with dreamhost like this
blog CNAME mygreatblog.ghost.io
meaning blog.example.net points to mygreatblog.ghost.io via a CNAME record.
I can confirm the properly set CNAME…
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How to Set PTR Record?
I have a domain from Godaddy, its application runs at Google Compute Engine and is traffic controlled by Cloudflare.
For sometime now we have observed decrease in our mails deliverability to users inbox. One of the method to resolve the issue is to…
Abhishek Agarwal
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Cloudflare or Apache vhost misconfiguration?
I have setup a website in cloudflare that pointing website3.com to xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx IP address.
In my apache, I have existing website1.com and website2.com vhost (website 1 and 2 are using digital ocean DNS). I created a new vhost for website3.
But…
Manjok
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Dynamically created webpage without a subdomain
Im having a really hard time configuring cloudflare properly so any help is much appreciated.
I have a web application that creates a unique database for each user, example :
the application is installed on example.com. Once the user user1 signs up,…
Tom
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Nameservers with CloudFlare
I want to make a hosting service but I don't want to expose my IP address.
So, I set my account up at cloudflare and setup the DNS records on cloudflare and set my host up.
But now, I can't seem to get the nameservers up without getting my IP…
Min Gu Kang
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