At the time of posting, there is a feature request on the cPanel website which, if approved, would enable the admin of a cPanel server to have CPHULK act on the content of the X-Forwarded-For header in HTTP requests. https://features.cpanel.net/topic/have-option-for-cphulkd-to-action-on-x-forwarded-for cPanel feel this is a bad idea because the X-Forwarded-For header is easily spoofed. Which could lead to all sorts … Read More
Batch Editing CloudFlare DNS IP with CloudFlare API in PHP
We have a lot of websites behind CloudFlare’s excellent firewall system. Sometimes we need to move a server to a new IP address necessitating the manual modification of a large number of CloudFlare DNS records in a large number of CloudFlare Zones. CloudFlare is great in that if you modify a DNS record the effect is immediate – so a … Read More
CloudFlare Free Full SSL; Not As Secure As You Think?
CloudFlare offer the option to provide SSL for your website without the hassle or expense of obtaining an SSL certificate. It really is quite a hassle and it’s definitely expensive (relatively) so this is brilliant, especially as Google do rate an SSL site higher than a non-SSL one. All you have to do is put your site behind CloudFlare and … Read More
CloudFlare & WHM/cPanel Apache Server Firewall Conflict
CloudFlare adds another level of security and resilience in front of our dedicated server. It’s an excellent idea and for basic use, it’s completely free. Fab. However, there’s a problem. Because all server traffic which is routed via CloudFlare effectively comes from CloudFlare, and because it’s imperative CloudFlare’s IP address ranges are never blocked (because one bad apple would spoil … Read More