Community Tutorials

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These tutorials have now been deprecated, please see the resources below.

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Most of the posts in the tutorials category are written by the community, they are also mostly wiki posts and can be edited and contributed to by Regulars and MVPs.

This is a list of the community written tutorials:

Getting Started Tutorials

Setup:

• Step 1: Adding your domain to Cloudflare

• Step 2: Setting up SSL with Cloudflare

• Step 3: Enabling the ‘Orange Cloud’

• Step 4: Checking your site after adding it to Cloudflare

Other:

• How to eliminate (or minimise) downtime when adding your domain to Cloudflare

• Configuring Cloudflare Access to protect an area of your website

• Finding the IP address of your Cloudflare Nameserver

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https://developers.cloudflare.com/

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SSL/TLS Tutorials

• Deprecated - SSL/TLS app Settings

• Deprecated - Troubleshooting SSL/TLS issues

• Deprecated - SSL/TLS not working on subdomain

• Deprecated - Subdomain too deep

• Deprecated - Cloudflare Universal and Universal (Shared) Certificates

• Deprecated - Setting SSL/TLS Mode using Page Rules

• Why you should choose Full Strict, and only Full Strict

DNS Tutorials

• Deprecated - The DNS App

• Deprecated - Adding DNS Records

• Deprecated - Editing DNS Records

• Deprecated - An A, AAAA or CNAME record was not found

• Deprecated - An A, AAAA, CNAME, or MX record is pointed to your origin server exposing your origin IP address

• Deprecated - Email Troubleshooting

• Deprecated - Moving your site to a new host

• Teamspeak Setup

• Deprecated - Finding Deleted DNS Records

• Deprecated - Verifying propagation and caching issues when troubleshooting

• Deprecated - Creating DNS Records in Cloudflare for a Minecraft Server

• Deprecated - Fixing Error 1000 - DNS points to prohibited IP

• Deprecated - Adding Verification Records

Firewall Tutorials

• Viewing the Rule ID of a Firewall Rule

• Deprecated - Sorry, you have been blocked

• Deprecated - Bot Fight Mode

• Firewall Tips

  • [FirewallTip] HTTP and a welcome to 1996 - checking the HTTP version
  • [FirewallTip] May I have your scheme? - checking the protocol part of the referrer URL
  • [FirewallTip] Grown up referrers - checking the hostname of th referrer URL
  • [FirewallTip] Agent: incognito - checking the user agent
  • [FirewallTip] Benefit of the doubt - robots.txt
  • [FirewallTip] wp-dave's not here
  • [FirewallTip] User agent pt. 2 - It's Mozillaaaaa - checking the user agent, reloaded

Page Rule Tutorials

• Deprecated - Using page rules to perform redirects

• Deprecated - Redirect example.com to www.example.com

• Deprecated - Redirect www.example.com to example.com

• Deprecated - Redirecting One Domain to Another

• Deprecated - Using Wildcards in Page Rules

• Forward A Subdomain To Discord

Frequently Asked Question Tutorials

• Deprecated - Why flexible SSL mode is not the best choice

• Deprecated - Peering - Why don't I reach the closest datacenter to me?

• Deprecated - Zone Banned and/or Other Zone Restricted Errors

• Deprecated - Mixed Content

• Deprecated - Using Developer Tools in your browser to troubleshoot issues

• Security in place to prevent Domain Hijacking

• Deprecated - Under DDoS Attack! First steps

• Deprecated - Why does a DNS lookup on my domain not return the IP address I configured?

• Deprecated - Why does my site return a US IP address?

• Deprecated - Cloudflare IP Address Blocked

• Deprecated - The orange to orange problem

• Deprecated - Can't set nameservers - (Inconsistent Set of NS / Nameserver not authoritative)

• How to prevent your emails from going to spam

• https://community.cloudflare.com/t/super-bot-fight-mode-what-to-know/376991

External Related Tutorials
These are tutorials written by members of our community on other forums that demonstrate how to integrate Cloudflare’s services with external, unaffiliated platforms.

• How to Use Cloudflare for SSL @ 000webhost.com

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