Global key for APO on a subdomain

Performance
#1

Hi, everyone!

I’m planning to enable APO on a subdomain. According to the documentation, this will require using Global API key to authenticate in the plugin (and plugin-less APO is evidently going away). I have reasonable concerns about the security of Wordpress (more specifically – its various plugins), and the website is operated by a somewhat independent entity. Therefore I’d like not to save the Global key in Wordpress unless absolutely necessary. Would I be able to replace this after setup is complete with a regular per-zone API token? Any other hints how to make this setup more secure?

Thank you.

#2

That might be old documentation. As I recall, APO works with Tokens:
https://developers.cloudflare.com/automatic-platform-optimization/get-started/activate-cf-wp-plugin

I didn’t even think APO would work without a plugin. Do you have a link that explains this? Another user looks to have APO enabled on a subdomain (under a domain with the plugin) and it’s active.

#3

Hi, @sdayman!

Thank you for your reply. The documentation doesn’t seem too old – https://developers.cloudflare.com/automatic-platform-optimization/reference/subdomain-subdirectories#run-apo-on-a-subdomain was updated 6 days ago and specifically states “You can only use a Global key for the subdomain”. And I won’t sleep well knowing that the webmaster of this website is in control of all our DNS zones.

As for plugin-less APO, see here – Intend to deprecate: running APO without Cloudflare for WordPress plugin

#4

Oh…darn. I’m not sure what the reasoning is for that.

One option would be to try using WP Cloudflare Super Page Cache. It says it works with a token.

That was quite a while ago. I wonder if they’ve made any progress on that. I wonder how it purges cache without having the plugin.

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#5

@emeliyanov I tested it now, API token for WordPress works just fine to setup APO on a subdomain. We will update the documentation for that.

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