Whitelisting IP Addresses in Cloudflare using IP Access Rules to avoid Cloudflare blocks WP-Firewall connection.

Whitelisting IP Addresses in Cloudflare using IP Access Rules to avoid Cloudflare blocks WP-Firewall connection.

Written by James Chan
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Following the instructions provided in the URL https://developers.cloudflare.com/waf/tools/ip-access-rules/create/, you can whitelist the IP addresses 51.81.107.180 and 135.148.103.139 in your Cloudflare dashboard to avoid Cloudflare blocks WP-Firewall connection.

Here's how:

  1. Log in to the Cloudflare dashboard using your account credentials.

  2. Select the account and domain where you want to whitelist the IP addresses.

  3. Navigate to Security > WAF > Tools.

  4. Under IP Access Rules, click on Create a rule.

  5. In the Value field, enter the IP address you want to whitelist. For example, enter 51.81.107.180 for the first IP address.

  6. Select the action as "allow".

  7. Choose the Zone where you want to apply the rule. You can select the current website only or all websites in the account.

  8. (Optional) Enter a note for the rule, such as "Whitelisted IP for specific access".

  9. Click Add to create the rule.

  10. Repeat steps 5-9 for the second IP address, 135.148.103.139.

Additional Notes:

By following these steps, you will have successfully whitelisted the two IP addresses in your Cloudflare dashboard, allowing them to avoid Cloudflare blocks WP-Firewall connection.

*Due to security reasons, please note that WP-FIrewall doesn't support Cloudflare as a proxy(Yellow Cloud icon).

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