Setup domain name with CloudFlare (Scrile Connect)

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Last updated: Feb 15, 2024 by Alexandra Buzoverova
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This method of domain name setup is recommended

Benefits of CloudFlare service

 

  1. No restrictions for your website links format:

    1. https://yourdomain.com (without www) links work with no restrictions (most registrars does not support this)

    2. http://yourdomain.com/some-profile (without www) links work with no restrictions (most registrars does not support this)

  2. Website protection from DDoS attacks

  3. Cached pages and content allowing faster load of pages.

How to setup

  1. Signup or login into your CloudFlare account:
    https://www.cloudflare.com

  2. Click on Add a site

  3. Enter your domain name that you want to use for your website and click Add a site button to continue:

  4. On the next step scroll down and choose free subscription - it is enough for the beginning

  5. Cloudflare will scan existing DNS records, once completed make sure to remove record with your main domain in Name column and A in Type column:

  6. Add new record with CNAME in type, @ in name and cloud.connect.scrile.com in Target. Make sure to keep proxy status turned on.

  7. Add new record with CNAME in type, www in name and @ in Target. Make sure to keep proxy status turned on.

  8. Enable Full SSL/TLS encryption mode in the Overview section.

  9. Disable Use HTTPS in the Edge Certificates. This is critical in the process of changing the domain. After the domain changes, you can turn it back on, or you can leave it off. The redirect will still occur, just not through CloudFlare, but through our server.

  10. Once completed you have to replace NS records at your domain name registrar (ex. GoDaddy / Google Domains / etc), follow the instructions on cloudflare page and assign new nameservers.

    Here is an example how it is done on GoDaddy (for other registrars follow this procedure may differ):

    1. Do do My Products page: https://account.godaddy.com/products?go_redirect=disabled

    2. Choose your domain name and go to DNS settings page.

    3. Scroll down to Nameservers section and click Change

    4. Click on Enter my own nameservers

    5. Put nameservers suggested by cloudflare and click save, confirming risk operation.

  11. On cloudflare click Done, check nameservers. Wait up to 24 hour for new settings propagated. Once everything is done, you will get confirmation on cloudflare domain overview page.

  12. Once everything is done, you will get confirmation on cloudflare domain overview page.

  13. Go to Rules / Page Rules settings on cloudflare and add following rule:

    • Redirect every request to www subdomain:

How to ensure email addresses are visible and usable on your website

Cloudflare automatically offers email obfuscation to protect email addresses from bots and spammers. This means visitors see scrambled code like [email protected] instead of the full address:

This issue can be resolved by following these instructions:

Email Address Obfuscation | Cloudflare Web Application Firewall (WAF) docs

For further control, consider adjusting the Configuration rules as shown in the screenshots:

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