Hi, I see that when the users see logged in devices, Discourse shows the edge CloudFlare edge server location. I have made so that the whole forum is behind CloudFlare, is there an option to use the CloudFlare geo header, after all the server will have it received.

[image] kaziqta: Just want to know if rebuild deletes the local translations If you did them in the UX through the /admin/customize/text interface, you’re safe.

[image] kaziqta: I have made so that the whole forum is behind CloudFlare, is there an option to use the CloudFlare geo header, after all the server will have it received. Yes, there’s a template you can add to your app.yml which will pass the client IP that Cloudflare forwards into Discourse…

I have translated a lot of strings, btw, will that be lost on rebuild?

Are you contributing to Discourse on Transifex?

There is one, and only one, legit case for running everything through CloudFlare – when your site is at high risk of DDoS and you can’t risk exposing the source IP of your site. There are some other topics here on that, the danger is that the IP can be revealed through some obscure output somewhere …

For people who can’t afford a separate CDN it’s also not a bad way to offload uploads and avatars, but yes otherwise the complexity and disadvantages outweigh any benefits.

Directly in Discourse, Bulgarian translations are just… I already translated “disqus” :smiley: but I just want to know if I rebuild if the internal translations are lost RE: did it :slight_smile: I ran the script that is in the templates/cloudflare.template.yml Added the output to my nginx conf…

Heads up Stefan: if you ran the script itself it’ll be overwritten the next time your update Discourse. Be sure to include the template in your app.yml to make sure it is persistent. If you look near the top of your existing app.yml in /var/discourse/containers/app.yml you’ll see a number of templa…

Sure, added already. Just want to know if rebuild deletes the local translations

Perfect, thank you for the information

CloudFlare and location for the users

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justin (Justin DiRose) July 24, 2019, 3:45pm 2

Welcome @kaziqta! Unfortunately we don’t recommend running all your traffic through CloudFlare, as it can cause issues with Discourse sites not working properly.

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