# Cloudflare preventing plugin connection
**URL:** https://meta.discourse.org/t/cloudflare-preventing-plugin-connection/125306
**Category:** WordPress
**Created:** [August 9, 2019, 8:05am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/cloudflare-preventing-plugin-connection/125306 "2019-08-09T08:05:45Z")
**Posts on this page:** 10
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### Author:  [@undeadcorvid](https://meta.discourse.org/u/undeadcorvid)
#### Post date: [August 9, 2019, 8:05am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/cloudflare-preventing-plugin-connection/125306/1 "2019-08-09T08:05:46Z")
Hi there!
I’ve been struggling to get the plugin to connect to my Discourse - though all the API information was correct, the plugin couldn’t find my forum. On a wild guess I removed my reverse proxy through Cloudflare, and now it’s working perfectly. Is there a certain Cloudflare setting that interferes with how this plugin works? I’m completely stumped. Not using Cloudflare isn’t an option for me.
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### Author:  [@pfaffman](https://meta.discourse.org/u/pfaffman)
#### Post date: [August 9, 2019, 12:37pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/cloudflare-preventing-plugin-connection/125306/2 "2019-08-09T12:37:08Z")
Turn off the rocket loader.
There are dozens of topics about problems with cloudflare that you can read.
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### Author:  [@michaeld](https://meta.discourse.org/u/michaeld)
#### Post date: [August 9, 2019, 1:26pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/cloudflare-preventing-plugin-connection/125306/3 "2019-08-09T13:26:42Z")
Rocket loader modifies the Javascript while the plugin will connect to the API … so I doubt that this has anything to do with rocket loader?
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### Author:  [@pfaffman](https://meta.discourse.org/u/pfaffman)
#### Post date: [August 9, 2019, 2:00pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/cloudflare-preventing-plugin-connection/125306/4 "2019-08-09T14:00:47Z")
I defer to @michaeld pretty much always. This time I even understand what he’s saying.
It’s not the Rocket Loader, as it just breaks Javascript. It’s something else.
> [@undeadcorvid](#):
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> Is there a certain Cloudflare setting that interferes with how this plugin works?
It looks like it. There are dozens of topics where people describe problems and a very few where people say that it’s “easy.”
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### Author:  [@undeadcorvid](https://meta.discourse.org/u/undeadcorvid)
#### Post date: [August 9, 2019, 7:55pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/cloudflare-preventing-plugin-connection/125306/5 "2019-08-09T19:55:04Z")
Yeah, I have gone through a few posts I found on here on this same problem and none of them have so far fixed it - looked into TLS settings, ect. And Rocket Loader definitely isn’t the culprit, I haven’t ever had it on. Never felt the need to turn it on.
I’ll keep trying and will report back if I find the solution in my case. It’s a shame they don’t play nice together very easily.
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### Author:  [@Falco](https://meta.discourse.org/u/Falco)
#### Post date: [August 9, 2019, 7:57pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/cloudflare-preventing-plugin-connection/125306/6 "2019-08-09T19:57:51Z")
Make the little cloud next to the DNS entry gray instead of orange.
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### Author:  [@codinghorror](https://meta.discourse.org/u/codinghorror)
#### Post date: [August 10, 2019, 4:14am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/cloudflare-preventing-plugin-connection/125306/7 "2019-08-10T04:14:48Z")
Unless you have reason to believe your site will be the victim of a massive DDoS, you don’t need Cloudflare.
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### Author:  [@undeadcorvid](https://meta.discourse.org/u/undeadcorvid)
#### Post date: [August 10, 2019, 6:53am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/cloudflare-preventing-plugin-connection/125306/8 "2019-08-10T06:53:50Z")
I run a political forum, unfortunately. Or, more accurately, some of the work I do invites the nastier side of the Internet. It’s common for people who do what I do to get DDoS’d, doxxed, ect. It’s why I like the way Discourse works and I’m not taking chances on security.
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### Author:  [@codinghorror](https://meta.discourse.org/u/codinghorror)
#### Post date: [August 11, 2019, 10:53am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/cloudflare-preventing-plugin-connection/125306/9 "2019-08-11T10:53:53Z")
Be sure you enable the cloudflare template in `app.yml` if using it is a requirement.
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### Author:  [@Stephen](https://meta.discourse.org/u/Stephen)
#### Post date: [August 11, 2019, 1:16pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/cloudflare-preventing-plugin-connection/125306/10 "2019-08-11T13:16:56Z")
Bear in mind Cloudflare only protects one path to your server. If the origin IP is found you’re still wide open.