Discourse und Cloudflare

[bartv (Bart)]

We use Cloudflare with Discourse, but there are some things to watch out for. Here’s our setup:

S3 image bandwidth costs are getting annoying

I’m using Cloudflare on my Discourse site and it works fine. You basically route all your traffic through Cloudflare and tell it what to process or cache and that’s it. There are a few things to keep in mind though: Configure Cloudflare to NOT cache anything (set up exceptions using page rules, see below). Don’t let Cloudflare touch your Javascript - specifically, turn off Rocket Loader. I’m not sure about Brotli compression yet, I disabled it. Set up page rules to cache the avatar and upload …