We use cloudflare for managing the DNS and we can`t turn on the orange cloud to proxy the forum because this will break it.
is there any way ti turn around this and proxy thy IP to hide the origin ?
AI-generated summary
In the discussion “Hide Origin IP in Discourse,” Jay91 is trying to configure Cloudflare to hide the origin IP of their forum without breaking it. Stephen suggests adding a rule to “disable performance,” which would degrade performance and prevent Let’s Encrypt from issuing certificates.
Jay91 asks for clarification on the performance impact, and Stephen explains that adding Cloudflare between the client and server introduces extra network hops, slowing down responses.
After adding the suggested rule, Jay91 experiences issues, but Stephen attributes this to an incorrect SSL mode configuration on Cloudflare, recommending a switch from Flexible to Strict.
A rule to “disable performance” will turn off the damaging features.
It will degrade performance though and Let’s Encrpyt cannot issue certificates with it enabled.
Let me as a question please, so every time the certificate needs to be renewed i have to drop the forum for cloudflare ?
Do you mean will not provide the extra performance or will make the site slower than the current status ? Please clarify.
If you’re sandwiching Cloudflare between client and server you are adding extra network hops for every update. Cloudflare can’t cache application server responses, so the extra network time slows responses down.
That’s not related to the rule, your SSL mode on Cloudflare isn’t configured correctly. Do you have it set to SSL(Flexible)? It should be configured as strict.