Here I am again pestering you guys. Our users are formed by a good amount of tech-savvy people and raised this issue that I’ve had spotted some time ago but decided to postpone as I am also busy with non-forum-admin stuff :roll_eyes: Anyway, today is a day in which I have people packing our house …

In case it helps, and hoping this isn’t unwelcome, here’s a snapshot of that thread, which has 185 posts: [image]

Thanks @Ed_S , as long as the hostname is not in clear it’s all good, I simply don’t want bots/wannabe-hackers to go around having it too easy and having some “fun” with a small community forum. I am already dedicating way too much time compared to what I expected, for it :laughing:

It seems like you are using Cloudflare’s HTTP reverse proxy feature but don’t have nginx configured to use real IPs that Cloudflare’s servers send for requests, that might cause issues (if every request seems to come from the same source, all of your users will be affected by ratelimits, even if onl…

Thanks for the hint, do you have any topic/guide I could read about how to fix this? The reverse proxy has been a request from who actually own the VPS as to not expose the actual IP.

[image] Full site CDN acceleration for Discourse You need to set up X-Forwarded-For trust. For Cloudflare, add cloudflare.template.yml to your app.yml file. Does adding that template make it work correctly?

Rebuilding now. Will let it run overnight and check back tomorrow/monday (still in the middle of the house move unboxing :weary:) Edit: Quick checking immediately after the rebuild seems to have solved the issue :+1: I’ll update in a couple days anyway!

“A couple of days later”: yep, enabling the additional template for Cloudflare solved the issue of those badge requests failing. Also resolved some other issues like the IP filter for admin/moderators showing everyone coming from the same IP. However, the monitoring I get from the prometheus scrap…

Large amount of errors on /user-badges.json

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Does adding that template make it work correctly?

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