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[TheLastSuperman]

Originally Posted by Octavius.

I can't even get this working right...

KevinL is right, see below. furthermore if your hosted w/ URLJet your not required to edit the files. mod_cloudflare handles that for you since they use litespeed and have it passing the originating ip . Not to mention some things like IP's from your who's online and other will simply disappear if you make those edits :erm:.

So as Kevin said, enable it via cPanel and let it fly!

Originally Posted by KevinL

There really should be no real setup once you click that button in cpanel.

What are some issues you are having?

[8thos]

Originally Posted by KevinL

There really should be no real setup once you click that button in cpanel.

What are some issues you are having?

Originally Posted by TheLastSuperman

KevinL is right, see below. furthermore if your hosted w/ URLJet your not required to edit the files. mod_cloudflare handles that for you since they use litespeed and have it passing the originating ip . Not to mention some things like IP's from your who's online and other will simply disappear if you make those edits :erm:.

So as Kevin said, enable it via cPanel and let it fly!

My host says it reroutes traffic through www.the8thlegion.com but my most of my urls are http://the8thlegion.com

Tried to fix it last night and it screwed up my site so I'm asking my host to look into it.

[MrHorror]

I've said it once and I'll say it again, the vbulletin question and answer option kills 99.5% of spammers. This is because most spammers are bots. Not real people. So every now and then, you might get the occasional spammer. But atleast they'll be human.

[KevinL]

Originally Posted by Octavius.

My host says it reroutes traffic through www.the8thlegion.com but my most of my urls are http://the8thlegion.com

Tried to fix it last night and it screwed up my site so I'm asking my host to look into it.

Yep. You would have to add a 301 redirect from non-www --> www

You can put this in your htaccess:

RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} ^the8thlegion.com$ [NC]
RewriteCond %{SERVER_PORT} ^80$
RewriteRule ^(.*)$ http://www.the8thlegion.com/$1 [R=301,L]

That should route it correctly for you.

[8thos]

Originally Posted by MrHorror

I've said it once and I'll say it again, the vbulletin question and answer option kills 99.5% of spammers. This is because most spammers are bots. Not real people. So every now and then, you might get the occasional spammer. But atleast they'll be human.

I've been saying that too. I have Q&A set up on my site. No spam problems really. I get human spammers but they are rare.

Cloud Flare isn't awesome to me because of spam-prevention though. It's awesome because it's a Content Delivery Network. My host says it has more reach than maxCDN which is what vbSEO uses. I need CloudFlare because for one, I don't live near my server and two, my site won't even load on my moderator's cell phone because she lives overseas. Having a CDN means having a faster site and a better search ranking. My site's ranking went down when my site slowed down. I need this and some other optimization besides mods like dboptimize lite to increase the speed of my site.

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Originally Posted by KevinL

Yep. You would have to add a 301 redirect from non-www --> www

You can put this in your htaccess:

RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} ^the8thlegion.com$ [NC]
RewriteCond %{SERVER_PORT} ^80$
RewriteRule ^(.*)$ http://www.the8thlegion.com/$1 [R=301,L]

That should route it correctly for you.

They fixed it awhile ago thank you! I see your host has softalicious. I just now discovered that on my server the other day. I'm mad no one told me. Do you ever get requests from your customers about integration with the free scripts within softalicious? Integration as in, dual-login. Single-sign on kinda deal.

Originally Posted by Sage Knight

Not a good option if most of your members are from Asia.

I actually work for CloudFlare and thought I would jump in. We have a number of datacenters in Asia & things should be fine for most site visitors. Are you having issues with the challenge page/captcha?

[BirdOPrey5]

Originally Posted by damoncloudflare

I actually work for CloudFlare and thought I would jump in. We have a number of datacenters in Asia & things should be fine for most site visitors. Are you having issues with the challenge page/captcha?

Cloudflare has a challenge?

[Xencored]

Originally Posted by BirdOPrey5

Cloudflare has a challenge?

Customize Challenge Page

Customize the challenge page. You can customize colors, copy and other elements of the page. Changes may take up to 30 minutes to propagate across the entire CloudFlare system.

[8thos]

Rocket Loader screwed up my site. I know it's in Beta. Everything else seems to be okay so far.

[8thos]

Purging cache and going into development mode doesn't work no matter what order I do it in. I need to see changes right away. I even wait minutes, in some cases hours and I still do not see immediate change. It also happens after I deactivate the service. This bug almost makes me want to stop this service.