Overview
Use this document to determine which U-M Cloudflare service best suits your needs.
Cloudflare
Cloudflare supports directives that you can embed in your web page HTML. These directives will allow you to change how Cloudflare modifies your web page content.
Cloudflare ended support for Drupal 7 in 2016 so there is not a Drupal 7 module available for Cloudflare integration. The university's instance of Cloudflare will respect all caching headers sent by the web server or CMS, and it will automatically not cache content or serve cached content if it sees that one of the standard PHP session cookies is set.
Turnkey Cloudflare
To get a Cloudflare API token to use with a Cloudflare Content Management System module/plugin, send an email to [email protected] with the following information:
URL of your website
Which Content Management System your website uses (for example, WordPress)
Which module or plugin your website will be using for Cloudflare integration
The ITS Web Hosting team will create the token for you and share it via Dropbox, usually within 1-2 business days.
A Cloudflare plugin for Drupal is necessary to allow Drupal to:
A Cloudflare plugin for WordPress is necessary to allow WordPress to:
Authorized people in university units with Self Service and Basic Cloudflare zones can manage those zones using the Cloudflare Dashboard at https://dash.cloudflare.com/
Cloudflare dashboard access is not available for university units with Turnkey Cloudflare websites. To request changes or reports, Turnkey Cloudflare customers should send a message to [email protected].
For an overview of how Cloudflare caches content, refer to Default Cache Behavior in the Cloudflare documentation. At other institutions, Cloudflare only caches static assets by default; it does not cache HTML (web pages).
The University of Michigan has configured most Cloudflare domains so that they do cache HTML (web pages) unless one or more of the following conditions are met:
Overview
This document explains how university units that have Self Service and Basic U-M Cloudflare zones can control who has the ability to access those zones’ configuration, reports, and API tokens in the Cloudflare dashboard at https://dash.cloudflare.com/
Some U-M units may opt for the "Self Service" or "Basic" customer experience and choose to migrate their site(s) behind Cloudflare and manage the site(s) in Cloudflare themselves rather than having ITS Web Hosting manage the site(s) on your behalf. Self Service provides direct access to the Cloudflare dashboard for a college/school/unit’s domain. For information on other Cloudflare service options, see Choosing a U-M Cloudflare Service Offering.