Cloudflare

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.

This document describes how to migrate a website to the Cloudflare infrastructure and configuration using the Turnkey service option. For information on other Cloudflare service options, see Choosing a U-M Cloudflare Service Offering.

A toolbar or other content is missing after I log in to my website Can Cloudflare be used for web applications? Drupal sites behind Cloudflare get caught in a redirect loop when the URL query string contains a utm parameter   Question: A toolbar or other content that only logged-in users can see isn't showing up when I log into my website.

This document provides instructions on how to migrate a website behind Cloudflare protection. Once these steps are done, your website will be protected behind Cloudflare but additional steps, below, are needed to complete the setup process.

Overview The University of Michigan adds four Cloudflare Cache Rules to each Cloudflare zone. These rules are intended to increase reliability of U-M websites and decrease costs for U-M units on hosting vendors’ platforms, by improving the default cache behavior in Cloudflare. The four Cache Rules are:

Websites that require authentication Websites that require authentication for all content (no publicly accessible content) are still generally put behind Cloudflare to protect them from DDoS attacks against the web server(s) that the site runs on. Follow the instructions for migrating the website behind Cloudflare in that case.