There are many advantages of using Cloudflare, mainly to increase website performance (CDN) and security.
However, when using Cloudflare, all
hits to your website will come from Cloudflare IP
addresses. In order to obtain visitors’ actual IP address, you must install mod_cloudflare.
Installing mod_cloudflare on a cPanel server is very easy. Just follow 6 steps as below. Please be reminded that this is only applicable if you are using
Apache webserver.
1. Connect to your server through SSH and log in as root.
2. Change directory to /usr/local/src
3. Obtain mod_cloudflare
source code
4. Build and install mod_cloudflare by using Apache Extension Tool
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apxs -a -i -c mod_cloudflare.c
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5. Restart the Apache Server daemon
6. Update the Apache configuration data
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/usr/local/cpanel/bin/apache_conf_distiller --update
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From now on, Apache will log the visitors’ actual IP address instead of the Cloudflare IP addresses.
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