I have a confession: sometimes I write LowEndBox tutorials so I can find them when I google the question in the future.

Case in point: whitelisting an IP in Cloudflare’s WAF.

I don’t do this regularly because my home IP rarely changes.  For travel, one option is to setup a VPN so you’re always coming from the same IP.  That’s not a perfect solution because if you setup a VPN in Chicago and you’re now in Florida, the latency is less than pleasant.  So I guess you’d need a set of VPNs in different geographies.  Or you can just go into Cloudflare’s web site and change the whitelisted IPs if you’re going to be in one spot for a while.

What happens is that about every few months I need to do this and it takes me 5-10 minutes of clicking around in the CF interface to remember how to do this operation.  After today, I’ll no longer have this problem.

Start by logging into Cloudflare and browsing to the web site in question.  Then find the Security tab on the left. Then expand that group and click WAF.

Now in the main pane, click on Tools.

Enter your IP address.  Important: you need to enter the IP, and then click to accept in the dropdown right below that.

Change “Block” to “Allow”.  Add anything you want in Notes:

Now you should see your new rule in the WAF rule list:

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Dread Lord of LowEnd Content at LowEndBox

I'm raindog308, techno polymath and long-time LowEndTalk community Administrator. My technical interests include all things Unix, perl, python, golang, shell scripting, vintage operating systems such as MVS, and relational database systems such as Oracle, PostgreSQL, and MySQL.

I also enjoy using LEBs! I have an empire of little guys for VPNs, larger guys for apps, and big guys for databases and storage. When I'm not in front a screen I'm into German Shepherd dogs, quality knives, target shooting, theology, tabletop roleplaying games, and forest hiking.

I enjoy writing technical articles here on LowEndBox to help people get more out of their systems. You can find me on LowEndTalk @raindog308

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