Simple Guide to Install Cloudflare in Cpanel Linux Server

Having cloudflare on your own server will improve the stability when running multiple sites within

For such reasons, you will have to learn to install cloudflare in cpanel of your linux server

These following instructions will guide you how to install properly cloudflare onto your linux server

Before going to further installation, make sure you have installed putty program on your computer

1. Open PuttY and login to SSH with it

2. Access cPanel with root via Putty by typing these commands

ssh root@SERVER IP ADDRESS or SERVER NAME

cd /usr/local/cpanel

3. Download cloudflare by typing this following command

curl -k -L https://github.com/cloudflare/CloudFlare-CPanel/tarball/master > cloudflare.tar.gz

4. Extract cloudflare to your server with this command

tar -zxvf cloudflare.tar.gz

Afterwards, you will find an extract Directory which includes UNIQUE ID.

You can see these following formats

cloudflare-CloudFlare-CPanel-d03f3b8

UNIQUE ID is d03f3b8

UNIQUE ID is not cloudflare-CloudFlare-CPanel-d03f3b8

5. Type these command to start installing cloudflare that you have just downloaded

cd cloudflare-CloudFlare-CPanel-UNIQUE ID/cloudflare/

./install_cf HOST_API_KEY mod_cf ‘YOUR_COMPANY_NAME’

For example this tutorial uses ebookwp as company name

So it will be

./install_cf 56yt8x9s987dfy4324bnv mod_cf “ebookwp”

Notes:

HOST_API_KEY = is API which is made by cloudflare

To get api key, you can contact cloudflare or sign up form on their site

6. Now, just wait a while as cloudflare installation is being processed

Once it is getting successfully installed, you will be noticed with this following notification

CloudFlare module installed successfully

7. After having such message, you have already had cloudflare on your server

In order to activate it, you can login to WHM cPanel >> Easy Apache >> Mod Cloudflare > give a check then build till it is done well

8. Then, you can delete remnant files of the installation by typing these following commands

cd ../ ../.

rm -rf cloudflare-CloudFlare-CPanel-UNIQUE ID*

To check cloudflare in your server, you can type these commands

cd /usr/local/cpanel

cat etc/cloudflare.json

You will see this following forms on the whm screen

root@server1 [/usr/local/cpanel]# cat etc/cloudflare.json

{

“host_key”:”32yt5a7b436tuy8974tre -”, (For security purposes, this will not be your host key.)

“host_formal_name”:”ebookwp”,

“host_name”:”api.cloudflare.com”,

“host_uri”:”/host-­gw.html”,

“user_name”:”www.cloudflare.com”,

“user_uri”:”/api_json.html”,

“host_port”:”443”,

“host_prefix”:”cloudflare-­resolve-­to”,

“cp_version”:”1.3.0”

Hopefully, this article will be useful to have cloudflare on your server, so you will be able to run all of your sites with ease and stable