CloudFlare Plugin install on cpanel

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CloudFlare is a performance and security service. With 14 points of presence around the world, a website on CloudFlare typically loads twice as fast, uses 65% less server resources, saves 60% of bandwidth and has an additional layer of security. Hosting Providers get reduced server load, bandwidth savings, mitigation of DDoS attacks and and IPv4/v6 gateway.

The CloudFlare cPanel plugin makes it easy to integrate into your hosting control panel. It takes less than 5 minutes to install on a test server and then the service is available to your end customers with two clicks.


To install CloudFlare plugin on cPanel server:


Step 1. Access cPanel for the server using root user

Step 2. cd /usr/local/cpanel;

Step 3. curl -k -L https://github.com/cloudflare/CloudFlare-CPanel/tarball/master > cloudflare.tar.gz

Step 4. tar -zxvf cloudflare.tar.gz;

This extracts a directory that includes a UNIQUE ID. For example, the directory will be in this format:
cloudflare-CloudFlare-CPanel-d03f3b8
The UNIQUE ID is only: d03f3b8
The UNIQUE ID is not cloudflare-CloudFlare-CPanel-d03f3b8

Step 5. cd cloudflare-CloudFlare-CPanel-UNIQUE ID/cloudflare/

Step 6. ./install_cf API HOST KEY mod_cf “YOUR COMPANY NAME”

example: ./install_cf 6293721b24030e092830b5318cc223fb mod_cf "admin-ahead";

Best SysAdmin practices:

Now that CloudFlare is installed, you can remove some of the unnecessary remnant files:

Step 7.

cd ../ ../
This takes you back two levels.

Step 8.

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

To check if it is installed:

cat /etc/cloudflare.json
or
cat /usr/local/cpanel/etc/cloudflare.json

You should see an output with the following:

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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”:”Awesome Hosting”,
 “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”
}
Uninstall:
/usr/local/cpanel/bin/unregister_cpanelplugin /usr/local/cpanel/3rdparty/cloudflare.cpanelplugin