How to Secure your Login Page using CloudFlare

Manuel campos

There are many ways to protect your login page and you don’t have to spend a dollar buying expensive security plugin.

CloudFlare is my go-to solution when I want to block everyone out except myself from my login page.

Follow these steps to protect your login page the same way that I do

Steps to Secure your Login Page

Firstly, you have to go to your domain on CloudFlare since Firewall rules are created on a site by site basis

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Secondly go to your DNS Records

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Thirdly Make sure your site traffic is being proxied by CloudFlare.

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Fourth go to your web application firewall (WAF)

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Then click the “create firewall rule” button

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After that name your firewall whatever you want and choose these values for field and operator from the dropdown menu

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Once you got that ready, you gotta choose what to do with visitors who want to visit those pages. I suggest blocking everyone.

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Then Click “the deploy button” and your login page security concerns will be gone

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Now go to the “tools tab” inside the Web Application Firewall

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There you have to whitelist the IP that you don’t want to block including your home and Office IP and Click the “add button”

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Finally come back later and go to your web application firewall and then overview to check your firewall performance

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Click any of the results and check details about the visitors being blocked

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Open any of the log results and confirm that the Firewall is blocking only threats

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