Tag: cloudflare

Configuring WP fail2ban Behind Cloudflare

Aug 17, 2021

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Ethan Clevenger

in Development, Tips & Tutorials

If your WordPress website is proxied behind Cloudflare, the IP address reported to your server isn’t the actual IP address of the original request. It’s a Cloudflare IP. Most of the time, this doesn’t matter, but if you’re using WP fail2ban, this causes issues. The Problem By default, fail2ban in combination with WP fail2ban works…