Cloudflare Setup Guide

Step by step, how to put your Zen Cart store behind Cloudflare without breaking checkout: the shopper's real IP address on every order, caching that's safe for a store, and the rules that stop bots, scanners and card testers, on Cloudflare's Free or Pro plan.

What's Inside:

• What you need before you start, and which Cloudflare plan suits a store
• Moving your DNS without losing your email
• SSL settings, and the Zen Cart settings that go with them
• Getting the shopper's real IP address into Zen Cart, and closing the hole that lets anyone fake it
• Caching that speeds up your store without caching carts or paid downloads
• Custom rules and rate limits against bots, scanners and card testing
• Protecting your admin and keeping payment callbacks working
• Testing everything, and what to do when you're under attack

Kept Current: providers change their dashboards and requirements from time to time. We check every guide regularly and update it when something changes, and the date at the top of the guide shows when we last checked. Updates are free, for good.

How You Read It: it's an online guide on this site, tied to your account. After checkout we email you the link; sign in with the account you ordered with, and you'll also find it in the Documentation box whenever you're signed in.

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