Adding CloudFlare to Web V8
This is a step by step guide on how to setup CloudFlare on your Web V8 hosted website.
This tutorial is suitable if you…
- Have a CloudFlare account and need to add your website to it
- Want to control your DNS from your Web V8 hosting panel
- Are a reseller looking to control multiple Cloudflare accounts
- Are hosting your website on Web V8
- Purchased your domain on Web V8
Important Links
Click on the images to follow the steps
Step 1 – Add Domain to Cloudflare
If you do not have an account already, just hit register and follow the same steps.
![CloudFlare Dashboard](https://webv8.net/wp-content/uploads/2024/07/cloudflare-dash-300x130.jpg)
![CloudFlare Domain](https://webv8.net/wp-content/uploads/2024/07/cf-enter-domain-300x180.jpg)
![Free Plan Cloudflare](https://webv8.net/wp-content/uploads/2024/07/cf-click-free-300x274.jpg)
![DNS records](https://webv8.net/wp-content/uploads/2024/07/cf-start-quick-scan-300x113.jpg)
![DNS records](https://webv8.net/wp-content/uploads/2024/07/cf-just-continue-300x223.jpg)
![Your Nameservers](https://webv8.net/wp-content/uploads/2024/07/cf-my-nameservers024-300x251.jpg)
Step 2 – Update Your Nameservers
Login to your client portal here
Once you have logged into your Web V8 Client Portal follow these steps:
![Click Your Domain](https://webv8.net/wp-content/uploads/2024/07/webv8-click-domain-300x266.jpg)
![Click on NAMESERVERS](https://webv8.net/wp-content/uploads/2024/07/webv8-click-nameservers-300x156.jpg)
![Copy & Paste CloudFlare Nameservers](https://webv8.net/wp-content/uploads/2024/07/webv8-copypaste-300x158.jpg)
Are you using a different domain name registrar?
Step 4 – Get your API key
Installing your API key into Web V8
![Click Get API Token](https://webv8.net/wp-content/uploads/2024/07/cf-click-get-api-token-300x198.jpg)
![Create Token](https://webv8.net/wp-content/uploads/2024/07/cf-create-token-300x64.jpg)
![Click the first one](https://webv8.net/wp-content/uploads/2024/07/cf-edit-zone-template-300x167.jpg)
![Enable All Zones](https://webv8.net/wp-content/uploads/2024/07/cf-allzones-300x240.jpg)
![Copy API Token](https://webv8.net/wp-content/uploads/2024/07/cf-copypaste-api-token-300x128.jpg)
![Web V8](https://webv8.net/wp-content/uploads/2024/07/click-on-integrations-s-300x285.jpg)
![Click on CloudFlare](https://webv8.net/wp-content/uploads/2024/07/click-on-cloudflare-300x285.jpg)
![Click Add](https://webv8.net/wp-content/uploads/2024/07/click-add-on-cf-300x193.jpg)
![Paste your API key here](https://webv8.net/wp-content/uploads/2024/07/copy-paste-cloudflare-api-300x130.jpg)
![Should look like this now](https://webv8.net/wp-content/uploads/2024/07/if-added-correctly-300x95.jpg)
Step 5 – Wait for Activation
It usually takes upto 30 mins (but can take up to 48 hours)
![CloudFlare ACtive](https://webv8.net/wp-content/uploads/2024/07/cloudflare-plan-active-now.jpg)
Step 6 – Enabling CloudFlare
Web V8 hosting actually managed and controls your CloudFlare account for you. This means you should not make any DNS changes on your CloudFlare account (for this particular website) as any DNS records on Web V8 will overwrite whatever you have in CloudFlare beforehand.
![](https://webv8.net/wp-content/uploads/2024/07/Click-on-website-ac-300x147.jpg)
![](https://webv8.net/wp-content/uploads/2024/07/Click-on-domains-300x150.jpg)
![](https://webv8.net/wp-content/uploads/2024/07/click-on-domain-website-3-300x110.jpg)
![Select API Token](https://webv8.net/wp-content/uploads/2024/07/select-api-key-on-website-300x130.jpg)
Step 7 – Generating CloudFlare SSL
Let’s generate a CloudFlare SSL Certificate on the CloudFlare Dashboard.
![](https://webv8.net/wp-content/uploads/2024/07/cf-generate-origin-ssl-300x138.jpg)
![](https://webv8.net/wp-content/uploads/2024/07/cf-generate-15yo-ssl-300x192.jpg)
![](https://webv8.net/wp-content/uploads/2024/07/cf-copy-the-whole-ssl-300x281.jpg)
Step 7 – Installing SSL
Now we need to install the CloudFlare SSL into our Web V8 Dashboard
![Advanced > Security](https://webv8.net/wp-content/uploads/2024/07/advanced-security-ssl-300x165.jpg)
![Install Custom SSL](https://webv8.net/wp-content/uploads/2024/07/install-custom-ssl-300x104.jpg)
![Paste CloudFlare CRT & Key here](https://webv8.net/wp-content/uploads/2024/07/copy-paste-keys-here-300x226.jpg)
Step 9 – Enabling it all
We’re going to enable STRICT SSL settings on CloudFlare and Enable Proxies on our website DNS records here.
DO NOT ENABLE PROXY ON ANYTHING THAT SAYS “MAIL”
![SSL Settings - Strict](https://webv8.net/wp-content/uploads/2024/07/cf-click-ssl-LEVEL-strict-300x183.jpg)
![Set Proxy on all DNS zones (except Mail)](https://webv8.net/wp-content/uploads/2024/07/list-of-dns-records-300x141.jpg)