I need to integrate Cloudflare with my droplets through the Managed Load Balancer provided by DigitalOcean.
This is my current configuration:
Cloudflare
- WAF Configured
- Proxy Navigation Enabled (To support WAF)
- Use of SSL provided by Cloudflare
- IPv6 Enabled
DigitalOcean
- Two Droplets with Apache
- HTTP2 Enabled
- IPv6 Enabled
- SSL/HTTPS configured with my own security certificate from my domain
- Cloud Firewall rules that only allow access on port 80 and 443 by the DO balancer
How should I configure the DigitalOcean load balancer to support this integration, and keep the original IP of the client coming from Cloudflare?
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Hi there,
The setup looks very good. The DigitalOcean Load Balancers will set some HTTP headers that pass the source IP through to your backend servers, like Cloudflare does with X-Forwarded-For, and CF-Connecting-IP headers.
From the Protocol Support section of the docs:
The load balancer sets the
X-Forwarded-For,X-Forwarded-Proto, andX-Forwarded-Portheaders to give the backend servers information about the original request.
Hope that this helps! Regards, Bobby
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