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Can I use domain on Cloudflare with digital ocean?

Posted March 17, 2017 7.7k views
Ubuntu WordPress DNS

I just created a droplet and migrated the wordpress files from masterblogster.com. This domain is currently in cloudflare. Is it possible to keep the domain in cloudflare and route it to Digital Ocean? I would like to continue using Cloudflare for DDOS protection.
Is there a way around?

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jtittle1 March 17, 2017

@srjcooldude

Of course, all you’d need to do is point your domain to the Public IPv4 IP of your Droplet using either two A entries or a single A and a CNAME, depending on how you want to set it up.

Using Only A Entries

A          @          DROPLET_IP
A          www        DROPLET_IP

Using A and CNAME Entries

A          @          DROPLET_IP
CNAME      www        domain.com

Where DROPLET_IP is the Droplet’s Public IPv4 IP and domain.com is your domain.

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hansen March 17, 2017

Yes, you can. Just edit your DNS records in CloudFlare and point them to your DigitalOcean droplet IP.
Dangit, you’re too fast @jtittle ! You must have bought new shoes :-)

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RightSide January 25, 2018

After doing this, would it then be configured to accept wordpress url configuration for domain.com in replace of root for wordpress url and site url?

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