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Some issues with Bluehost and CloudFlare integration

Updated on by App   18

Cloudflare and Bluehost Setup Issue

After detailed discussion with Bluehost Support team, it seems I can’t enable Cloud-flare from Bluehost admin panel. Before I’ll say something let me provide some information on Cloudflare and it’s partnership with Bluehost.

CloudFlare:

CloudFlare routes your site’s traffic through an intelligent global network of advanced servers. When activated, CloudFlare automatically optimizes the delivery of your website’s pages so visitors experience the fastest load times possible.

While doing so, it also blocks threats and limits abusive bots and crawlers from eating up your bandwidth and server resources. This helps CloudFlare-powered websites experience not only a significant boost in performance, but a dramatic decrease in spam and other attacks as well.

Bluehost has built CloudFlare controls directly into cPanel. It literally takes 2 clicks to enable the service on any of domains or subdomains. There are no hardware, software or code changes for to worry about. They will even take care of the DNS changes and setup CloudFlare.com account automatically.

Here is my scenario:

When I first enabled CloudFlare via admin panel suddenly my site crunchify.com became unavailable. Then I tried accessing www.crunchify.com and it worked. I immediately found that this is definitely something related to DNS A record entries and this is what I found in my CPanel.
After that I called Bluehost Technical Support team and after 5-10 min talk they changed my DB entries for “WordPress Address URL” and “Site Address URL” without my notice to “www.crunchify.com” from “crunchify.com”.
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www. – Which I didn’t want my blog URL. So after my request they reverted back this changes. After 4-5 hrs I called them again to fix this and they finally informed me about this as a limitation.

CloudFlare or Bluehost team, is this something can you please fix?

I love both of your services and want this integration to work seamlessly. Any suggestion would be greatly appreciated.
Does anyone else have the same issue? Reply to me in comment section.

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  18 Comments...

  1. kuna behera says

    Without plugin you can check why ur site not workin ssl on this website – https:// whynopadlock.com/ after check that u found css family error in ur wp theme Insecure URL: http:// fonts.googleapis.com/css?family=Open+Sans:300,400,400italic,700
    Found in: https:// shareimage.in/wp-content/themes/yourtheme/style.css?ver=4.8.1
    Insecure URL: http:// fonts.googleapis.com/css?family=Open+Sans:800

    After that go to your theme editor and click on stylesheet(style.css) find the Insecure URL url and replace http to https after that your website worked.

    Reply

  2. Alberto says

    You need the www if you activate Cloudflare from your hosting account, if you prefer not to use www, then you need to add your domain directly to Cloudflare.
    https: //support.cloudflare. com/hc/en-us/articles/200169886-Can-I-use-a-naked-domain-no-www-with-CloudFlare-

    Reply

  3. T.C.A. says

    I am having same issue. Though I run sansarlochan and testcurrentaffairs….both are showing inactive there. Do not why. When I ask bluehost, they say contact cloudflare, not me.

    Reply

  4. Vibe‎.co.ke says

    If your wedbsite is loading as http://www.iwriteessays.com/ and you want it to load as http://iwriteessays.com/ , all you need to do is add a 301 redirect to the non-www url using the code below which should be inserted into your .htaccess file:

    RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} ^www.iwriteessays.com [NC]
RewriteRule ^(.*)$ http://iwriteessays.com/$1 [L,R=301]

    Please change the domain above to your own.

    This is what bluehost meant when they said :

    @Crunchify If you are okay using the www, you can make a redirect from the non-www version to
    add www to make sure that nobody gets lost.

    They were refering to a 301 redirect from www to non www 🙂

    Reply

  5. sarkar1990 says

    Hey, how did you get this to work properly? As I can see now you have a non www domain and also the images are being served from the cloudflare. I am trying to do this with my blog too, but am failing miserably.

    Reply

    • App Shah says

      Hi Sarkar – I’m now moved to Squidix web hosting and MaxCDN. So far it’s working very well. But if I recall correctly – above Bluehost and Cloudflare integration never worked for me before.

      Reply

    • Vibe‎.co.ke says

      Its easy to solve this issue using the code below which should be inserted into your .htaccess file:

      RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} ^www.iwriteessays.com [NC]
      RewriteRule ^(.*)$ http://iwriteessays. com/$1 [L,R=301]

      Please change the domain above to your own.

      Reply

        • Vibe‎.co.ke says

          I understand your point. But, some people actually prefer to use the www version of their domain.if you dont prefer that version, you should do a 301 redirect as above

          Reply

  6. Heather Hastie says

    I don’t know all the technical details, but my website is powered by bluehost and I can’t access any website powered by cloudfare.

    Reply

    • App Shah says

      Hi Heather – yeah. They might still have the same issue. It’s been a long time i’ve reported this issue to Bluehost.

      Reply

  7. Rickey says

    Interesting and correct observation. After reading this I also tried and it failed for me. Cloudflare should have given this customization option to Bluehost.

    Reply

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