All About Whitelisting IP addresses in Cloudflare

Whitelisting IP addresses in Cloudflare is an easy affair with this quick guide by our experts. 

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All About Whitelisting IP addresses in Cloudflare

Cloudflare offers us the option of preventing malicious IP addresses from getting access to our website by granting access only to trusted IP addresses. In fact, this process is known as whitelisting. Furthermore, it offers an additional layer of protection to our website.

We can whitelist IP addresses with these steps:

1. First, open the /home/username/public_html/.htaccess file via the cPanel File Manager or SSH command prompt. In case, the file does not exist, we have to create it.
2. Next, copy the text below and paste it into the file from the previous step:

   order deny,allow
   deny from all
3. Then head to this link and copy-paste the list of IP addresses to the .htaccess file right after the deny from all line. Remember to ensure the IP addresses are on separate lines.
4. Next, add the text seen below to the start of each line with an IP address:

    allow from
5. Furthermore, we can add additional IP addresses to the whitelist by using the allow from IP_address format.
6. Finally, we will have a .htaccess file that looks similar to the one below:

   order deny,allow
   deny from all
   allow from 103.21.152.0/12
   [Additional Cloudflare IP addresses to allow]
   [Any other IP addresses you want to allow]

How to Whitelisting IP addresses from Cloudflare account

1. First, log in to the Cloudflare account.
2. Then, choose the Firewall icon and click the Tools tab.
3. Next, we have to list out the IP addresses to be whitelisted below the IP Access Rules with these steps:
   • First, enter the IP address
   • Then, select Whitelist
   • Next, select the website to which we want to apply these whitelisting rules to
4. After that, click Add.

According to our Support Techs, we have to repeat the above steps for each IP address we wish to whitelist.

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Conclusion

To conclude, our skilled Support Engineers at Bobcares demonstrated how to whitelist IP addresses in Cloudflare.