After selecting a protected IP address, you will receive instructions with the required settings and the commands to apply them.
With these instructions, you will need to do the following:
- Add our serving networks to your firewall exceptions;
- Configure detection of the real IP addresses of site visitors;
- Block direct connections to your server from external sources.
According to the instructions, you will:
- Change your domain’s A record in DNS to the protected IP address;
- Add our outgoing addresses to your trusted list, removing any restrictions;
- Block access to ports 80 and 443 for all networks except local connections and those from our serving networks;
- Restart your web server;
- Configure Nginx by updating the configuration file;
- Configure Apache by updating the configuration file.
For IIS, follow the steps provided in the instructions.
If you have any questions during setup, please contact support.
