After selecting a protected IP address, you will receive instructions describing the necessary settings and commands to execute them.
With these instructions, you will need to perform the following:
- Add our serving networks to the exceptions of your firewall;
- Configure the detection of the real IP address of site visitors;
- Block direct connections to your server from external sources.
According to the instructions, you will:
- Change the A-record of your domain in DNS to the protected IP address;
- Add our outgoing addresses to the trusted list, removing restrictions;
- Close access to ports 80 and 443 for all networks except local connections and connections from our serving networks;
- Restart the web server;
- Configure Nginx by modifying the configuration file;
- Configure Apache by modifying the configuration file.
For IIS, you will need to follow the actions in the instructions.
If you have any questions while setting up, please contact support.
