G-Olly

Hi @mbrsolution have you managed to speak to the author about whther or not this is a conlict? (my theme is Avada)

Thats great thanks for letting me know.

OK, thanks @mbrsolution, I will await a response

@mbrsolution do you have a link to the 4.0.43 version? As this worked correctly on my set up.

Cheers

@mbrsolution do you have a link to a copy of the previous version?

Yes, it was displaying correctly before the update.

@thellimist,

The server is running Apache. So the plugin should rewrite to origin IPs?

@jwineman,

I’ll ask if they are seeing a legitimate attack and contact CF if they are.

Thanks,
Olly

Hi thellimist, OK so my hosts have said that they did blacklist the CloudFlare IPs as they were seeing them as an attack, and also the amount of requests was making the server unstable. For the time being I have thought that I might have to use LiteSpeed to sort this out. But I also wonder if there is a way within this plugin of letting the server receive the visitors IPs rather than CFs IPs as this amount from a small range can be seen as an attack by some hosts. I don’t won’t my hosts to relax their good work in keeping attacks under control but I would also like to be able to use CloudFlare without this again becoming an issue. Cheers

@thellimist Thanks for getting back to me. I’m still awaiting responses off my hosts but if the IPs are not the cause, how will I check for plugins throwing out too many MySQL requests? There is a plugin called P3 that seems like it would have been perfect but it has not been updated for a year and so is unsupported. Also I have read in many posts that people have found that CFs page rules were the main culprits of this error. How would you suggest I go through testing these and the best way of checking?

Hi Tanveer, thanks for getting back in touch. It seems as if this error was being generated by CloudFlare timming out on connection. I have got passed it at the moment by disabling the CDN and serving straight from my host server. It seems (on research) that this can be for a few reasons, most notably that the connection is getting blocked by a firewall or a plugin is causing too many requests. I have asked my hosts to whitelist all of the CloudFlare IPs, if this does not sort out the issue it maybe a plugin causing it, in which case I will have to find the offending plugin to sort it out.

If this is the case, do you know of any plugins that quantify MySQL requests apart from the P3 one (as this doesn’t seem to have been updated for a while)?

Thanks

I don’t know, probably not, if it isn’t the IPs issue then I will try and figure out the culprit. I will let you know if it is.

Indeed, today I received a 522 error on the site. Seems like CloudFlare was not communicating to my site in a timely manner eventually throwing up a 522 error page. For the moment I have disabled CloudFlare to serve directly off the site server and this seems to fixed the current 522 error. Having researched this further it seems like it could just be a firewall not letting the requests through so have asked my hosts to whitelist CFs IPs to see if that fixes the issue. If not then it seems like I will have to see if there is a plugin causing too many requests somewhere.

Emailed you the URL

Will do

Ahh no, it seems that it is one of the computers in the office. This computer is not turned on until the afternoon which is also around the time that I have been updating the website. It seems that because that these happened around the same time I immediately put the blame on the update. Today I didn’t update anything, the website was fine until this other computer turned on connected to the network. As soon as that happened I was again 403’d from the website/server. I disconnected the computer from the network, restarted the router and boom, I can edit, look and do whatever on the site/server without any 403 happening. WOOHOO!!