How to connect Cloudflare DNS through proxy

[akulmehta]

Cloudflare offers to connect the DNS record to the server with Proxy enabled or Proxied (see https://developers.cloudflare.com/dns/proxy-status/#proxied-records).

From Cloudflare's documentation this offers several benefits:

When you set a DNS record to Proxied (also known as orange-clouded), Cloudflare can:

• Protect your origin server from DDoS attacks ↗.
• Optimize, cache, and protect all requests to your application.
• Apply your configurations for a variety of Cloudflare products.

When I try to enable it, the spin deployed app is not accessible but in DNS only mode it is accessible.

From the video @jaydrogers shows that he switches the Proxy status to DNS only (see https://youtu.be/I_dq-kRDztI?si=sboQBnjhtzKeA-wi&t=492) and it works under that mode too. In his other demo (see https://youtu.be/9dfW2eI9Joo?si=VraFfngiyyzwQwke&t=653) he says you can keep the proxied status to on but he turns it off. So not sure if it actually works with it on?

As the above is beneficial - can someone share how to get the proxied mode to work with a spin deployed application?

[akulmehta]

@jaydrogers any advice on this?

[jaydrogers]

We use CloudFlare all the time with Spin Pro. Make sure you understand these concepts that I have documented here: https://getspin.pro/docs/advanced/configure-dns-records-for-your-app#cloudflare-only-configure-ssl-mode

If you're still having issues, post the error message of what you're seeing