HACKER Q&A
📣 willhackett

Has anybody had luck making Webflow work behind Cloudflare?


We're proxying traffic to Webflow via Cloudflare Workers so we can do custom routing for our product. Webflow is used in our stack for marketing content.

Webflow wants us to be on Enterprise to get this "Reverse Proxy as a Service" feature. This costs $50k minimum per annum.

Has anybody had any luck in getting Webflow to work consistently behind Cloudflare? We've got it semi-working, but get the occasional HTTP 406 for a few hours every now and then when they block Cloudflare's IP range.

  👤 clintmiller Accepted Answer ✓
I don't use it behind Cloudflare, but I was able to get Nginx reverse-proxying traffic to Webflow. Here's part of that config:

  upstream webflow {
    server proxy-ssl.webflow.com:443;
  }

  location @webflow {
    resolver ;
    proxy_pass https://webflow;

    proxy_set_header Host $webflow_host;
    proxy_set_header X-Real-IP $remote_addr;
    proxy_set_header X-Forwarded-For $proxy_add_x_forwarded_for;
    proxy_set_header X-Forwarded-Proto $corrected_proxy_scheme;

    proxy_ssl_verify off;
    proxy_ssl_session_reuse on;
    proxy_ssl_server_name on;
    proxy_ssl_name $webflow_host;
  }
Elsewhere (a Lua script), I set the $webflow_host variable and URI for the request, which is exec-ed from that Lua script (which is basically an internal redirect to the @webflow location block).
👤 jamesvnz
I have - but did so by putting a Cloud Run nginx proxy between Cloudflare and Webflow.

I haven't had issues with Cloudflare blocking IPs - however the site in question is rather low traffic, so we probably don't pop up on their list.

Main reason for doing this was having routing control. We also had a long list of redirects to manage from an old site, and it was easier to do this in an nginx config.

👤 hardwaresofton
Would you mind explaining a little more? You’re trying to get a subpath (let’s say /about) proxied through from your main site right?

Does your site change so fast that punishing it then hosting it yourself doesn’t work?

👤 austinpena
Use proxy.webflow.com for your cname if you face a redirect loop (though I’m thinking that’s not your problem after re-reading it)

Can you cache the requests more aggressively?