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Bot protection and Cloudflare

Some sites show a check page to every visitor that is not a browser. Our server then gets the check instead of your products, and the catalogue stops updating. The fix is one rule on your side.

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The Install tab with a red notice that bot protection shows our server a check page, and the addresses to allow.
The screenshots show the real dashboard with sample data from a demo shop, not a live one.

Which case is yours

Install saysWhat it meansThe fix
Bot protection (for example Cloudflare) shows our server a check pageA check meant for browsers: no header gets past it.Allow our addresses (below).
Your site’s protection blocks us. Turn on the pass below.Your own firewall refuses unknown servers.Create a rule for the pass header (below).

What our server looks like

Value
IPv4 address167.235.57.100
IPv6 address2a01:4f8:1c1a:acb6::1
User-Agent containsOneSiteAgency-AiShop
Optional pass headerX-OneSite-Pass

Allow both addresses. Our server reaches a site that has an IPv6 address over IPv6 first, so a rule for the IPv4 address alone does not match.

In Cloudflare

  1. Open the site, then Security, WAF, Tools, IP Access Rules.
  2. Add 167.235.57.100 with the action Allow, then add 2a01:4f8:1c1a:acb6::1 the same way.
  3. Back in Install press Check again. The catalogue is retried by itself.

If you use a pass header instead

  1. In Install, switch on the bot protection option next to your product source. It shows the header name and a value.
  2. In your firewall, create a rule that lets through requests carrying that header with that value. In Cloudflare: a WAF custom rule with the action Skip.
  3. Press Check again in Install.

Our server does not pretend to be a browser and never solves a check. A check you set up has to be opened by you, and that is why the rule comes from your side.

Other causes of a stale catalogue: The catalogue is not updating.

Still stuck?

Write to hello@onesite.agency. Send your shop address and what the Install tab says: it usually shows the cause.