Whitelisting smoove in Cloudflare protection layer

Objective

Synchronizing woocommerce stores hosted behind a web application firewall (WAF) such as Cloudflare, which require additional configurations to ensure secure and reliable API communication. This guide provides a step-by-step approach to configuring your WAF and enabling smoove to retrieve data from your e-commerce store seamlessly.

WAF

Serves as a protective barrier between web applications and potential threats, filtering and monitoring HTTP traffic to and from the application. While this enhances security, it can pose challenges for API interactions, potentially blocking legitimate synchronization requests. To overcome this, specific settings must be applied to the WAF configuration, ensuring that API calls from Smoove are recognized and authorized.

How to do it?

In the WAF provider's management dashboard

1. Access the WAF settings