Can I Use Cloudflare's Proxy (Orange Cloud) With Magic Pages?

No. Use DNS-only mode (the gray cloud) for all DNS records pointing to Magic Pages.

This is the only configuration we can guarantee will work reliably. Enabling Cloudflare's proxy (the orange cloud) in front of your Magic Pages site will, sooner or later, break your Ghost admin panel.

Here's a bit of a technical background on why this will eventually break:

Why You Shouldn’t Put a CDN in Front of Magic Pages

I got two support tickets today. Same error, same root cause, two different customers. Both locked out of their own Ghost admin panel with this message: Request was rejected because user is not permitted to perform this operation. Both had Cloudflare’s orange cloud enabled. Both were confused because they didn’t

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What About Magic Pages' Own CDN?

Magic Pages's Pro plan includes a CDN that's built specifically for Ghost. It uses Ghost's X-Cache-Invalidate header to purge content instantly when you publish or update something. The cache exclusion rules are maintained for each Ghost version, so you don't have to think about it.

Putting another CDN in front of this mitigates the benefit of that. The stuff that should be excluded from caching is now being cached by the second Cloudflare layer.

The Fix

If you're currently locked out of your Ghost admin panel, and you have Cloudflare's proxy enabled:

1. Log into your Cloudflare dashboard.
2. Go to DNS → Records.
3. Find the records pointing to Magic Pages.
4. Click the orange cloud icon to switch it to DNS only (gray cloud).
5. Wait a minute or two, then try accessing /ghost/ again.

Your site will continue to work exactly as before – the DNS still points to Magic Pages, and the built-in CDN handles the rest.