Trying to install cloudflare bouncer

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Hi,

I’m already using the firewall bouncer and I’d like to add the cloudflare bouncer.

The thing is that I don’t really understand how to configure it.
The doc here explains a bit: Cloudflare Bouncer | CrowdSec

I installed the apt packet. Now I’m blocked at this step:

crowdsec-cloudflare-bouncer -g <CLOUDFLARE_TOKEN1>,<CLOUDFLARE_TOKEN2> -o /etc/crowdsec/bouncers/crowdsec-cloudflare-bouncer.yaml # auto-generate cloudflare config for provided space separated tokens

I have a CloudFlare token because I’m using the API to manage my WAF myself.
But why do I need 2 tokens? What permission must be set to the token?

I tried with my current token (so only one) and then executed the next command:

crowdsec-cloudflare-bouncer -s

From what I understand it’s supposed to create new WAF rules.
But it does nothing in my CloudFlare WAF and keeps executing, never stops.

Can someone help me understand please ?

Thank you

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Hey,

The example showing 2 tokens is just an example you can use one. The token must have the permissions shown here: Cloudflare Bouncer | CrowdSec, since you were already using the cloudflare WAF do you have any rules setup already? under the free tier you can only have one list per account.

Regards,
Laurence

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Hi,

Thank you for your answer.

I’m on a CloudFlare PRO plan and I only use 5 out of 20 WAF rules so I suppose it’s okay.

My problem might be the token’s permission. I’m gonna create a new one with the permissions you gave me and I’ll see if it works.

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Hello again,

It worked, it was just due to wrong permissions on the token :).
Maybe it would be good to display an error when the permissions are incorrect.

Thanks !

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Great! I will feed the information back glad it helped!