Purge Cloudflare caches from Craft.
This is the updated Craft 3 plugin. Craft 2 version here.
This plugin makes it possible to purge Cloudflare caches directly from Craft. You can initiate purges manually, either individual URLs or an entire zone, and configure options that purge automatically when certain things happen. By default, you'll have an interface for manually clearing stuff and any changed Assets will get their URLs automatically purged. You can also configure the plugin to automatically clear Entry URLs automatically, or even clear specific URLs based on patterns that you provide.
Install from the plugin store (at some point), or composer require workingconcept/craft-cloudflare.
If you're tinkering with the plugin, check out a copy of the repository and add the following to your Craft site's project.json:
"repositories": [
{
"type": "path",
"url": "../craft-cloudflare-plugin/"
}
]
As long as the URL points to the right local path, Composer will maintain a symbolic link that'll let you easily adjust the plugin's source and evaluate it from the context of your project.
After you've installed the Cloudflare plugin, visit Settings → Cloudflare and provide the details that'll allow it to work.
You can also create a config/cloudflare.php file if you'd like to define or override settings that way:
<?php
return [
'apiKey' => '',
'email' => 'you@yourdomain.com',
'zone' => '', // zone ID
'purgeEntryUrls' => false,
'purgeAssetUrls' => true,
];If you'd like to use environment variables, you can do that too:
<?php
return [
'apiKey' => getenv('CLOUDFLARE_API_KEY'),
'email' => getenv('CLOUDFLARE_EMAIL'),
'zone' => getenv('CLOUDFLARE_ZONE_ID'), // zone ID
'purgeEntryUrls' => getenv('CLOUDFLARE_PURGE_ENTRY_URLS', false),
'purgeAssetUrls' => getenv('CLOUDFLARE_PURGE_ASSET_URLS', true),
];Provide the Global API Key you'll find in My Profile in Cloudflare's control panel.
Provide the email address you use to log in to Cloudflare. Once you've supplied this with and the API key, click the "Verify Credentials" button and you should get a green check indicating you're ready to roll.
Choose relevant Cloudflare Zone for your site. Once you save the plugin settings, the Cloudflare plugin will be ready to do stuff.
If enabled, any time an entry with a URL is updated or deleted, the plugin will send its URL to Cloudflare to be purged. This can be helpful if you're fully caching your site, and you'd know if you were. By default, Cloudflare only caches static assets like images, JavaScript, and stylesheets.
When enabled, as it is by default, the plugin will automatically have Cloudflare purge caches whenever an Asset with a URL is updated or deleted. This solves the common problem of re-uploading an image and not seeing it change on the front end because Cloudflare's hanging onto the version it cached.
This isn't a setting, just a tool in an awkward place. Add whatever absolute URLs you want, one per line, and choose Purge URLs to have Cloudflare try and purge them.
This one button will purge the entire cache for the zone you've specified. Be very sure you want to push it.
You can manually purge individual URLs or the entire zone, either from the plugin settings page or via the convenient Cloudflare Purge Dashboard widget, whose function is identical but with a more adorable appearance.
You can use the previously-mentioned Automatically Purge Entry URLs and Automatically Purge Asset URLs settings to proactively clear caches on specific URLs immediately after actions are taken in the control panel. You can also use simple pattern rules to clear specific URLs. (Read on.)
Clear your entire zone cache or specific URLs from the console! Useful for deployments.
# purge entire zone
./craft cloudflare/purge/purge-all
# purge comma-separated list of urls
./craft cloudflare/purge/purge-urls https://foo.com/wombat.jpg,https://cdn.foo.com/stoat.jpgThis timid feature is hidden at /admin/cloudflare/rules, where you can add rows to a table that define simple rules for clearing specific URLs. If you've cached your blog index, for example, at /blog, and you post a new entry at /blog/my-new-entry, you're going to want your index purged so the new post shows up. In this case, you'd add a URL Trigger Pattern of blog/*, and blog in the Clear URLs column. (You can list a new relative URL on each line, just know that Cloudflare will only accept up to 30 of them.)
The plugin will alert you from the beginning if your credentials are incorrect, but you can check Craft's web.log if you need to dig further. The Cloudflare plugin traces its initialization as well as any attempts to clear URLs or an entire zone. Each API interaction will include the ID Cloudflare responded with and any relevant URLs.
Returns a list of zones available for the supplied Cloudflare account. Each zone is basically a domain.
Purges the entire zone cache for whichever zone you've specified in the plugin's settings.
Purges the supplied array of absolute URLs. These URLs must use the same domain name as the zone or it won't work.
Returns all RuleRecords formatted for the simple editor at /admin/cloudflare/rules.
Saves rules from the editor, automatically converting the second column's lines to a JSON array.
Takes the supplied URL and purges any related URLs as defined by matching rules.
Returns an array of RuleRecords whose trigger pattern matches the supplied URL.
File an issue and I'll try to respond promptly and thoughtfully. This is a free-time project, so I appreciate your patience.
Feature requests and pull requests welcome! Please just mind your formatting and help me understand your intent.
- Extensive production testing.
- Handle bulk Element operations efficiently. (There could be a lot of Cloudflare requests.)
- Give rules and non-widget cache-clearing tools a proper home.
- See if it's possible to dig deeper into how Craft clears its own caches and mirror the approach so we rely less on manually-specified rules.
This plugin is brought to you by Working Concept, which has no affiliation with Cloudflare.