# Connect Cloudflare and deploy the cache

> Link your Cloudflare account in one click, deploy the cache Worker, and check it's working. (Pro)

Source: https://arraystory.com/docs/ajaxpress/connect-cloudflare/

Setting up Super Cache takes a couple of minutes: approve AjaxPress in your Cloudflare account, then deploy. There's no API token to create or copy.

Before you start, check [what you need](https://arraystory.com/docs/ajaxpress/cloudflare-super-cache/#what-you-need): AjaxPress Pro, your domain on Cloudflare with its DNS record proxied, and a Cloudflare account that can run Workers.

## 1. Connect your account

1. Go to **Settings → AjaxPress → Cache**.
2. Click **Connect with Cloudflare**.
3. Cloudflare opens. Sign in if you need to, choose the account that holds your domain, and approve AjaxPress.
4. You're sent back to the Cache tab.

AjaxPress then looks for the Cloudflare zone that matches your site's domain. When it finds it, you'll see **Connected to your Cloudflare account. Matching zone found for this site**, with the route the cache will use, such as `example.com/*`.

## 2. Deploy

Click **Deploy Cache**. AjaxPress installs a small Cloudflare Worker on your zone and routes your site through it. It takes a few seconds.

When it's done, the Cache tab shows the [status panel](https://arraystory.com/docs/ajaxpress/cache-status-and-health/). Pages are cached as visitors request them, and AjaxPress also starts [caching all your pages](https://arraystory.com/docs/ajaxpress/cache-all-pages/) in the background, the most important ones first.

## 3. Check it's working

1. Open a page of your site in a private window, and reload it once.
2. On the Cache tab, click **Check cache health**. It requests your home page and a few recent posts and pages, and reports how many came from Cloudflare's cache (**HIT**) and how many from your server (**MISS**).

A page is a MISS the first time it's requested, then a HIT. A few MISSes on a fresh cache are normal. Browse a little, then check again.

## If your domain isn't found

**"Your site domain is not found in your Cloudflare account"** means the account you approved doesn't manage this domain. Check that:

- you approved the Cloudflare **account** that holds the domain (if you have several);
- the domain is **active** in that account, not pending nameserver changes;
- your site's address in **Settings → General** matches the domain in Cloudflare, including `www` or not.

Fix it, then click **Check for zones again**.

## Where your credentials go

The one-click connection passes through a small authorization relay we run on Cloudflare (`ajaxpress-oauth.astory.workers.dev`), so that no secret key has to ship inside the plugin. The relay exchanges Cloudflare's one-time code for an access token and hands it straight to your site, which stores it encrypted in your database. From then on, AjaxPress talks to the Cloudflare API directly from your server. See [Privacy and data](https://arraystory.com/docs/ajaxpress/privacy-and-data/).

## Next

- [Keep pages out of the cache](https://arraystory.com/docs/ajaxpress/exclude-pages-from-the-cache/): anything personal to one visitor.
- [Cache all pages in advance](https://arraystory.com/docs/ajaxpress/cache-all-pages/), so first visitors get cached pages too.