Create custom rules in the dashboard
Log in to the Cloudflare dashboard, and select your account and domain.
Go to Security > WAF > Custom rules.
Select Create rule.
Enter a descriptive name for the rule in Rule name.
Under If incoming requests match, use the Field drop-down list to choose an HTTP property. For each request, the value of the property you choose for Field is compared to the value you specify for Value using the operator selected in Operator.
Under Then take action, select the rule action in the Choose action dropdown. For example, selecting Block tells Cloudflare to refuse requests that match the conditions you specified.
(Optional) If you selected the Block action, you can configure a custom response.
To save and deploy your rule, select Deploy. If you are not ready to deploy your rule, select Save as Draft.
Configuring a custom response for blocked requests
When you select the Block action in a rule you can optionally define a custom response.
The custom response has three settings:
With response type: Choose a content type or the default WAF block response from the list. The available custom response types are the following:
Dashboard value API value Custom HTML "text/html"Custom Text "text/plain"Custom JSON "application/json"Custom XML "text/xml"With response code: Choose an HTTP status code for the response, in the range 400-499. The default response code is 403.
Response body: The body of the response. Configure a valid body according to the response type you selected. The maximum field size is 2 KB.