What is SSL and How Fix Cloudflare SSL Error
Hi to all, in this article I am going to tell you all about how to fix cloudflare SSL error easily in just few minutes in both blogger and WordPress.
So, read the below provided steps carefully and completely to get clear understanding about fixing the SSL error in cloudflare without any issue or error.
You can easily fix always use HTTPS errors and redirect all your non www to www pages.
Mainly in few times, when we are setting up the Cloudflare with your Blogger or WordPress websites, then there is an SSL handshake error which occurs in this process. This generally occurs due to the misconfiguration of SSL in the Cloudflare with your original servers.
What is SSL
Basically SSL is a digital certificate, which authenticates a websites identity and enables a secure connection between web servers and the browsers.
The full for of SSL is "Secure Sockets Layer" and it is a security protocol that helps to secure online transactions and keeps customer information secure and private.
That’s why every website needs to enable this SSL security feature in their websites and in this way they can secure and prevents criminals from reading or modifying information transferred between the different two systems.
Mainly this SSL has initiated nearly 25 years ago and now there are multiple versions of this SSL protocol. Now a new and updated security protocol TLS or Transport Layer Security is used by most of the websites in the globe.
Steps to Setup SSL in Cloudflare
First of all we will see important SSL settings in cloudflare.
First of all sign-in to your cloudflare dashboard by using your credentials and click on the SSL/TLS section and in the overview section set the encryption mode to full.
Now you need to shift to edge certificate section within the same tab and you need to check the SSL status and expiry date.
Now you need to scroll down & then turn on the following settings given below.
- Always Use HTTPS
- Minimum TLS Version (TLS 1.0)
- Opportunistic Encryption
- TLS 1.3
- Automatic HTTPS Rewrites
Now the SSL settings in cloudflare are done. These settings will apply to all CMS platforms including WordPress and Blogger.
Now you need to check whether the SSL certificate is working properly on your website or not and here check if the HTTP pages are redirecting to HTTPS automatically or not and also check if the non www pages are redirecting to www pages or not
Fix SSL Errors in Cloudflare
If you are still having issues with the SSL certificate or your website is not redirecting to HTTPS pages then you have to fix this issue by using the Cloudflare page rules.
And to enable page rules, click on the Rules section in the cloudflare dashboard and now you can see screen as shown in the below image.
Here you have to create two page rules to fix this issue of SSL certificate and Mix content errors.
Page Rule 1
Now you need to click on create page rules and add the domain name without adding WWW in the first field as shown in the below image.
And select the forwarding URL in the dropdown and select 301 Permanent Redirect.
In the below field enter your domain name with WWW and add $1 after the domain as shown in above provided image.
Here you need to paste the URL correctly and (*) asterisk and $1 in the URL structure is very important.
Page Rule 2
Now you need to add the URL of your website as mentioned in the below format and select the And select the always use HTTPS and then click on save button.
Now after adding the two Page Rules, you can easily solve your SSL issue in Blogger websites and WordPress websites and it also redirects to non www pages to www pages automatically. so anyone can access your website by just typing the domain name only.
And also it can be helpful or solving mix content errors in your WordPress and blogger websites.
If you are still facing this issue then you should check your SSL settings in your CMS platform and if you are using WordPress you can use the "Really Simple SSL" plugin to solve this issue.
And if you are using the blogger website then you can easily enable SSL within the blogger settings. you need to just turn on HTTPS availability and HTTPS redirect.
Conclusion
I hope that you all have understood about how to fix SSL error in cloudflare easily in just few minutes in both Blogger and WordPress without any issue or error.
