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Sunday, January 29, 2017

Activate Free SSL Certificate for Your Website

Anyone who wants to increase performance and security of your web page, I suggest to have Cloudflare setup in your DNS system. I have posted few articles to install paid SSL certificate for your web page, all which needs your complete support to maintain. But, Cloudflare provides free SSL certificates with a limited access (which is enough for any website) and it takes care most of the support that your web page needs. Most importantly, nowadays Google is providing better preferences for the web pages which has HTTPs as the protocol and more chances for your web page to appear on Google search.

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Cloudflare protects from DDoS attacks and other threats to protect your bandwidth and server resources being wasted. It allows your web page visitors to have the fastest page loading by which it also improves the performance level. it provides many other services if you want make best performance and attack free website. Below are the steps to configure SSL certificate of Cloudflare.


Step 1
Go to cloudflare.com and create a free plan account.
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Step 2
Add your website in cloudflare, this will scan your website name servers and suggest you new name servers in following way.
Activate Free SSL Certificate for Your Website

Step 3
Now go to your domain provider eg: Godaddy and modify domain name server address with new names.

Note: Take a copy of your domain record settings eg: CNAME, TXT, MX etc.

Step 4
Once Step 3 finished, cloudflare will active your website. And you will find following menu options.
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Step 5
Click on the DNS and add your CNAME records settings. Sometimes cloudflare will automatically access your old records.
Activate Free SSL Certificate for Your Website

Step 6
Go to Crypto and activate your free SSL(https). Choose Flexible option for SSL.
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Step 7
Same page scroll down and enable automatic HTTPs rewrites option.
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Step 8
If you are a Wordpress user, go to Page Rules and add following page rules. This will help to redirect existing Wordpress pages to HTTPs
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Step 9
Menu Overview option will provide you all of the website analytics.
Activate Free SSL Certificate for Your Website

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Step 10
Add your website in Google Webmaster Tools for Google search indexing.


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30 comments:

  1. UnknownJanuary 30, 2017 at 2:54 AM

    Don't forget to change all resources in your code to https as well (images, javascript, banners, etc) to prevent a warning message in browsers

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  2. SelvamJillaJanuary 30, 2017 at 6:16 AM

    can you explain the same thing for bluehost hosting provider

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    1. Srinivas TamadaJanuary 30, 2017 at 10:38 AM

      Nothing much with Bluehost, go to manage domain settings and modify your website nameserver

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  3. van aldrin sarzateJanuary 30, 2017 at 6:28 AM

    Hello Srinivas, I tried all but I had this issue:

    error Certificate verification failed!
    The system did not find the Certificate Authority Bundle that matches this certificate.
    Contact “CloudFlare, Inc.” to obtain the Certificate Authority Bundle for “”.

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    1. Srinivas TamadaJanuary 30, 2017 at 10:39 AM

      Could you send me the screenshot.

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    2. UnknownFebruary 28, 2017 at 8:10 AM

      The certificate could not be installed on the domain “aqsesuari.ge”.
      error Certificate verification failed!
      UNABLE_TO_VERIFY_LEAF_SIGNATURE

      Delete
  4. dexJanuary 30, 2017 at 4:59 PM

    What about virtual host setup, do we need to change anything on server like virtual host file on apache?

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  5. blackroseJanuary 31, 2017 at 11:27 PM

    hello SRINIVAS TAMADA,
    can i add https by using my existing hosting to use your process ?

    Thankyou.

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  6. UnknownFebruary 1, 2017 at 2:12 AM

    Hi Srinias.

    I tried it but I'm getting an error. This site cannot provide secure connection.

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  7. YAS MalikFebruary 1, 2017 at 4:40 AM

    i have installed at 101newsupdate.com but its showing https in gray color. how can i do it in green?

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    1. Srinivas TamadaFebruary 1, 2017 at 10:21 AM

      Replace http urls to https eg: js, css and image urls

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    2. Chhinh SovathFebruary 8, 2017 at 9:51 AM

      i think i got this one meet my question as well. thanks i will try to change it.

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  8. UnknownFebruary 2, 2017 at 12:42 AM

    HI sir, Updated perfectly in cloudflare and godaddy as mentioned in your post, but not refelecting in my magento site.

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  9. blackroseFebruary 6, 2017 at 4:21 AM

    Its working. Thankyou.

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  10. Satveer RathoreFebruary 8, 2017 at 10:41 AM

    Really Awesome its working

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  11. Himanshu AgarwalFebruary 14, 2017 at 10:03 AM

    Thank You for posting amazing tutorials. However i wanted to know how can i disable caching in cloudflare but still keep ssl certificate active. I have wp rocket installed as cache plugin on my wordpress site.

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    1. Srinivas TamadaFebruary 28, 2017 at 10:08 AM

      There is an option to disable caching, try to look into dashboard setting.

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  12. Veritable InfoFebruary 27, 2017 at 3:38 AM

    what is the process to do same with sub-domain websites

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  13. Veritable InfoFebruary 27, 2017 at 3:55 AM

    How to display "secure" on address bar.

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    1. Srinivas TamadaFebruary 28, 2017 at 10:10 AM

      Replace all of your website URL to https like css, js, image src etc

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  14. Jagadish Prasad BMarch 5, 2017 at 8:42 AM

    I followed all the steps you explained, but ia am getting
    Status: Pending

    Please ensure your website is using the nameservers provided:

    Now, what to do, please explain.

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  15. UnknownMarch 13, 2017 at 8:28 AM

    i need a demo for AWS SES - PHP Mailer

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  16. AMIT9XMMarch 19, 2017 at 7:40 AM

    hii, Can you desgine a fb type chat system. chat box placing one after another calculating chatbox width and placing other chat box pre -the earlier chatbox--

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  17. FannyApril 20, 2017 at 3:27 AM

    Does this still work? i will try it first

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  18. Edu HowOctober 27, 2017 at 11:02 AM

    hi when i use cloudflare ssl certificate on my blogspot there i faced mixed content problem...how i solve this problem ..

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    1. Srinivas TamadaOctober 30, 2017 at 1:35 PM

      Try to replace all of the URLs with https and following Step 7 & 8 for page rules.

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  19. Vikash Kumar SinghJanuary 8, 2018 at 5:26 AM

    “Access denied” when testing HTTPS site in Google's Structured Data Testing Tool after activation of Cloudflare SSL in my WordPress blog

    ReplyDelete
  20. UnknownDecember 27, 2018 at 7:25 AM

    how to enable ssl on aws ec2 instance?

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