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What is the domain name?
lizzylizards
Have you searched for an answer?
For about 7 hours straight now I have been trying to solve this issue. Cloudflare doesn’t really offer much support for such a detrimental security plugin for Websites.
Please share your search results url:
“invalid ssl certificate, host error”
When you tested your domain using the [Cloudflare Diagnostic Center] , what were the results?
The issues it came up with … The hostname has no DS records. , HTTPS status “No, your request failed with a response status of 400 or above.”, No, the website doesn’t redirect HTTP traffic to HTTP., The site’s web server responded with a status code that isn’t 200 (OK).
Describe the issue you are having:
I can’t access the Wordpress admin to edit the Website, on other browsers and devices it shows the same “invalid ssl Certificate error” so I can’t even view the Website.
What error message or number are you receiving?
error 526( when ssl is set to Full STRICT) I then switched to just ssl (FULL) and got the error 524 timeout error.
What steps have you taken to resolve the issue?
- Checked ssl status with 2 separate SSL checkers (both came back saying everything was configured perfectly)
- Checked host ssl , which is still active provider by lets encrypted.
- made sure host automated Https is toggled ON.
- Made sure Cloudflare always use https is on , as well as automated https rewrites are on
- Tested Developer mode and pause Cloudflare on site toggles , didn’t do anything.
- tried to create a dn hostname record by enabling dnssec then I tried to configure the dn record however could not figure out what to put in the “name” field that’s required. I tried almost all names and keys I could think of.
Was the site working with SSL prior to adding it to Cloudflare?
Yes, however I switched to Cloudflare from quiccloud and had to delete my account from quic.cloud I’m not sure if that may have trigged something. However that has after the fact I transferred my dns and name servers to Cloudflare and deleted all zones and websites out of quick.cloud.
Have you tried from another browser and/or incognito mode?
Yes , I have tried from my wp admin , on Chrome, on private browsers as a viewer, many different ways.