CloudFlare features not working on proxied website

What is the name of the domain?

What is the issue you’re encountering

SSL/TLS, Redirection Rules, etc. nothing seems to be working on this proxied website. The website is hosted on Weebly. SSL is enabled. I tried to troubleshot this for days, no success. Can you take a look please?

The website you provided works fine from my end… and it seems to be using Cloudflare proxy, complete with SSL, WAF geoblocking, and apex to www redirection.

Have you got this sorted already?

If not, can you please explain what exactly is not working? And what specific error message/code are you seeing?

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Hi George, thanks for responding. There is no error. It just seems to me that the Rules that I created are not working, I can change them, disable them and the result is the same as if the website is proxied or not proxied. For instance, I created a rule that should redirect from http to https and it should be the same one to apply, but the website is first redirecting to www and then to https. Same as if there was no Cloudflare proxy. Also, HSTS headers are not seen by https://hstspreload.org. Is there a way I verify rules and actions taken by Cloudflare, sort of logs that I can enable and review?

For instance, if I go to Analytics & Logs, it shows there has been no traffic for the last 24 hours:

I believe Weebly is a Cloudflare customer, so your settings might be skipped in favour of theirs.

So your CF account is essentially skipped.

My other website bluecorela.com works fine. I change a rule or HSTS settings in Cloudflare and I can see the effect immediately… Unlike ciocore.com. Both are hosted in weebly.com and both are proxied with Cloudflare.

The difference that I see between the two is the IP address that Weebly gave me. I will try using the IP address of the website that is working with the other one and see what happens. I even contacted Weebly customer service and they did not have a clue. Wanted me to use their namesevers, which was not a solution for me.

Also, how can I check which hosting provider is a Cloudflare customer, so that I can avoid this? Cloudflare should make this issue obvious.

Can you share screenshots of your DNS records for both sites?

It might very well be the different IPs.

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ciocore.com (the one ignoring all Cloudflare features)

Both are configured with the IP addresses provided by Weebly.

bluecorela.com (the one working as expected, also hosted by Weebly).

Alternatively, if someone can recommend a hosting company (besides Weebly) that is well know to work without issues with Cloudflare. Thanks a lot.

Those IPs are both routed via Cloudflare.

I can’t tell you why it works for one domain but not for the other, though. Might be that Cloudflare made changes in the time since you added the first domain, but I wouldn’t know about that.

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