I have tried loading ssl certificate from cloudflare but after generating the api key and adding to the cloudflare plugin i get an error saying my domain is not registered with cloudflare.
Then i just tried to access my wordpress site via the www.tamariuchalet.com url and the site had a padlock. under investigation its shows a google ssl certificate ??
That’s the proxy certificate. You need the certificate for your server. Follow the steps previously mentioned and make sure your server is properly configured, then it will work on Cloudflare.
I have created certificates and installed them within windows 10, however my attempts to port them into the wordpress environment have not been successful. I manged to lock myself out of wordpress for a while… which was a bit worrying!! I started to use a plugin called real simple ssl but this was going to create new certificates from a company called Let’s Encrypt, but thought that this would make things even more complicated and messy. I am now back in wordpress but the cloudflare plugin message is still there. The dns still points to 188.114.96.5 and the ddns address is [79.116.133.2. would this not have to be fixed prior to the chnage to ssl?
Not really a VPN, it’s an additional application you need to install on your server, which connects your web server with Cloudflare. As your server is actually connecting here, you won’t need to take the IP address into account, however you do need to maintain additional software.
And the credit for that suggestion actually goes to @epic.network because for me it was forest → trees
It may be the more elegant solution for your use-case as you do not need to deal with dynamic addresses, as long as you do not mind the Cloudflare service running on your server.
Both resolve. However the second entry www.tamariuchalet.com points to a DNS record which does not exist and as a result Cloudflare can’t forward the requests anywhere. Thus it returns a 530 error when you attempt to reach the site.
But without a valid root record for tamariuchalet.com traffic can’t route anywhere.
188.114.96.5 is a Cloudflare IP address. Cloudflare is a proxy. In order to proxy traffic it advertises an IP address on it’s edge to receive the request and proxies them to the origin.
./cloudflared.exe tunnel create cloudflarelink
2023-06-06T09:16:36Z ERR Cannot determine default origin certificate path. No file cert.pem in [~/.cloudflared ~/.cloudflare-warp ~/cloudflare-warp]. You need to specify the origin certificate path by specifying the origincert option in the configuration file, or set TUNNEL_ORIGIN_CERT environment variable originCertPath=
failed to create tunnel: couldn’t create client to talk to Cloudflare Tunnel backend: Error locating origin cert: client didn’t specify origincert path
I keep getting this error when setting up the cloudflare service…
