I need SSL for my custom domain for teachable. Need it from you as my new hosting platform

[user10810]

I’ve redirected my hosting to cloudflare for a custom domain with teachable. Custom domain not working.

I hosted originally with host gator

[fritex]

May I ask what is your domain name?

From the topic title, firstly to understand that Cloudflare is not a hosting provider company.

Secondly, if you are interested into getting an SSL certificate from Cloudflare for your domain/website without purchasing one, kindly go with Cloudflare Origin CA certificate from the below article:

https://support.cloudflare.com/hc/en-us/articles/115000479507-Managing-Cloudflare-Origin-CA-certificates

Note: This certificate should not be used with e-mail service and you would actually need one to make sure your e-mails and other is secured.

Nevertheless, here is the step-by-step instructions how to setup SSL with Cloudflare:

Step 2: Setting up SSL with Cloudflare

This tutorial covers getting SSL working with Cloudflare in various different scenarios. This assumes you already have your website set up on Cloudflare with all your DNS records set to , if not - please visit Step 1. Do you want the website to use HTTPS?

Yes

Do you already have a valid SSL certificate installed on your server (i.e. does it already load over HTTPS with a )? Yes If your website already works over HTTPS, you can just set your SSL mode in Cloudflare to Full (strict)…

Furthermore, may I ask how did you redirected your hosting to Cloudflare?

I assume you have done the steps as written below:

1. Created an Cloudflare account
2. Added your domain/Website to your Cloudflare account
3. Changed the nameservers for your domain at your domain registar to provided ones from Cloudflare in the process of adding your domain/website to your Cloudflare account
4. Checked the DNS records at Cloudflare Dashboard and setup the SSL as needed

The step-by-step instructions from above written can be found here:

Step 1: Adding your domain to Cloudflare

This tutorial covers creating a Cloudflare account, adding a domain, changing nameservers and checking imported DNS records. Sign up Go to dash.cloudflare.com/sign-up, enter your Email and create a password, read the terms and notices and click ‘Create Account’ [Sign-Up Page] Add site Enter your domain. This has to be your actual domain (e.g. mydomain.com or mydomain.co.uk) and must not include any domain specific hostnames (e.g. www.mydomain.com or similar). Furthermore the domain has to …

Your content is still being hosted and managed at HostGator.

Regarding HostGator, there are topics how to connect custom domain with Cloudflare while using HostGator as a hosting provider. Hostgator is compatible with Cloudflare.

Here: Search results for 'hostgator' - Cloudflare Community

Another example how to connect your domain with HostGator and Cloudflare (example for WordPress website):

How to Configure Your Hostgator Wordpress Site With Cloudflare - Answer Your...

[user10810]

I followed the instructions. I was asked to delete a records. I added c names. This made my website go down so I had to add a record back. I currently have 1 cname and 3 a records.

h3.wholebrothermission.com is my custom domain for teachable. When you visit it it isn’t working. What should be happening is that it should be redirecting to https://www.h3-academy1.teachable.com/ still with only h3.wholebrothermission.com visible in the url address bar. That isn’t happening. I’ve been advised by host gator that they believe I need an ssl certificate from cloudflare. That’s the missing piece