Invalid ssl certificate causing my website to go down

What is the name of the domain?

groundculture.co.za

What is the error number?

526

What is the error message?

Invalid SSL certificate Error code 526

What is the issue you’re encountering

My website has gone down and I don’t know what to do!! It says I have an invalid SSL certificate but I am not sure what that means.

What steps have you taken to resolve the issue?

I have contacted my domain provider and they told me I needed to contact Cloudflare as they are the the hosting provider. Please can someone help me with what do to do get my site live again?

What are the steps to reproduce the issue?

go to www.groundculture.co.za and the errors will list.

Screenshot of the error

Error 526 means the SSL certificate on your origin server is invalid. If it was working, but then stopped, it likely means the origin SSL certificate has expired. Check on your server/with your host to arrange for renewal.

You may need to pause Cloudflare or set the DNS record to “DNS only” so requests go direct to your server/host to all the SSL certificate there to renew, or so you can see the problem that Cloudflare is seeing.

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