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October 5, 2021, 11:29pm
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May I ask what have you tried so far?
Does your Website work over HTTPS?
What about the SSL certificate, do you actually have a valid one for your domain?
Furthermore, may I ask which SSL option have you got selected under the SSL/TLS tab of Cloudflare dashboard for your domain ? (Flexible, Full, Full Strict … )
Is it surely there is no Firewall Events or some other possible Security which could potentially block your requests?
Useful articles about 525 error you are encoutering so far for now:
Error
Try the suggestions in this Community Tip to help you fix Error 525 : SSL handshake failed .
Background
Error 525 indicates that the SSL handshake between Cloudflare and the origin web server failed. This only occurs when the domain is using Cloudflare Full or Full (Strict) SSL mode. This is typically caused by a configuration issue in the origin web server, when this happens, you’ll see “Error 525 : SSL handshake failed ”.
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Quick Fix Ideas
If you…
https://support.cloudflare.com/hc/en-us/articles/115003011431-Troubleshooting-Cloudflare-5XX-errors#525error
Particularly, correctly setup the SSL for your domain at first sight and possibly going step-by-step to troubleshoot the SSL handshake issue?
Here is a way to re-check if you correctly setup the SSL for your domain with Cloudflare:
This tutorial is deprecated in favour of Get started with SSL/TLS · Cloudflare SSL/TLS docs
Archive 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 <a href="https://community.cloudflare.com/t/64309">Step 1</a>.
Do you want the website to use HTTPS?
Yes
Do you already have a valid SSL certificate installed…
This tutorial is deprecated in favour of Troubleshooting · Cloudflare SSL/TLS docs
Archive This tutorial post covers the steps you should take if you have enabled Cloudflare, but HTTPS is not working on the site.
If your main domain is secure, but a subdomain is not, please see <a href="https://community.cloudflare.com/t/ssl-tls-not-working-on-subdomain/75181.">https://community.cloudflare.com/t/ssl-tls-not-working-on-subdomain/75181.</a>
1. Check that the DNS record is se…
In case you do not have an SSL certificate, you can use Cloudflare SSL, if so, kindly make sure you follow the instructions as follows on the below article to setup an SSL certificate using Cloudflare CA Origin Certificate:
Also, kindly have a look here for more information regarding correct SSL settings:
Unencrypted & unverified connections
Imagine you open Paypal and suddenly get that warning
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Would you continue? Probably not. For decades leaders in IT security have advocated that people upgrade their sites from unencrypted HTTP to secure HTTPS. And for a reason, everything you send via an HTTP connection is sent in plain text and can be intercepted at any point between you and the server.
Equally, you’d probably not proceed if you got such a warning, right?
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That’s when th…