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Cloudflare SSL ISSUE too slow
Hello
I have used cloudflare for a long time.
Generally SSL starts working instantly now it has been more than 3 days it is stuck at initializing certificate
The Support team has not replied to my ticket which is over 2 days
I am aware that free users should be given less support but SSL in past was activated in few mins
Any ideas
BTW Domain TLD is .us eventhough I think its unrelated
Comments
Not much you can do when they are not providing support.
Either you need to wait for the response or this SSL to activate, or start paying so you can demand support.
Why don't you use Let's encrypt? Cloudflare will increase website load time.
How can he use Let's Encrypt when Cloudflare has to do MITM on his website? I don't think you can upload own certificates in the free version.
From what I recall, you may use your own certificate as long as it's not an EV.
@Arch_Liam you could be right - I've not logged in for over a year. Last I checked myself it was either theirs or none.
If you can upload your own certificate, then why OP don't go for Comodo at $5 and be done with it ?
I just looked it up - I was wrong. However, it does look like they offer something like $5 for a dedicated certificate, which is a lot cheaper than their $20/mo plan. I'd bet if you were paying for that, they'd have the support available to help resolve your issue.
Actually, you can use your own certificate just fine. I myself is using cloudflare. I am using shared ssl certificate. Works great so far. But some control panel automatically generate let's encrypt certificate, and it works fine with my cloudflare. I mainly using cloudflare to reducing the hop, makes my site load significantly faster.
Sometimes I reach the let's encrypt ssl limit, that's when Cloudflare Free Wildcard SSL comes into play.
Okay
I was looking for full SSL option and it was stuck for.more than three days...
Now its set for flexible and still not working
I wante to use CF thats all
Note
I hve lets encrypt working perfecty..
Just wanted to use caching and other benefits of cloudflare....
You can set the full option from CF and use cpanel provided SSL?
To have the full option or the full strict you still need to wait for cloudflare to issue their shared SSL. They usually take from few minutes to few hours to issue it, but this case seems to be an exception
If website is not active, you can try to remove and reactivate CloudFlare
No cpanel 1 website 1 vps...lolx...
Installing panel is simple not recommended in my case
Now coming to point
Yes ssl certificates are installed and working correctly if CF is turned off
Bu the problem lies in the issuance of the certificatecertificate in cf
Exactly my point dont know what to do :-)
Can you try delete it from cf and add it again?
Try with another domain, if you have one. Maybe try with a .com, since this one is .us
If the issue continues with the test domain, try to create another account...? I dont know
Its a live domain....
Okay will test
I think delete CF and change your domain nameserver back to original ,and change it back to CF does not affect you anything at all.
in best efforts, the cached domain dns results won't even be affected and realized nameserver and IP address was changed
I meant to use cloudflare for dns only.
Yes I forgot about the caching
Now
WORKING LIKE A CHARM :-)
SOLUTION:
Removed Domain from CF and then add it again ....
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