After getting SSL from Cloudflare

  • Resolved gosilver01

    (@gosilver01)


    10 months, 1 week ago

    Hi there,

    I recently obtained an SSL certificate from Cloudflare for my website and installed the Really Simple SSL plugin.

    On Really Simple SSL page, it says “5% SSL is not yet enabled on this site.”

    When I check the status of my SSL certificate using sslshopper.com, it indicates that my SSL is active. However, when I attempt to access my website using https://, I encounter an issue where I see “Index of/ name Last modified Size Description” and a blank page.

    I can still access my website’s admin panel using https://, and I’ve noticed that both the “Site Address” and “WordPress Address” settings are currently set to https://.

    Could you please advise on the next steps? Should I update the “Site Address” and “WordPress Address” settings to “https://” instead of https:// ?

    Thank you for your assistance.

    Kind regards

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  • Plugin Support jarnovos

    (@jarnovos)

    Hi @gosilver01,

    Going by your description of the behavior it seems that you already have a valid SSL certificate, but that you hadn’t clicked the Activate SSL button in the Really Simple SSL plugin yet; so that the plugin can make the necessary changes for the site to work over HTTPS.

    That’s where I would start, click the Activate SSL button in the Really Simple SSL Dashboard for the plugin to perform the necessary actions to enforce SSL/HTTPS on your site.

    Kind regards, Jarno

    Thread Starter gosilver01

    (@gosilver01)

    I clicked that button, Activate SSL, but it says I need to install manually.

    Plugin Support jarnovos

    (@jarnovos)

    Hi @gosilver01,

    I think that the issue with regards to the ‘directory browsing’ appearing when you visit the site over SSL is related to a symbolic link issue. You might have to change a setting in your web hosting control panel for that to work (or ask your Hosting Provider to do this for you), like the one mentioned in this article (https://really-simple-ssl.com/to-change-this-page-upload-a-new-index-html-to-your-private_html-folder/).

    After addressing this so that the site is reachable over SSL/HTTPS, you should be able to proceed with activating SSL in the plugin as well.

    Kind regards, Jarno

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