Hosting Godaddy(Yes, I know) domain on cloudflare.. issues once activated.
I copied the same process I used for my current portfolio which is using a squarespace domain (was google when I bought it) and I thought it was working, but as you can see I'm getting the connection issue.
Now on my portfolio, I don't have any A, and my 2 CNAMES are callum-laing.com as the name, and the cloudflare pages site as the content. I tried doing the same for quackers but it wasn't letting me.
Anyone more experienced with this able to help, please? or... if it makes things easier, is anyone experienced in moving a domain from godaddy elsewhere? happy to do so also if it makes this process easier.
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as much as I always say that it's always a DNS issue, I don't think this is a DNS issue.
I don't have any experience with Cloudflare, but they have a help page for this error: https://developers.cloudflare.com/ssl/troubleshooting/version-cipher-mismatch/
Cloudflare Docs
Fix VERSION_OR_CIPHER_MISMATCH · Cloudflare SSL/TLS docs
Learn how to troubleshoot ERR_SSL_VERSION_OR_CIPHER_MISMATCH when using Cloudflare SSL/TLS.
One thing they say is "This error occurs when your domain or subdomain is not covered by an SSL/TLS certificate". A HTTPS certificate has a domainname it's valid for baked in, which is made when the certificate is generated. They can have multiple names, but some don't. For the purposes of HTTPS,
www.wildlyquackers.co.uk and wildlyquackers.co.uk are not the sameWhen I run a check on the certificate using https://www.sslshopper.com/SSL-CHECKER.HTML#hostname=wildlyquackers.co.uk, it says SSL isn't configured, which would explain the error in your browser too.
SSL Checker
Use our fast SSL Checker will help you troubleshoot common SSL Certificate installation problems on your server including verifying that the correct certificate is installed, valid, and properly trusted.
just looking at SSL/TLS on cloudflare atm
again though, no experience with cloudflare, so it could just be that SSL is set up but there's something in how cloudflare identifies where to direct your traffic that's not sending it to the right place
(and that could theoretically be a DNS record. That whole no experience thing...)
haha yeah no problem, I just used cloudflare as I use it myself for my sites but not with godaddy
I wonder if this is the issue
could be. I think you may have to add a specific TXT record to the domain to verify you own it and want to make the certificate
ill wait for this to validate, and go from there with regard to your last message
My assumption was incorrect. This didn't fix the issue 😄
yeah this is on you 100%
this be the fix.
knew it
dumbass
I basically had this 😄
which would be fine if it was github pages
absolute pepega man
but... a lesson learned. 😄