When I changed my Nameservers to Cloudflare my website stopped working
I tried to switch to cloudflare twice and imported my DNS records but both times my website stopped working so had to switch back my nameservers
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What's the domain
And have you switched back to cf nameservers?
No I needed it to work so I went back to my softlayer nameservers as I am hosted at IBM who bought Softlayer
I cant switch now I need it to work and I also have to go out , maybe can try tomorrow again but I am scared as twice now when I did switch to CF it didnt work ,
so will u be around tomorrow I coudl try again
yes
Do u think changing Flexible to Full on SSL could fix it ? seems strange as the error in the browser was too many redirects
yes
the reason flexible hits that is because flexible is http to origin not https
which means your origin triggers a http -> https redirect
which goes to the eyeball... which is already using https
and then infinite loops
full/ full (strict) use https to origin
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you want ssl full strict
then onboard to cf and it should just work
cant do full strict cos you need enterprise for that canonly do full
the htaccess file on my server will redirect any http to https
so will just strict work cos I cant do full strict
I dont know if u still there but I just changed it now
seems to be working at the moment and nslookup doesnt get my IP so must be going thru CF
I think changing it to full helped thank you very much for your help
Now I have another issue I am struggling to get into my admin sectionof the website
I restrict access by IP at my office in IIS and somehow I think CF is messing with my domain and it prevents me getting in but I can get into other sites admin also restricted the same way
its trying to connect by hostname and it doesnt resolve to the correct IP
so now I cannot adminster my site and do work 😦 unless I remove the security
I have a rule that changes all non www to add the www so I cant even use the IP address except for FTP but when I try to get into the admin section thats we programmed into the site I have to remove the IP security block
it is obviously password restricted but with the IP restriction as well makes it more secure
the whole reasonm I went with CF was to block certain states and I have a rule to do that but it is still allowing people from those states
I dont know how to tell if the blocking rule I set is working would that fall under the mitigated category in security overview ?