Question
HTTPS Error 521, Universal SSL Cloudflare
- Posted on March 7, 2016
- DigitalOceanConfiguration ManagementApacheSecurityGetting Started
Asked by KerchTorres
I have free Universal SSL with CloudFlare. I wanted to set up a permanent SSL redirect on my website. I change A-name to IP my droplet on digitalocean and when i try to use https-protocol i get error: 521 (ssl handshake filed) and loop
I think, that is necessary to change standart settings in configuration apache2, but what to change and where?
Previously, I used shared hosting by godaddy and never encountered this problem. Please help me!
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Just adding a new answer here: when you by pass the https request on the node balancer, add the origin certificate to the load balancer, and make sure it’s selected. That way, you can still use strict CF connections.
Hope this helps.
problem solved! Change SSL = full to Flexible
I had the same issue, I noticed that my SSL was on “Full”, but my server doesn’t support SSL, so I changed it to Flexible (e.g. USER <SSL> CF <PLAIN> SERVER)
If you require FULL SSL, you should make sure that your SSL works even without CF through https://www.ssllabs.com/ssltest/