SSL

[Thainarak]

Hi there,

I am trying to enable https for my website, as I understand, in order to have the ssl certificate from Weebly working correctly I need to switch off iPV6 from my current dns providers.

As it looks like in cloudflare the only way to disable iPV6 is through an api call, I am wondering if there is a way to do that in Weebly enviroinment.

Best regards

[Adam7 · Accepted solution]

If you are using cloudflare you will probably not be able to enable SSL even after removing the AAAA record, since our system will check to see what IP your domain points to and will find that it's not pointed to us. In order to enable SSL with us, your domain will need to be pointed to one of our IP addresses in addition to not having any AAAA records.

[Thainarak]

Thank you Adam, you saved me a lot of time and headaches with your answer

[Adam7]

You're welcome!

[Thainarak]

Hi again,

I have an update and thought to post it here.

I actually achieved to activate ssl in cloudflare just toggling a couple of functions and I now have both http and https versions working (apparentely and so far pretty well too).

Last problems I would need to overcome are robots.txt and sitemap.xml. As both (reasonably) point to http protocol only, indexing https version would generate more than some SEO problems (at least I believe so).

I was thinking about redirecting https version of sitemap to external resources, as I have read somewhere on Google forums that could work fine, but I am still uncertain about what to do for robots.txt as it will drive gbots to http version of sitemap anyway.

If someone can think of a creative solution I would be really grateful.

Best regards as always

[Bernadette3]

Hi @Thainarak Have you tried resubmitting the sitemap to Google? https://support.google.com/webmasters/answer/183668?hl=en

[Thainarak]

Hi Bernadette,

I can't index the https version as on the server side the website is on http only (the server even uses a 301 redirect to http).

Consequentially, although the website is accessible through https robots.txt and sitemap.xml will continue pointing at http protocol as ftom screenshots.

If I submitted https version for indexing I guess Google bots would keep seeing http version only or consider it broken.

Any idea about how to bypass this problem?

Best!

[Bernadette3]

Ah, sorry. I missed the Cloudflare part. You will need to enable the SSL through Weebly in order for this to work properly. I think Adam was helping you with this previously? 

[mytopagent]

I had SSL on my website but got a bot attack so went to cloudfair and bingo sorted. Now my issues are getting SSL to work again. Weebly is not very helpful at all on this issue. How did you get yours to work?
My site is working, but its not showing the padlock anymore. 
I have two sites: flymehigh.com and mytopagent.co.nz. 
I do have SSL working via Weebly and these are my settings.(below) however, I can't seem to find these settings anymore on CF?

These are my other settings on mytopagent website. (See below)

In cloudflare I have the SSL settings (as below) when I change it to NO SSL the site goes down, and likewise, when I change it FULL encryption it goes down. Flexible is the only one that works, but no SSL. 

Any help would be appreciated.

John
 

[Thainarak]

Hi John,

From that little I can see ssl is working properly on both of your sites and padlock is showing up.

You are probably using a browser with different settings but in chrome I can defibetively see the padlock, so I guess (and hope) you did it right.

Best!