Activate Free Cloudflare Flexible SSL for Websites and Blogs

In this Tutorial, we are going to see the Method to Setup & Activate Free Cloudflare Flexible SSL certificate & Force HTTPS Redirection Setup.

If you are not Having a Cloudflare Account Just Open a Free Account & Set up a Cloudflare for your blog/website.

Features in Cloudflare Free Plan

• Free DNS
• Free SSL (Shared – Wildcard SSL)
• HTTP/2
• HSTS (HTTP Security Headers)
• Speed Optimization
• Caching
• Firewall
• Custom Page Rules
• Traffic Analytics
• Apps

Steps to Activate Free Cloudflare Flexible SSL

• Login to your Cloudflare account
• Goto Crypto

• In SSL Choose “Flexible” SSL
• It takes some Time to Install & Activate the Free Cloudflare Flexible SSL

Force HTTPS redirection

• Next Scroll down the page you can see the option “Always use HTTPS” Just Enable that option it will Force redirect your blog/website into HTTS

• Enable HTTP Strict Transport Security (HSTS) – HTTP Secure headers

What is HSTS? Clearly Explained by KeyCDN – Hardening Your HTTP Security Headers

Here is My HSTS Setup on Cloudflare

Fix SSL Mixed Content

• Again scroll down the page & Enable “Automatic HTTPS Rewrites” It will Help us to fix mixed content

• That’s all Successfully we setup Cloudflare flexible SSL for our Blog/website

Cloudflare Custom Page Rules

Custom Page Rules System it’s Like an HTACCESS Rewrite Rule System.

Note: It allows Max 3 Custom page Rules only If you want More you can Buy Additional Rules from Cloudflare

WWW to NON-WWW

NON-WWW to WWW

From the Editor’s desk

Hope this tutorial will Help you to Setup Free Cloudflare SSL for your Websites & Blogs.If you have any doubts on this Topic Feel free to Comment Here I will Guide you.