You only need to save the changes after you pasted those lines inside your .htaccess file; there is no need to download the file after you saved it and then upload it again. Oh, and make sure that the fourth line doesn’t have any space in between the quotes and the colon, so that line at the end will look like this:
RewriteCond %{HTTP:CF-Visitor} !{"scheme":"https"}
@lkaratak Hi and welcome to the forum! Glad to help you with what I’m posting there!
I"m going to have to go back to the file and put the contents from the article in there once again. I forgot to press the “Save” button before I closed the browser and turned off my computer.
I was just checking it on my Android phone when I got in my bed and content from the article was not there. I"ll correct it tomorrow.
OK, take your time, but don’t forget to install the SSL certificate as I checked through HTTPS and got a SSL protocol error before you force HTTPS!
I had already installed it. I don"t know why I keep getting the “Not Secure” message in the upper left corner of my website.
Only issuing the SSL certificate doesn’t mean it is installed; you can always install it on your hosting account with one click when the SSL issuer validated the DNS records successfully after you requested it through the “Free SSL Certificate” section of the Client Area. You’re still seeing the “not secure” message because your website accepts connections with HTTP only, and not HTTPS, and it’s gonna be secure once you installed the certificate and forced your visitors to use HTTPS.
Okay. I went through that process, I clicked on “Free SSL Certificate” and followed the instructions to getting a free certificate. Should I do it again?
I will also need to go back to the .htaccess file and put in the contents from that article. As I mentioned, I did it but closed my browser before saving it. I will do that later today.
After you see the record is propagated on that page, you can request the certificate (if you wanna go back to your certificate’s DNS status page click on the last SSL certificate record for your domain inside the “Free SSL Certificates” section of the Control Panel). Then refresh the page every once in a while until you see the install button, and click on it, and after you’ve done that you can save the .htaccess file with the changes you made! I’m sorry for the late reply, but I was playing a game.
JxstErg1,
I clicked on “Free SSL Certificate” and it shows the status as “Draft.” However, when I clicked on my domain name, (shown under the word "DOMAIN) I’m sent to a page where there is message in orange telling me that the account must be active to install CNAME records.
The certificate cannot be installed because the account is not active.
I then clicked on my username for my account. ( epiz_34350933) And now I found out why the account is not active. It has been temporarily suspended! It has to do with the hit limit. I went over or above the hit limit.
The message then says my account will be reactivated automatically in 8 hours from now. I don’t want to wait 8 hours from now!
The message then mentions iFastNet to migrate my website quickly and for free, even if my account is suspended.
There’s no way that you can speed up reactivation.If you really don’t want to wait for another 8 hours,as it said,upgrade to premium.
However getting premium doesn’t activate your infinityfree account,it gives you a new premium account at iFastNet.See
for more information.
That’s alright! I’ll wait the 8 hours. I can still have clients contact me through advertisements using my phone number and email address. But I need to know how I can help prevent my account from being suspended again.
To prevent this you can use cloudflare.Take these as reference:
Keep in mind that if you really have A LOT OF customers,cloudflare can’t help that much.But normally it will work.
Do I have to wait for my account with InfinityFree to be reactivated again before I could add my website to Cloudflare?
I don’t think so.You can always add those records in cloudflare as long as your domain is pointing to cloudflare nameservers,while you can always change the ns since you own the domain.
Can you check with someone just to make sure and get back with me, please?
You might just try it as I was finding no clue for this(Neither here or the CF forum).
Anyway this process is painless,free,and you can revert it at any time.If it doesn’t work,just wait that 8h and then retry.
No need
I still need to go back to the .htaccess file that I created and put in the contents from that article you showed me. I’ll do that later today before I add my website to Cloudflare.
No need to modify .htaccess if you are using full-mode SSL on CloudFlare
I did not know. Thanks for telling me. Just to confirm, I only need to change the nameservers to my website on the Cloudflare website. I keep the nameservers to my website on the InfinityFree website. Am I correct?
No, you need to change it on your domain registrar
