I still have auto "?i=1" url extension despite having a custom domain from Cloudflare.com

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Website URL

cevap42 dot com

Issue

Dear admin,
I have a custom domain from Cloudflare.com. My website is working however I still have auto “?i=1” url extension despite having a custom domain from Cloudflare.com. I don’t want it even once after clearing the browser’s cache.

I have read lots of posts from this forum however I couldn’t solve my issue.

What I have done not to have it are:
#1- In the cloudflare dashboard, under “SSL/TLS > Edege Certificates” section, I turned on “Always Use HTTPS”. It is active.

#2- In the cloudflare dashboard, under “DNS > Records” section, I created type A record to point my IP address which made my site working.

#3- After still having “?i=1” url extension, I thought that "may be I should have a free SSL Certificate in my infinityfree dashboard. Then, I created a CNAME type DNS record for the certificate provider to verify that I am the owner of my domain (cevap42 dot com) however I have an error message which says “(no CNAME found) Conflicting TXT records were found.”.

#4- Additionally, my configuration of my SSL/TLS in cloudflare is “FULL” which is defined as “Enable encryption end-to-end. Use this mode when your origin server supports SSL certification but does not use a valid, publicly trusted certificate.”

May I please kindly ask your help not to have “?i=1” auto URL extension even after a cleared browser cache. I am not an expert. I just did these actions after reading the many posts in the forum without actually knowing what I am doing.

I attached images that may help you also.

Thanks in advance.
Kind regards.

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Read this thread

In short, this loophole was closed

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Hello @KangJL, thanks for your sharing. Unfortunately, I understood nothing after reading. As I have said I know nothing about DNS, domain management. May you describe me what to do in simple terms please. (I am not a native English speaker also.) Thanks, regards.

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Like I said

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In short, you can no longer use cloudflare to remove the ?i=1

This is a required part of the service now

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Thanks for your reply. Sorry to read this. Is there any official post from any admin for this info to confirm? Let me wait also an official answer as a last hope:) Again, thanks for your help in very clear & simple statement. I wasn’t able to understand the meaning of “his loophole was closed”.

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yes:

And a “loophole being closed” simply means that this method of getting around the security system no longer works

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Many thanks @dan3008. It is not good but something that can be lived with at least for a while. May I ask for a last help from your side? I want to use a free ssl certificate also however I had error message. How can I correct that message? please see the image also, it may help. My error was:

#3- After still having “?i=1” url extension, I thought that "may be I should have a free SSL Certificate in my infinityfree dashboard. Then, I created a CNAME type DNS record for the certificate provider to verify that I am the owner of my domain (cevap42 dot com) however I have an error message which says “(no CNAME found) Conflicting TXT records were found.”.

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Domains using Cloudflare tend to run into this issue because they also have to setup some records to issue SSL certificates for you. And they will conflict with our procedure.

That is to say, you shouldn’t need to setup anything. The default self-signed certificate is enough if you decide to use Cloudflare with the proxy turned on.

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