# SSL Certificate is invalid or missing intermediate (bundle) certificate
**URL:** https://forum.infinityfree.com/t/ssl-certificate-is-invalid-or-missing-intermediate-bundle-certificate/116466
**Category:** Hosting Support
**Created:** [November 9, 2025, 11:34am UTC](https://forum.infinityfree.com/t/ssl-certificate-is-invalid-or-missing-intermediate-bundle-certificate/116466 "2025-11-09T11:34:34Z")
**Posts on this page:** 4
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### Author:  [@Promptnova.AI](https://forum.infinityfree.com/u/Promptnova.AI)
#### Post date: [November 9, 2025, 11:34am UTC](https://forum.infinityfree.com/t/ssl-certificate-is-invalid-or-missing-intermediate-bundle-certificate/116466/1 "2025-11-09T11:34:34Z")
### Website URL
[https://promptnova.info](https://promptnova.info)
### Error Message
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**Invalid Intermediate**
You have an invalid or missing intermediate (bundle) certificate. This may not break your padlock on all browsers, but will on others. Please contact your SSL Vendor for assistance with this error.
### Other Information
Please help. Everything on my website is working correctly except the padlock does not show on my website. I have tried many troubleshooting solutions and arrived at this. ‘You have an invalid or missing intermediate (bundle) certificate. This may not break your padlock on all browsers, but will on others. Please contact your SSL Vendor for assistance with this error.’ Please help!
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### Author:  [@KangJL](https://forum.infinityfree.com/u/KangJL)
#### Post date: [November 9, 2025, 11:47am UTC](https://forum.infinityfree.com/t/ssl-certificate-is-invalid-or-missing-intermediate-bundle-certificate/116466/2 "2025-11-09T11:47:08Z")
Please read
> [@SSL checker shows "certificate not trusted" warning](https://forum.infinityfree.com/t/ssl-checker-shows-certificate-not-trusted-warning/49697/):
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> When you check your InfinityFree SSL certificate with online SSL checker tools, you might see a warning like this: The certificate is not trusted in all web browsers. You may need to install an Intermediate/chain certificate to link it to a trusted root certificate. This warning sounds scary, but it’s actually not a problem for your website visitors. What this warning means for your site You can safely ignore this warning. Your site will work perfectly fine with HTTPS for virtually all mode…
You can also use CloudFlare
> [@How to setup Full SSL with Cloudflare](https://forum.infinityfree.com/t/how-to-setup-full-ssl-with-cloudflare/60679/):
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> By default, Cloudflare uses a system called “Flexible SSL”. In this system, Cloudflare secures the connection between your visitors and Cloudflare, but not the connection between Cloudflare and your website. Not only is this less secure, some websites (notably WordPress) have trouble detecting whether HTTPS is in use, causing all sorts of issues. The best way to resolve this is by using Full SSL in Cloudflare. This way, the connection between Cloudflare and your website is encrypted, and your w…
Anyway there is no issue
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### Author:  [@Admin](https://forum.infinityfree.com/u/Admin)
#### Post date: [November 9, 2025, 8:09pm UTC](https://forum.infinityfree.com/t/ssl-certificate-is-invalid-or-missing-intermediate-bundle-certificate/116466/3 "2025-11-09T20:09:12Z")
Please make sure that you didn’t just install the SSL certificate, but are also enforcing its use:
> [@How to force all traffic to HTTPS](https://forum.infinityfree.com/t/how-to-force-all-traffic-to-https/49322):
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> After you’ve enabled SSL for your website, you’ll probably want to redirect all traffic on your website to the https version of your site. There are multiple ways to do that. Let’s compare some commonly used ways. Using script configuration Some scripts (including Wordpress) have a setting which allows you to set your website URL. By changing this URL from [http://example.com](http://example.com) to [https://example.com](https://example.com), the script will probably redirect visitors to the https version of your site. Even if your script…
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### Author:  [@system](https://forum.infinityfree.com/u/system)
#### Post date: [November 16, 2025, 8:09pm UTC](https://forum.infinityfree.com/t/ssl-certificate-is-invalid-or-missing-intermediate-bundle-certificate/116466/4 "2025-11-16T20:09:54Z")
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