: Cloudflare SSL with Godaddy domain I transferred my site's nameservers to cloudflare in order to get SSL, but it isn't working. At first I got the error: 526, but then I changed the setting
I transferred my site's nameservers to cloudflare in order to get SSL, but it isn't working. At first I got the error: 526, but then I changed the setting from Full SSL (strict) to just Full SSL. Once I did that though, when I changed the URL to HTTPS while googling it, it just gives the default message for godaddy that is usually shown when the site isn't there ("future home of something quite cool"). It gave the same message when I changed the SSL setting to flexible. I rechecked my settings, cloudflare says I have an active certificate, and HSTS is on. Any help would be greatly appreciated.
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Cloudflare is not a webhost, they are a CDN, DNS, DDoS protection, Web Security Provider.
If you are using Cloudflare you are still required to have a separate web host for your website. Cloudflare will act as a middle man in between your web server and your users, this way your users would connect to cloudflare and Cloudflare will fetch the content from your server and then relay this back to the end user.
This allows Cloudflare to mitigate a multitude of DDoS attacked as well as filter out any bad requests so that they do not reach your web server. Cloudflare will also cache your static files so that they can be served via the Cloudflare CDN.
Additionally using the Cloudflare DNS service will allow your users to resolve the Cloudflare edge servers IP addresses faster since DNS queries will be sent to the Cloudflare server closest to the user.
Since SSL certificates are only valid for the domains they were created for, in order to get SSL working with Cloudflare you will have to purchase an SSL certificate for your domain name separately and then upload this certificate inside the Cloudflare control panel for your site. Cloudflare will then use this certificate when serving content for your site.
If you have altered or removed the content from your GoDaddy hosting this might be the reason why you are seeing the default GoDaddy page. Since that is the response Cloudflare is seeing while trying to access your real content.
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