Cloudflare redirect loop?

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Hello!

We are experience what seems to be an error with Cloudflare after we enable it.

Is there any way this can be painlessly fixed ?

We are getting redirect loops on the website.
 
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Is your site wordpress by any chanse? If yes, you should disable or at least try to change SSL in cloudflare to flexible.
 
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Yes !
Will try as we speak.
Will post more if I still encounter this problem.I was annoyed with it but I hope it will go back to normal.
Seems like an easy fix.
Thank you.
 
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DenisMNE said:
Hello!

We are experience what seems to be an error with Cloudflare after we enable it.

Is there any way this can be painlessly fixed ?

We are getting redirect loops on the website.
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Redirect loops happen with Cloudflare when SSL is disabled or in flexible mode in Cloudflare and forced on your website by a .htaccess and your control panel, or the opposite, when SSL is forced by Cloudflare but not on your website. You have to enable or disable SSL on both of them.
 
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I got same problem when using flexible mode in Cloudflare. Why that causes an error when using SSL with Cloudflare? I see in Cloudflare it has full and full strict mode, what is the difference between them? which one should I use?
 
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Flexible mode provide the ability to use SSL on your website even if the origin web server do not support SSL/TLS. With this mode, data are only encrypted between the visitor web browser and Cloudflare servers.
But if there is a http to https redirection on your server, it will create a redirect loop because the Cloudflare servers do not expect a connection with SSL / TLS and they will still be redirected to an https address.
Redirect loop : HTTP -> HTTPS -> HTTP

That's why you have to use the mode full if your website is secured with a SSL Certificate (and you want to use https everywhere)
The full (strict) mode is the same than full, but require a valid SSL certificate signed by a Certificate Authorithy (it can be Let's Encrypt, Comodo, DigiCert etc...) when you can use a self-signed certificate with the mode full.

Here an image to explain each SSL mode :
ssl.png
 
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