{"id":945,"date":"2022-06-13T07:55:52","date_gmt":"2022-06-13T07:55:52","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blog.hostinger.io\/support\/2022\/06\/13\/6299503-troubleshooting-cloudflare-universal-ssl-at-hostinger\/"},"modified":"2026-08-10T04:32:03","modified_gmt":"2026-08-10T04:32:03","slug":"6299503-troubleshooting-cloudflare-universal-ssl-at-hostinger","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.hostinger.com\/support\/6299503-troubleshooting-cloudflare-universal-ssl-at-hostinger\/","title":{"rendered":"Troubleshooting Cloudflare Universal SSL at Hostinger"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Troubleshoot Cloudflare Universal SSL at Hostinger by disabling and re-enabling it to resolve certificate-related issues. Universal SSL lets your website work with HTTPS when you don&rsquo;t yet have a valid SSL certificate, and in most cases, it&rsquo;s best kept enabled &mdash; but restarting it can help solve certain certificate problems.<\/p><h3>Before you start<\/h3><ul>\n<li>Make sure <a data-click-id=\"hgr-post-content-link-youve-enabled-cloudflare\" href=\"https:\/\/www.hostinger.com\/support\/4741545-how-to-use-cloudflare-in-hostinger\/\">you&rsquo;ve enabled Cloudflare<\/a> for your domain.<\/li>\n<\/ul><h2 id=\"h-restart-universal-ssl\">Restart Universal SSL<\/h2><p class=\"no-margin\">You can manage Universal SSL from the Cloudflare Dashboard:<\/p><ol>\n<li>\n<p class=\"no-margin\">Log into <b><a data-click-id=\"hgr-post-content-link-cloudflare\" class=\"intercom-content-link\" href=\"https:\/\/dash.cloudflare.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Cloudflare<\/a> <\/b>and click on the domain in question. Then, in the left menu, choose <b>SSL\/TLS<\/b> &rarr; <b>Edge Certificates<\/b>:<\/p>\n<div class=\"intercom-container intercom-align-center\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/blog.hostinger.io\/pt\/support\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/59\/2023\/07\/56516958-02cb-4c85-8219-2c7230829437.jpg\" alt=\"The Edge Certificates option in Cloudflare\" width=\"350\"><\/div>\n<\/li>\n<li>\n<p class=\"no-margin\">Scroll down to the <b>Disable Universal SSL section<\/b> and click on <b>Disable Universal SSL<\/b>:<\/p>\n<div class=\"intercom-container intercom-align-center\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/blog.hostinger.io\/pt\/support\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/59\/2023\/07\/bfb8fdd4-b58b-486e-a375-b9a956f14c61.jpg\" alt=\"The Disable Universal SSL button\" width=\"600\"><\/div>\n<\/li>\n<li>\n<p class=\"no-margin\">Wait for a minute and then enable it once again by clicking on <b>Enable Universal SSL<\/b>:<\/p>\n<\/li>\n<\/ol><div class=\"intercom-container intercom-align-center\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/blog.hostinger.io\/pt\/support\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/59\/2023\/07\/cc975e96-7f31-44b7-a710-f0ee7db0d71b.jpg\" alt=\"The Enable Universal SSL button\" width=\"600\"><\/div><p class=\"no-margin\">That&rsquo;s it! Your Universal SSL should be working correctly.<\/p><p class=\"no-margin\"><b>Additional resources<\/b><\/p><ul>\n<li>\n<p class=\"no-margin\"><a data-click-id=\"hgr-post-content-link-enable-cloudflare-universal-ssl-certificates\" class=\"intercom-content-link\" href=\"https:\/\/developers.cloudflare.com\/ssl\/edge-certificates\/universal-ssl\/enable-universal-ssl\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Enable Cloudflare Universal SSL certificates<\/a><\/p>\n<\/li>\n<li><a data-click-id=\"hgr-post-content-link-how-to-fix-connection-not-secure-or-not-private-errors-at-ho\" href=\"https:\/\/www.hostinger.com\/support\/1583317-how-to-fix-not-secure-or-not-private-connection-errors-at-hostinger\/\">How to fix connection not secure or not private errors at Hostinger<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Enabling and disabling Universal SSL via the Cloudflare Dashboard<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":581,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"include_on_kodee":true,"footnotes":""},"categories":[215],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-945","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-ssl-troubleshooting"],"hreflangs":[{"locale":"en-US","link":"https:\/\/www.hostinger.com\/support\/6299503-troubleshooting-cloudflare-universal-ssl-at-hostinger","default":1},{"locale":"fr-FR","link":"https:\/\/www.hostinger.com\/fr\/support\/6299503-comment-gerer-cloudflare-universal-ssl-at-hostinger","default":0},{"locale":"id-ID","link":"https:\/\/www.hostinger.com\/id\/support\/6299503-bagaimana-cara-mengelola-universal-ssl-cloudflare-di-hostinger","default":0},{"locale":"pt-BR","link":"https:\/\/www.hostinger.com\/br\/support\/6299503-como-gerenciar-cloudflare-universal-ssl-at-hostinger","default":0},{"locale":"uk-UA","link":"https:\/\/www.hostinger.com\/ua\/support\/6299503-\u0443\u0441\u0443\u043d\u0435\u043d\u043d\u044f-\u043d\u0435\u0441\u043f\u0440\u0430\u0432\u043d\u043e\u0441\u0442\u0435\u0439-cloudflare-universal-ssl","default":0}],"include_on_kodee":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hostinger.com\/support\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/945","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hostinger.com\/support\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hostinger.com\/support\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hostinger.com\/support\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/581"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hostinger.com\/support\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=945"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.hostinger.com\/support\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/945\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":14939,"href":"https:\/\/www.hostinger.com\/support\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/945\/revisions\/14939"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hostinger.com\/support\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=945"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hostinger.com\/support\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=945"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hostinger.com\/support\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=945"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}