{"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":"2025-08-27T07:02:29","modified_gmt":"2025-08-27T07:02:29","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 class=\"no-margin\">Universal SSL is essential for your website to work with HTTPS when you don&rsquo;t have a valid SSL certificate yet. In the majority of cases, it&rsquo;s recommended to keep Universal SSL enabled. However, sometimes you may need to restart the Universal SSL to solve some certificate-related issues.<\/p><p class=\"no-margin\">\n<\/p><p class=\"no-margin\">If you have <a href=\"\/support\/4741545-how-to-use-cloudflare\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"intercom-content-link\">enabled Cloudflare<\/a> for your domain, you can manage Universal SSL from the Cloudflare Dashboard:<\/p><p class=\"no-margin\">\n<\/p><ol>\n<li>\n<p class=\"no-margin\">Log into <b><a href=\"https:\/\/dash.cloudflare.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"intercom-content-link\" 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<p class=\"no-margin\">\n<\/p><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<p class=\"no-margin\">\n<\/p><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\">\n<\/p><p class=\"no-margin\"><b>Additional Resources<\/b><\/p><ul>\n<li>\n<p class=\"no-margin\"><a href=\"https:\/\/developers.cloudflare.com\/ssl\/edge-certificates\/universal-ssl\/enable-universal-ssl\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"intercom-content-link\" rel=\"noopener\">Enable Cloudflare Universal SSL certificates <\/a><\/p>\n<\/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-PT","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---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":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.hostinger.com\/support\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/945\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3833,"href":"https:\/\/www.hostinger.com\/support\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/945\/revisions\/3833"}],"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}]}}