(Obsolete) Install Paid SSL with Cloudflare on Discourse

[Nam_Nguyen]

I installed paid SSL, and follow very very careful this article

Allow SSL / HTTPS for your Discourse Docker setup

This guide is likely out of date as there are now very few reasons not to use the built-in Let’s Encrypt certificate that Just Works. See also: 2023-04-10 @pfaffman says: This is left here mostly for historical purposes. So you’d like to enable SSL for your Docker-based Discourse setup? Let’s do it! This guide assumes you used all the standard install defaults – a container configuration file at/var/discourse/containers/app.yml and Discourse docker is installed at: /var/discourse Buy a SS…

But after I installed, I cannot access to my discourse, I had install and rebuid discouse again, again and again, eventhough, I re-install my VPS I’m really stupid. I forgot that I use Cloudflare DNS.

Cloudflare SSL default is Flexible. >>> then I Turn to Full Strict

Then I can access to my Discourse

I think this small tip that can be useful for a newbie guy with cloudflare, paid ssl, discourse like me, to a avoid simple mistake.

P/s: Sorry, I’m not really good with English

[erlend_sh (Erlend Sogge Heggen)]

Thanks for sharing! But maybe you could incorporate this in here as another “NOTE” at the bottom?

Force Discourse to use SSL/HTTPS through CloudFlare

How to use CloudFlare’s platform to force all traffic over HTTPS connection using page rules. This is an up to date and user-friendly (fool-proof) way that I use each time and it works perfectly. Sign up to CloudFlare here - they offer SSL/HTTPS on their Free plan, so that will be just fine for us. Add your site here - the system will scan for DNS records, make sure all are correct and add any records not picked automatically by the scan i.e. MX records. You will the have to add the CloudFl…

[Nam_Nguyen]

I forgot one thing, while setup, use Cloudflare DNS only,

Here is the result I forgot it,

What the hell is Common Name (CN) and Validity is only 6 months.

I don’t know why this is happend?