Cloudflare, DNS, Byethost, SSL.

I want to check in Cloudflare where is my naked domain (without www.) pointed but I can’t do that because of:

DNS Records

Your DNS zone file is hosted by Byethost, a Cloudflare partner. Changes to your DNS settings must be made through the Byethost website

I don’t have Byethost account, I don’t know how to create one either.

All I want to do is redirect somehow my naked domain to www. because the www. is secured (green lock icon, “this site is safe”) unlike the naked one. Another similar option is to have both naked and www. sites secured.

When i used “Redirects” section in cPanel and I redirected naked domain to www., it showed blank page “Redirection loop, clear browser cookies…” - didn’t help.

Thanks for helping!

  1. If you want to manage DNS on your own - you can disable Cloudflare integration panel and change the nameservers to Cloudflare manually, that makes you responsible for all the DNS.
  2. Byethost and InfinityFree both powered by iFastNet, that’s why it’s kinda same things.
  3. I don’t know why your original domain have no SSL, but you’d better to post the URL so I can check it.
  4. www subdomain is configured automatically on this hosting, I’m not sure which way hosting uses, but it might me rewrite url rule/redirect that makes you facing redirection loop.

Cloudflare secures both the www and non-www URLs. If that’s not the case for you yet, please just wait for your browser cache to expire.

You can still set up redirects from non-www to www and http to https in whatever way you want: https://infinityfree.net/support/how-to-force-all-traffic-to-https/ Note that the Redirects tool cannot be used for this (it can only be used to redirect to other websites).

@MrJunior said:

  1. If you want to manage DNS on your own - you can disable Cloudflare integration panel and change the nameservers to Cloudflare manually, that makes you responsible for all the DNS.
  2. Byethost and InfinityFree both powered by iFastNet, that’s why it’s kinda same things.
  3. I don’t know why your original domain have no SSL, but you’d better to post the URL so I can check it.
  4. www subdomain is configured automatically on this hosting, I’m not sure which way hosting uses, but it might me rewrite url rule/redirect that makes you facing redirection loop.

1 - didn’t help
3 - tell me how can you check it
4 - i have no rules added to “page rules” section in cloudflare.

@Admin said:
Cloudflare secures both the www and non-www URLs. If that’s not the case for you yet, please just wait for your browser cache to expire.

You can still set up redirects from non-www to www and http to https in whatever way you want: https://infinityfree.net/support/how-to-force-all-traffic-to-https/ Note that the Redirects tool cannot be used for this (it can only be used to redirect to other websites).

1 - but it’s not working both on mobile devices and pc’s. The lock is only shown on the www. site even if I refresh all of my browser’s data including cache.

1 - if you wanted to manage DNS — it just couldn’t doesn’t help you
3 - by looking at the certificate details, checking the dev tools info, etc?
4 - I didn’t talk about cloudflare, but InfinityFree instead

So how am I supposed to manage DNS then?

Now the problem is more complicated, because SSL works only on PC. When I enter my site using a smartphone like now, I connect to http not https even if in Cloudflare I enabled “Allow HTTPS rewrite” option.

UPDATE: SSL(green lock) works on smartphone but only in chrome incognito mode. In normal mode it’s still not working.

@reveur said:
UPDATE: SSL(green lock) works on smartphone but only in chrome incognito mode. In normal mode it’s still not working.

Yes, because of browser cache. Please note that purging cache in most browsers does not clear SSL certificate cache. So you just need to wait for it to expire.

@Admin said:

@reveur said:
UPDATE: SSL(green lock) works on smartphone but only in chrome incognito mode. In normal mode it’s still not working.

Yes, because of browser cache. Please note that purging cache in most browsers does not clear SSL certificate cache. So you just need to wait for it to expire.

I tried on my friend’s devices and this is still non-secured even if they’ve never been my page before. How long does it take to see the changes?

Maybe you messed up things with the mixed content or something just like that? Provide a URL eventually…

@reveur said:

@Admin said:

@reveur said:
UPDATE: SSL(green lock) works on smartphone but only in chrome incognito mode. In normal mode it’s still not working.

Yes, because of browser cache. Please note that purging cache in most browsers does not clear SSL certificate cache. So you just need to wait for it to expire.

I tried on my friend’s devices and this is still non-secured even if they’ve never been my page before. How long does it take to see the changes?

I could check your website at my end.
Provide your domain please.

Also regarding your question about how you can manage your DNS.
You can’t manage your DNS on Cloudflare if you use the VP integration (VistaPanel cloudflare integration) here.
But you can manage your DNS on Cloudflare when you use Cloudflare directly and pointing your nameservers to them.
Also you are responsible for all your DNS, if you got error when using Cloudflare directly, then it’s up to your responsibility m

Ok so I had to wait 24h and now SSL works everywhere, but this is not the end…

In .htaccess file I inserted code that redirects naked domain to www, but when I don’t have this code inserted I still don’t have an SSL on my naked domain. Is there any solution for this or should I use this code in .htaccess?

Are you sure you’re redirecting to ‘https’ not ‘http’?

It’s automatically changing to http, like the https doesn’t exist without www. prefix.

It can be done automatically, check your htaccess rules or anything else that can do it

Ok so everything what I had to do was to wait. Free SSL plan on Cloudflare was setting itself for over 48 hours.

Problem solved, thanks to everyone who helped me.