How to get free Let's Encrypt SSL for your website

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Since InfinityFree is a very popular free hosting, it needed to enforce some limits to block bad bots and hackers. However, this system is also blocking some good bots like the LE bots, and therefore you cannot get such a certificate there.
https://infinityfree.net/support/cannot-use-or-have-problems-using-lets-encrypt-or-sslforfreecom/

However, @Ranakhas found a workaround:
https://forum.infinityfree.com/discussion/2951/how-to-get-ssl-even-on-subdomains

Since we saw that new users were still having a hard time using it, we created this video in case anyone has trouble following that guide.

We hope this works for you!

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@ChrisPAR said:
Since InfinityFree is a very popular free hosting, it needed to enforce some limits to block bad bots and hackers. However, this system is also blocking some good bots like the LE bots, and therefore you cannot get such a certificate there.
https://infinityfree.net/support/cannot-use-or-have-problems-using-lets-encrypt-or-sslforfreecom/

However, @Ranakhas found a workaround:
https://forum.infinityfree.com/discussion/2951/how-to-get-ssl-even-on-subdomains

Since we saw that new users were still having a hard time using it, we created this video in case anyone has trouble following that guide.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=l0Q1CiJWvo8

We hope this works for you!

An Article to help more if needed
https://techub.pw/blog/get-free-ssl-with-free-hosting/

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I think you can use a TLD and enable cloudflare ssl. (I actually have no way to get free ssl for subdomains)

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@yezhiyi said:
I think you can use a TLD and enable cloudflare ssl. (I actually have no way to get free ssl for subdomains)

Of course you can use a TLD!
Subdomains aren’t allowed, only TLD or gccTLD or any other primary domains.

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You can have SSL for subdomains if you’ll use cloudflare manually, not via integration panel.

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@yezhiyi said:
I think you can use a TLD and enable cloudflare ssl. (I actually have no way to get free ssl for subdomains)

we use a free domain by Freenom with .ga TLD.
there is a difference b/w Domain, Subdomain and Top Level Domain.

@MrJunior said:
You can have SSL for subdomains if you’ll use cloudflare manually, not via integration panel.

will not work for rf.gd and epizy.com

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@Ranakhas yes it’s won’t work for subdomains provided by hosting.

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