subdomain stopped working today

[phradham]

Subdomain stopped working today and it has this message "Your domain should start working in about X hours or mins"

account dhammadh in tommy

ww2.templeframework.com
root /ww2.templeframework.com

[wolstech]

Please clear your cache. The domain is working for me.

 

[phradham]

It seems the issue was caused by a change I made in Cloudflare. Around that time, the site stopped working. I changed the SSL mode from "Flexible" to "Strict," and then something happened with the SSL certificates.

After I fixed the certificate issue, I ended up with one version of the website on HTTP and a different version on HTTPS. It was the first time that had happened to me.

 

Edited April 19 by phradham
grammar

[wolstech]

Strict mode is a known issue. The recommended settings are Full (but not strict).

Plaske is unable to issue certificates when strict mode is enabled because Lets Encrypt requires a plain HTTP connection to verify the domain. This is especially problematic when the current certificate is already expired, or is missing, as Cloudflare will block all traffic to the site if the certificate is invalid, including plain HTTP. Some features such as "keep domain secured" will not function properly with strict mode enabled.

[phradham]

Thanks for the info. Now I understand the reason, I will read more about the modes as I didn't know how this gonna affect all the SSL certificates in the subdomains I created.

I was trying to use some Wordpress plugins to use it as a Static Site Generator, but the Cloudflare/SSL settings I had got in the way.