Cloudfare offers a free SSL certificate that enables a website publisher to host content using the https protocol on a website.
It also allows a blogger blog which has a custom domain to upgrade to https.
What are the advantages of https?
- Websites are more secure
- Google assigns a higher ranking to https websites
- Websites are faster
How to install Cloudfare certificates?
In order to install the Cloudfare SSL certificate so that all content is served via https, a website owner needs to change the DNS nameservers to that provided by Cloudfare as below:
The best thing is that existing MX, A, TXT records are backed up and nothing gets deleted.
You then need to enable SSL in the Crypto tab in Cloudflare console:
As soon as you enable this option, the website will be served via HTTPS protocol. Users will see a lock option in the address bar as below:
You can easily force all mixed content to be served via https using the below setting:
The advantage is that if a website owner has uploaded an image which was served by http and is now available on https, Cloudflare detects this and automatically serves such content via https.
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