AutoSSL did not renew The validation required 1 HTTP redirect

[AngryAlpaca]

Hi cPanelers,

I recently set up a new Wordpress site for a client on a new Hosting account. Everything was going well for about a month, up until we received this email:

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AutoSSL did not renew the certificate for “”. You must take action to keep this site secure.


The validation required 1 HTTP redirect, but the AutoSSL provider “cPanel (powered by Comodo)” does not permit HTTP redirects. When the system accessed the “/.well-known/pki-validation/06947935ADBECF0D9.txt” URL, it redirected to the /0694794C90D98E916E659.txt”[/URL] URL.

We use Cloudflare, and I suspect that the AutoSSL isn’t playing very well with it. Cloudflare settings:

Our Security Level: Medium
SSL: Full
Always use HTTPS: Off

What's the best way to go about fixing this?

 

[AngryAlpaca]

Also- I do have an .htaccess file with the following content:


# BEGIN WordPress
<IfModule mod_rewrite.c>
RewriteEngine On
RewriteBase /
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_URI} !^/[0-9]+\..+\.cpaneldcv$
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_URI} !^/\.well-known/pki-validation/[A-F0-9]{32}\.txt(?:\ Comodo\ DCV)?$
RewriteRule ^index\.php$ - [L]
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-f
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-d
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_URI} !^/[0-9]+\..+\.cpaneldcv$
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_URI} !^/\.well-known/pki-validation/[A-F0-9]{32}\.txt(?:\ Comodo\ DCV)?$
RewriteRule . /index.php [L]
</IfModule>
# END WordPress

Not sure if this is causing any issues- let me know what you all think.

 

[cPanelMichael]

Hello,

It's possible you have a redirect enabled directly through CloudFlare. You could try temporarily disabling CloudFlare to verify if it's the culprit.

Thank you.

 

[AngryAlpaca]

Hello,

It's possible you have a redirect enabled directly through CloudFlare. You could try temporarily disabling CloudFlare to verify if it's the culprit.

Thank you.

I see. Any idea where in the Cloudflare interface I might be able to find the redirects that could be causing the issue? I do have some DNS entries in my Cloudflare account that are set to DNS and HTTP proxy (/imgur.com/xCx0Ynf). I'm guessing that I need to change those clouds from orange to gray to set them to DNS only?

 

[AngryAlpaca]

Also- I've verified that 'Always redirect to HTTPS' has been turned OFF. It has been off the whole time (I do the redirect via .htacess file)