Godaddy - VPS - installing a SSL secure certificate from Cloudflare

Question

I have followed every tutorial to the letter to install a SSL (secure lock) on my website, using cloudflare.

One tutorial: https://caweem.com/blog/how-to-install-cloudflare-ssl-on-godaddy/

I have the site as an ADDON site/domain on a VPS on Godaddy.

Cloudflare reports that the site is active and is being "covered". Simiarly, when I manually installed the SSL certificate and GoDaddy confirmed that the SSL was installed correctly.

Yet, when I go to the URL, there is no SSL (no security lock)

has anyone else experienced issues with installing CLOUDFLARE (SSL) on VPS GoDaddy sites?

Any helpful tutorials or fixes?

Answer 1

If you're using Virtual Hosts or Apache2 then you may need to configure the virtual host or the standard Apache2 config file to reroute traffic via HTTPS.

Also noteworthy is ensuring HTTPS traffic is allowed by your VPS firewall.

sudo ufw allow 'Apache Full'

I know you've said you're using Cloudflare but this Digital Ocean article/series of articles is a very useful resource: https://www.digitalocean.com/community/tutorials/how-to-secure-apache-with-let-s-encrypt-on-ubuntu-18-04

It covers using Certbot but similar principles can be used for setting up SSL and virtual hosts with other providers.