Cloudflare is an impressive service/platform for securing and speeding-up websites.
If you use Cloudflare and have a “status page with a custom-domain” in Uptime Robot, “there may be a small configuration needed” to make sure things work smooth.
Who needs the custom configuration?
If the 3 items below match your case, then the custom config is needed:
- Use Cloudflare as your domain’s DNS provider
- Have a status page with custom domain in Uptime Robot
- Have the “Crypto” setting as “Flexible” in Cloudflare
How to make the custom config?
That is so easy:
- Login to your Cloudflare account
- Click the domain of your status page
- Click “Page Rules>Create Page Rule”
- Enter *MyStatusPageCustomDomain* (like *status.mydomain.com*) into “If the URL matches” field
- Click “Add Setting>SSL>Full”
- Click “Save and Deploy”
- That’s it.
And, here is a screenshot of the setting:
Thank you!!
I tried to connect it last week and it did not work out, and here is your article ❤️
We have Full SSL setup but still see a SSL Handshake error in our status page through Cloudflare. Any ideas?
Any issues must be clarified now.
I’m still getting the Handshake Failed error from Cloudflare. Tried Full and Strict page rules for the status.domain.com
Great work guys!
I did this but i’m gettin an error, it says “Error 525: SSL handshake failed”, any ideas on how to solve this?
here comes the solution !
Tried this last night my crypto is set to Full for all my domains on my account, CNAME is in place tested it this morning and get Error 525 SSL Handshake failed.
Please Advise.
07/06/18
Hi still having trouble. What should we be putting down as “status”
Thanks
I fixed this by simply bypassing the CloudFlare proxy for the status.tsugicloud.org subdomain. This reveals the real IP address of stats.uptimerobot.com – but it saves a page rule – which might cost you money.