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Petras
Asked: 2020-10-09 17:13:59 +0800 CST

How to get Cloudflare SSL to work with IIS website on Azure virtual machine

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I have an Azure virtual machine running IIS. The DNS goes through Cloudflare and I have turned SSL on there. However, when I visit https://www.reainvite.com.au I get "This site can’t be reachedwww.reainvite.com.au took too long to respond."

Below is a video covering all my setup

https://youtu.be/vi7ksa7Y8Qc

Can anyone let me know what to do?

virtual-machines ssl azure cloudflare

1 Answers

  1. Best Answer

    You are selecting Full End-to-End encryption for your Cloudflare setup.

    This means Cloudflare is expecting to connect to an encrypted server, and proxy that connection to the end user. This means your back-end server, the IIS VM, needs a certificate installed, and needs to be bound to 443.

    If you do not want to, or cannot, install the cert on your VM, you cannot use Full end-to-end encryption, and will need to select Flexible e2e.

    This Cloudflare help article provides an overview of how E2E encryption works, and what is required to get things working.

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