Title: Issues with implementing plugin
Last modified: October 20, 2016

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# Issues with implementing plugin

 *  [franwess](https://wordpress.org/support/users/franwess/)
 * (@franwess)
 * [9 years, 7 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/issues-with-implementing-plugin/)
 * Hi there,
 * We have a site where we have implemented Cloudflare by pointing our domain’s 
   DNS at Cloudflare (as it should be)
 * Disabling Cloudflare Flexible SSL from the Cloudflare Control Panel results in
   a 403 Forbidden error when trying to access the WP Dashboard. Website loads normally.
   We are hosted on Nginx (EasyEngine).
 * Enabling Flexible SSL together with installing the Flexible SSL plugin ([https://wordpress.org/plugins/cloudflare-flexible-ssl/](https://wordpress.org/plugins/cloudflare-flexible-ssl/))
   and forcing Cloudflare via page rule to always load the site via SSL breaks the
   front end of the site and loads the WP Dashboard as normal over SSL.
 * Can you maybe assist?
 * Kind regards
    Francois Wessels

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 *  Thread Starter [franwess](https://wordpress.org/support/users/franwess/)
 * (@franwess)
 * [9 years, 7 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/issues-with-implementing-plugin/#post-8334380)
 * Just as an update, we have now tested and we also get a 403 Forbidden error when
   trying to access the WP Dashboard with Flexible SSL/Page Rule enabled…
 * Any thoughts will be highly appreciated.
 * Kind regards
    Francois Wessels
 *  Plugin Author [Paul](https://wordpress.org/support/users/paultgoodchild/)
 * (@paultgoodchild)
 * [9 years, 7 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/issues-with-implementing-plugin/#post-8334394)
 * Did you follow the guide outlined here:
    [https://www.icontrolwp.com/blog/enabling-cloudflares-universal-flexible-ssl-wordpress-without-infinite-redirect-loops/](https://www.icontrolwp.com/blog/enabling-cloudflares-universal-flexible-ssl-wordpress-without-infinite-redirect-loops/)
 *  Thread Starter [franwess](https://wordpress.org/support/users/franwess/)
 * (@franwess)
 * [9 years, 7 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/issues-with-implementing-plugin/#post-8334526)
 * Hi Paul,
 * Yes, what is odd is that as soon as I enable Redis the error occurs. We have 
   another site with exactly the same configuration on the same server which works
   perfectly.
 * On that site your plugin is not even installed and it still works…
 * Any thoughts?
 * Kind regards
    Francois Wessels
 *  Plugin Author [Paul](https://wordpress.org/support/users/paultgoodchild/)
 * (@paultgoodchild)
 * [9 years, 7 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/issues-with-implementing-plugin/#post-8334542)
 * No idea. There’s a setting somewhere that’s messing with it. How you have flexible
   SSL working on another site without some sort of adaption of the protocol, I 
   don’t know. You’ll need to go through the sites very carefully to work out what
   all is different both in WordPress settings, WordPress wp-config.php, WordPress
   plugins, CloudFlare settings: SSL, page rules. WRite it all out if you have to.
 *  Thread Starter [franwess](https://wordpress.org/support/users/franwess/)
 * (@franwess)
 * [9 years, 7 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/issues-with-implementing-plugin/#post-8334570)
 * Thank you, we will have to check properly.
 * Kind regards
    Francois Wessels
 *  [rothkj1022](https://wordpress.org/support/users/rothkj1022/)
 * (@rothkj1022)
 * [9 years ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/issues-with-implementing-plugin/#post-9086831)
 * Franwess,
 * I am having almost exactly the same issue. Were you able to resolve this? If 
   so, what was causing the problem and how did you fix it? Thanks,
 * Kevin
 *  [rothkj1022](https://wordpress.org/support/users/rothkj1022/)
 * (@rothkj1022)
 * [9 years ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/issues-with-implementing-plugin/#post-9086855)
 * Could it be that since I have mod_cloudflare installed on my server that I do
   not need this plugin?

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 * [Flexible SSL for CloudFlare](https://wordpress.org/plugins/cloudflare-flexible-ssl/)
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 * 7 replies
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 * Last reply from: [rothkj1022](https://wordpress.org/support/users/rothkj1022/)
 * Last activity: [9 years ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/issues-with-implementing-plugin/#post-9086855)
 * Status: not resolved