How to add SSL for domain of namecheap

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Hello everyone,

I can link the domain to an IPFS hash following this tutorial Link a domain | IPFS Docs but could not add a SSL certificate on it (I bought the SSL and followed the instruction here https://www.namecheap.com/support/knowledgebase/article.aspx/9840/67/how-do-i-activate-a-multidomain-ssl-certificate/ but it didn’t work.

Thank you!!

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Unfortunately, you can’t do that with the gateway.ipfs.io. However, you CAN use SSL with Cloudflare’s gateway:

https://developers.cloudflare.com/distributed-web/ipfs-gateway/connecting-website

Bascially, just swap gateway.ipfs.io with cloudflare-ipfs.com then follow the instructions at https://developers.cloudflare.com/distributed-web/ipfs-gateway/connecting-website#make-it-all-secure.

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Thanks for your instruction, it works well. But do you know how to redirect HTTP to HTTPS? Both protocols work but HTTP isn’t redirected to HTTPS.

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You probabably have to use a meta redirect:

https://www.w3.org/TR/WCAG20-TECHS/H76.html

Otherwise, you’d need to convince cloudflare to add it as an option.

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