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How to get a custom domain to work on Blogger with SSL

May 7, 2018 2:28:00 PM / by Vu Long Tran posted in web development, cloudflare, cybersecurity, blogging, blogger, ssl

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For those trying to proxy your traffic through Cloudflare and are also using Blogger.com/ Blogspot.com to host your website you may find some issues with the HTTPS redirects and general loading of your HTTPS on your website.

This follows some of the posts that I have seen on the Cloudflare Community page on "Custom domain with blogger not working".

I recommend setting up the redirect on Cloudflare.com, so that Cloudflare's edge locations will do the redirecting effort, rather than you needing the visitor to send a request back to your origin as part of the redirect work.

So here's a few things that I did to have this work.
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How to sign up for a free domain name with Freenom

Feb 7, 2018 10:31:00 PM / by Vu Long Tran

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Freenom is currently offering domain names for the first year.

They're a domain name registrar which means that they allow you to buy and manage domain names off their marketplace.

While it is only specific domain names alias on offer, it's still a great deal for those looking to create temporary testing websites or get their foot online without spending any money first. Please do read their terms and ensure it meets your needs.

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