Help needed: Error code: ssl_error_inappropriate_fallback_alert

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  maicurls · Member · Mar 24, 2015 at 11:42 am

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  Hi I am hoping I can get help with my self hosted wordpress blog. It was working perfectly up until 3 days ago. All of a sudden I get this error message:

  An error occurred during a connection to maicurls.wordpress.com. The server rejected the handshake because the client downgraded to a lower TLS version than the server supports. (Error code: ssl_error_inappropriate_fallback_alert).

  I am using Google Chrome. Windows 8 x64bit operating system. I really need help please :D

  The blog I need help with is: (visible only to logged in users)

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  staff-ozmodiar · Staff · Mar 24, 2015 at 7:30 pm

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  I’m sorry to hear that you are having trouble. However, your site is a self-hosted WordPress.org blog, which we really can’t help with.

  To clear up any confusion, WordPress.com and WordPress.org are two different entities: http://support.wordpress.com/com-vs-org/

  WordPress.org has complete documentation and support sites for self-hosted/installed versions of WordPress.org at http://codex.wordpress.org/ and http://wordpress.org/support/

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  maicurls · Member · Mar 24, 2015 at 10:10 pm

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  Thank you for pointing me in the right direction :D

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  staff-ozmodiar · Staff · Mar 25, 2015 at 1:50 am

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  Hope you get it sorted out!

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  maicurls · Member · Mar 25, 2015 at 6:18 am

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  Rootjsh funny story. I posted my question in the other forum and got told:

  You’ll need to ask on the WordPress.COM forums here:
  https://en.forums.wordpress.com/
  These forums are for self-hosted WordPress.ORG sites – not the same but often confusing.

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  staff-ozmodiar · Staff · Mar 25, 2015 at 5:10 pm

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  Hrm….

  Well, perhaps there was some confusion on one of our ends. You asked about a self hosted site, but then mention https://maicurls.wordpress.com/.

  Is https://maicurls.wordpress.com/ the site you are having trouble sith?

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  maicurls · Member · Mar 26, 2015 at 6:08 pm

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  Rootjosh I think I myself am confused lol. I have “sort of” fixed it. I had to uncheck a few Internet settings which kind of helped it…it takes me a few tries and clicks to log on but I manage at some point. I don’t know what exactly is wrong but “kind of working” is better than not working at all. :)

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  staff-ozmodiar · Staff · Mar 27, 2015 at 7:05 am

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  Okay. Well good to hear.

  Feel free to post again if you are having trouble with a WordPress.com site in the future.