Title: Activating Jetpack get HTTP error 403
Last modified: November 25, 2020

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# Activating Jetpack get HTTP error 403

 *  Resolved [johnymac](https://wordpress.org/support/users/johnymac/)
 * (@johnymac)
 * [5 years, 10 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/activating-jetpack-get-http-error-403-2/)
 * Monday I have migrated from one host to a new host. The migration has gone well
   however, I can not activate my jetpack. Every time I click the activate button
   I receive a “HTTP error 403”.
 * Thinking it might be my firewall I contacted Cloudflare my provider of that service.
   They sent me directions to do WAY over my head and a message that said something
   to the tune, “CF and jetpack should be an issue.”
 * So for kicks and giggles I deactivated WordFence to see if that was an issue.
   Let the deactivation to take affect and tried to activate my jetpack. Same thing
   error 403.
 * So then I deleted the jet pack and reinstalled it and the same thing happens.
 * I contacted my new host, and they do not have any idea why it was not working
   and sent me the same CF article that CF sent me. The biggest issue of the article
   is that the steps do not match up with my version of CF which was just installed
   about a month ago. I guess I could just pause CF but why should I have to do 
   that and risk an attack.
 * I figured that someone else has had to of had this issue in the past I did search
   for the error and fix but to no avail that did not involve writing code. I am
   64-years old and just helping a friend manage the WordPress part of his site.
 * There must be an easy fix for this.
 * Thank you,
    JohnyMac
 * The page I need help with: _[[log in](https://login.wordpress.org/?redirect_to=https%3A%2F%2Fwordpress.org%2Fsupport%2Ftopic%2Factivating-jetpack-get-http-error-403-2%2F%3Foutput_format%3Dmd&locale=en_US)
   to see the link]_

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 *  Plugin Contributor [Dan (a11n)](https://wordpress.org/support/users/drawmyface/)
 * (@drawmyface)
 * [5 years, 10 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/activating-jetpack-get-http-error-403-2/#post-13711785)
 * Hi there
 * Can you try pausing Cloudflare temporarily just to determine whether that is 
   in fact preventing the connection or not?
 * These two articles should help:
 * [https://support.cloudflare.com/hc/en-us/articles/218377098-WordPress-Jetpack-and-Cloudflare](https://support.cloudflare.com/hc/en-us/articles/218377098-WordPress-Jetpack-and-Cloudflare)
 * [https://jetpack.com/support/getting-started-with-jetpack/configure-jetpack-cloudflare/](https://jetpack.com/support/getting-started-with-jetpack/configure-jetpack-cloudflare/)
 * Let us know what you find.
 *  Thread Starter [johnymac](https://wordpress.org/support/users/johnymac/)
 * (@johnymac)
 * [5 years, 10 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/activating-jetpack-get-http-error-403-2/#post-13717763)
 * Thank you. I paused cloudflare and tried to activate our Jetpack and I received
   the following error. This might clear up the problem. Thoughts?
 * Error Details
    cURL error 60: SSL certificate problem: self signed certificate
 *  Thread Starter [johnymac](https://wordpress.org/support/users/johnymac/)
 * (@johnymac)
 * [5 years, 10 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/activating-jetpack-get-http-error-403-2/#post-13717875)
 * Up date:
 * As reported above, I paused CF tried to activate then got the error message. 
   Well, I just enabled CF and for kicks and giggles I clicked jetpack activation
   one more time – Kind of a hail Mary pass – AND viola, jetpack activated.
 * Thank you for all of your help.
    JohnyMac

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