{"id":1440,"date":"2020-06-07T03:18:31","date_gmt":"2020-06-06T19:18:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.wesbytes.com\/guide\/?post_type=kb&#038;p=1440"},"modified":"2026-01-05T16:25:03","modified_gmt":"2026-01-05T08:25:03","slug":"why-am-i-getting-an-invalid-host_key-error-message","status":"publish","type":"kb","link":"https:\/\/www.servergigabit.com\/guide\/kb\/why-am-i-getting-an-invalid-host_key-error-message","title":{"rendered":"Why am I getting an invalid HOST_KEY error message?"},"content":{"rendered":"<h4><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone\" src=\"https:\/\/user-images.githubusercontent.com\/4318452\/55874768-a2bb1300-5b93-11e9-8889-4f2db5298c7f.png\" alt=\"invalid\u00a0HOST_KEY\" width=\"447\" height=\"156\" \/><\/h4>\n<h4>Why am I getting an invalid\u00a0HOST_KEY\u00a0error message?<\/h4>\n<p>You would get this invalid<a href=\"https:\/\/www.ssh.com\/ssh\/host-key\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\"> HOST_KEY<\/a> error\u00a0message if you were trying to use the API key from your Cloudflare account as your Hosting API key. If you do not have a Hosting API key, please <a href=\"https:\/\/www.servergigabit.com\/\">contact us<\/a> to request one.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Why am I getting an invalid\u00a0HOST_KEY\u00a0error message? You would get this invalid HOST_KEY error\u00a0message if you were trying to use the API key from your Cloudflare account as your Hosting API key. If you do not have a Hosting API key, please contact us to request one.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"kbtopic":[43],"kbtag":[1485,1484],"class_list":["post-1440","kb","type-kb","status-publish","hentry","kbtopic-cloudflare","kbtag-error-message","kbtag-host_key"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.servergigabit.com\/guide\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/kb\/1440","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.servergigabit.com\/guide\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/kb"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.servergigabit.com\/guide\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/kb"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.servergigabit.com\/guide\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.servergigabit.com\/guide\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1440"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.servergigabit.com\/guide\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/kb\/1440\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4925,"href":"https:\/\/www.servergigabit.com\/guide\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/kb\/1440\/revisions\/4925"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.servergigabit.com\/guide\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1440"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"kbtopic","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.servergigabit.com\/guide\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/kbtopic?post=1440"},{"taxonomy":"kbtag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.servergigabit.com\/guide\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/kbtag?post=1440"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}