Hi there, We noticed that we were unable to get an SSL cert issued when Cloudflare proxies traffic to our fly.io app instance. However, if we turn the proxy off, the cert gets issued successfully. I’m curious to know how this would affect the cert renewal process. Would we have to manually renew ce…

You are right - using their proxy means the certificate won’t be issued and/or won’t be renewed. Since the DNS returned value will be Cloudflare’s, not Fly’s, and so fail the validation. Hence why it does work when the proxy is off (grey cloud). Since then the returned value is Fly’s. So your choic…

Unable to get SSL cert issued with Cloudflare proxy

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ignoramous May 3, 2022, 4:07pm 4

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Unable to get SSL cert issued with Cloudflare proxy

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