# Wildcard Certificate Showing Awaiting Certificate

**URL:** <https://community.fly.io/t/wildcard-certificate-showing-awaiting-certificate/26339>\
**Category:** General\
**Tags:** certificates, login-only\
**Created:** [October 29, 2025, 5:29pm UTC](https://community.fly.io/t/wildcard-certificate-showing-awaiting-certificate/26339 "2025-10-29T17:29:15Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 6\
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**Author:** ![elbin](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/fly1/user_avatar/community.fly.io/elbin/32/43255_2.png) [@elbin](https://community.fly.io/u/elbin)\
**Post date:** [October 29, 2025, 5:29pm UTC](https://community.fly.io/t/wildcard-certificate-showing-awaiting-certificate/26339/1 "2025-10-29T17:29:15Z")

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The wildcard certificate is stuck in the dashboard with status “Awaiting certificates”, even though the DNS challenge is publicly resolvable.

DNS challenge is present and resolvable, but the wildcard issuance request appears to be stuck or not completed on Fly’s side (possibly a cached/previous failed validation). The root cert was issued, so DNS and Cloudflare configuration look correct.

Can Anyone help in resolving the same. Thankyou

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**Author:** ![lillian](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/fly1/user_avatar/community.fly.io/lillian/32/49616_2.png) [@lillian](https://community.fly.io/u/lillian)\
**Post date:** [October 29, 2025, 5:34pm UTC](https://community.fly.io/t/wildcard-certificate-showing-awaiting-certificate/26339/2 "2025-10-29T17:34:05Z")

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Make sure your DNS record for `www.<yourdomain>.com` is pointing to the IPv6 and not the IPv4 of your app. I can’t check as it’s behind Cloudflare, but from the errors we can see on our end it seems like your apex domain is pointed to the v6 and the www subdomain is pointed to the v4.

[https://fly.io/docs/networking/understanding-cloudflare/#cdn-proxy-setup-quot-orange-cloud-quot](https://fly.io/docs/networking/understanding-cloudflare/#cdn-proxy-setup-quot-orange-cloud-quot)

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**Author:** ![lillian](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/fly1/user_avatar/community.fly.io/lillian/32/49616_2.png) [@lillian](https://community.fly.io/u/lillian)\
**Post date:** [October 29, 2025, 5:43pm UTC](https://community.fly.io/t/wildcard-certificate-showing-awaiting-certificate/26339/3 "2025-10-29T17:43:47Z")

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ah, sorry, I missed this was about your _wildcard_ certificate. 🤔 I see all the wildcard certificates on your account as correctly validated. which certificate are you having trouble with? (you can email me at `email redacted` if you don’t want to post it publicly)

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**Author:** ![lillian](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/fly1/user_avatar/community.fly.io/lillian/32/49616_2.png) [@lillian](https://community.fly.io/u/lillian)\
**Post date:** [October 30, 2025, 2:22pm UTC](https://community.fly.io/t/wildcard-certificate-showing-awaiting-certificate/26339/4 "2025-10-30T14:22:54Z")

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@elbin just saw your email. looks like cloudflare is overwriting your acme-challenge:

```auto
nixie:~$ dig +short txt _acme-challenge.yourdomain.com
"IBz4Vg[...]
"zyyVjD[...]"
nixie:~$ dig +short cname _acme-challenge.yourdomain.com
yourdomain.com.redacted.flydns.net.
nixie:~$ dig +short txt yourdomain.com.redacted.flydns.net.
"ynFw46I[...]"

```

see [Understanding Cloudflare · Fly Docs](https://fly.io/docs/networking/understanding-cloudflare/) for more details on this behaviour.

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**Author:** ![elbin](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/fly1/user_avatar/community.fly.io/elbin/32/43255_2.png) [@elbin](https://community.fly.io/u/elbin)\
**Post date:** [November 1, 2025, 11:09am UTC](https://community.fly.io/t/wildcard-certificate-showing-awaiting-certificate/26339/5 "2025-11-01T11:09:02Z")

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Hi Lillian

I tried as per the document but it still not working. Can you please help me to resolve this issue.

Regards  
Elbin

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**Author:** ![system](https://global.discourse-cdn.com/fly1/original/3X/6/e/6e8955d00cb218e186ebbe3a6ab06fefdce15290.svg) [@system](https://community.fly.io/u/system)\
**Post date:** [November 8, 2025, 11:09am UTC](https://community.fly.io/t/wildcard-certificate-showing-awaiting-certificate/26339/6 "2025-11-08T11:09:22Z")

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