Apex domain as custom domain not working even though my zone is a Cloudflare zone
I have the following pages which works right now:
https://ibd-guide.pages.dev/
I added the custom domain ibd.guide which I purchased from Porkbun but use Cloudflare nameservers. It created a CNAME record for @ to point to ibd-guide.pages.dev but the custom domains page says Inactive (Error) and https://ibd.guide can't be found.
I've tried it with the proxy enabled and disabled. My zone's SSL/TLS is set to Full (strict).
In DNS > Settings > DNSSec, it says: Success! ibd.guide is protected with DNSSEC.
I feel like I've done everything right. What's wrong?
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I added the custom domain ibd.guide which I purchased from Porkbun but use Cloudflare nameservers. It created a CNAME record for @ to point to ibd-guide.pages.dev but the custom domains page says Inactive (Error) and https://ibd.guide can't be found.It'll make the record for you when you add the Custom Domain under the Pages Project, you don't need to do anything else
IBD Guide - Welcome
Everything you need to know about IBD
that website works for me though, did the status change?
WHAT! so it's just my PC?!
"can't be found" is just DNS Cache
well shoot.
yea, you tried to visit it before the dns record was propogated and now have local/resolver cache
Thank you so much, Chaika. I guess this is resolved now! My next question is out of scope, but do you know? I am trying to clear DNS cache in Firefox in macOS but it's not working. I go to
about:networking#dns and click Clear DNS Cache but nothing happens.
I open a new tab, and my domain still gets the same error
This is wild. I even did "forget about this site" and it's still not working
solved. It's NextDNS blocking it for some reason
Thanks a lot!
because of new domain or something? weird
"Newly registered domain"
makes sense
I whitelisted it, and it works locally in FF now
ps. If you want www to work you'd want to either add it as another custom domain under Pages Project or redirect it
My idea: manually add CNAME record from www to ibd.guide. Or I could point it to ibd-guide.pages.dev. I don't know if it matters.
neither will work unless you add it under the Pages Custom Domain tab
Ahhh interesting
the Pages Custom Domain tab is basically a host header whitelist
and if you add it from there, it'll add the record for you
Oh wow, that's odd
I found a forum post from Feb 23 that suggested that it will always say Inactive (error) on the apex domain, even though it actually works
It appears to be working, but you may have cached the old DNS records
This has been solved now. I don't know how to mark it as solved.
Marked it for you
Thanks!
that cert failed to issue, that's why
you can see the www has a specific www cert, but the root just has the wildcard universal
it doesn't really matter though as the universal covers it anyway
Oh okay! I guess I won't worry about it then