Domain CNAME pointing to Zero trust tunnel gives error: This site can’t provide a secure connection
Hello,
I am trying to redirect a domain to my Cloudflare tunnel's domain via a CNAME record.
I have a Zero Trust tunnel running on localhost. On a different domain I added a CNAME record that point to my tunnel's URL, but when I try to access it I get the error: This site can’t provide a secure connection error.
The situation: my localhost is accessible trough
sub.example.com
and it works fine. other.domain.com
points to sub.example.com. Accessing other.domain.com
should redirect me to sub.example.com
(where my localhost is).
I have an Universal SSL certificate on the domain and the SSL/TLS encryption mode is Full (strict).
Summarized:
Accessing sub.example.com
works fine. This is the domain configured on Cloudflare.
Another domain other.domain.com
points to sub.example.com
, but it gives the mentioned error.
Both domains are purchased from Namecheap, but and the main one uses Cloudflare's nameservers.
I would really appreciate any help, because at this point I have no idea what is causing this to happen.
I believe it has something to do with the SSL certificate, but I have a Universal SLL certificate on the whole domain and its subdomains2 Replies
Well, the purpose of my app is to actually issue SSL certificates for any domain pointing to
example.com
🥲
Thank you, yes that might solve this issue. But I was trying to implement that logic in my application. Which means that my app would issue the SSL certificates via Let's Encrypt
, because I also do domain ownership verification. Cloudflare SaaS also has hostname limitations
Is this because Cloudflare has its own reverse proxy, and I would need to implement my own in this situation?
Thank you so much for helping me!
Might it not work if I disabled SSL certificate handling on Cloudflare completely?
And I would manage the certificates on my side
Got it, thanks