Cloudflare Pages doesn't work with custom domain (on cloudflare)

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Hi, I’ve got an issue with cloudflare pages and using a custom domain.

My setup is:

  1. Namecheap is my registrar.
  2. I made a cloudflare zone and used all of the defaults. (I added it yesterday and deleted it and added it again today). It uses dorthy.ns.cloudflare.com and quinton.ns.cloudflare.com.
  3. I made a cloudflare page, that works just fine accessed directly.
    text-extractors-test.pages.dev
  4. The page doesn’t work at all when accessed via the domain https://textextractors.com/ (which is setup via CNAME to the cloudflare zone).

But when I try to go to the website, it just fails it. I can’t access it on multiple browsers, my cell phone (not on network). I’ve tried reseting local DNS and I’m just out of options and don’t know what to configure.

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When I navigate to the website on my cell phone, this is what I get.

But this makes no sense, it’s fully managed by cloudflare and uses cloudflare pages. What do I have to set to get this to work?

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Hi,

A custom domain doesn’t work on a CNAME alone, you need to go the Pages project settings and add the domain under the Custom Domains tab.

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The issue was that my DNS was cached on my local router, and therefore wasn’t working correctly. I set my machine’s DNS to 8.8.8.8 and now it works.

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