Cloudflare Proxy + Webflow 525 Let's Encrypt SSL Error

What is the name of the domain?

Custom domain

What is the error number?

525

What is the error message?

SSL Handshake failed

What is the issue you’re encountering

SSL failed after 30 days

What steps have you taken to resolve the issue?

Had to switch

Was the site working with SSL prior to adding it to Cloudflare?

Yes

What is the current SSL/TLS setting?

Full (strict)

What are the steps to reproduce the issue?

Site was working correctly and then today showed 525 error. Changed site DNS details from Proxied to DNS only so the cert could regenerate and turned on the proxy again which got the site working again.

Had a custom page rule like this:

./.well-known/acme-challenge/
SSL: Off

Which I thought would exclude the SSL handshake from Webflow.

Is there anything else I would need to do or is it due to how Webflow generates/validates the SSL certificate.

Can you show a screenshot of the Page Rule? Likely the leading dot before the first slash is the reason it doesn’t match if that’s what you have entered.

Apologies looked like some of the text was omitted and I can’t edit it.

Here is the screenshot:

If the certificate is to cover the apex domain, the URL should be *example.com/.... (removing the dot after the first *) otherwise it will only work for subdomains.

I see. The site is hosted using www.example.com and the apex domain redirects to there.

The reason for the above rule is that we also have separate sub domains with Webflow and they also broke today. So if the above rule should have covered the subdomain, it does not seem it worked.

I’ve tried to curl the following https URLs with those page rules in place (now supporting apex domain as well). Is this the response I should be seeing?

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