DNS_PROBE_FINISHED_NXDOMAIN help!

[mitchell1]

Hi,
I’ve been having trouble with this one subdomain https://www.invoice.simplyelegantstyling.com.au/.
It returns a DNS_PROBE_FINISHED_NXDOMAIN, everything has been configured the same as the other subdomains which are working fine.

Any ideas?

[sdayman]

1. There’s just no DNS entry for ‘www.invoice’ Check the DNS settings page in your Cloudflare dashboard
2. Even if there were, without a dedicated SSL certificate with Custom Hostnames, you’ll get an SSL error.

Subdomain too deep

This tutorial covers a possible reason for the SSL_ERROR_NO_CYPHER_OVERLAP and ERR_SSL_VERSION_OR_CIPHER_MISMATCH errors (Firefox and Chrome respectively) when seen on a subdomain. The Cloudflare universal certificates cover example.com and *.example.com. This means that it covers any subdomain one level below the domain you signed up with. It will cover www.example.com and subdomain.example.com, as these are one level below the root domain, example.com. The certificate will not cover www.sub…

[mitchell1]

So I just uploaded the cloudflare SSL to my server, should that work?
I dont get this error on any other *simplyelegant.com.au domain…

[sdayman]

That Cloudflare Origin CA certificate is only recognized by Cloudflare. It can only be used on a hostname that is proxied () by Cloudflare.

Since invoice and www.invoice are not set to , that certificate will show as invalid. You can set invoice to and that will work, but www.invoice will not, as noted in the article I linked to earlier.