Edge Certificate Renewal Error

[raqib.zaman]

So I go this email saying that I needed to Renew my SSL certificate for my website:

My domain name registrar is on ASmallOrange, and I contacted them about the CNAME, but they said to check with my hosting provider SiteGround. So I went to SiteGround & tried adding the CNAME overthere:

But when I tried to validate the CNAME, I still got an error message from Cloudflare. How do I fix this??

[Cyb3r-Jak3]

Check out this post

SSL Certificate renewal - ERROR

I believe this is due to the sites being on a partner integration or CNAME setup and not using Cloudflare DNS. That is why the certificates are for individual hostnames and not wildcards. If you already have a new certificate listed under SSL/TLS → Edge Certificates then you shouldn’t need to do anything. If the cert is getting to expiry and there is no new certificate issued then let us know if the instructions and links in the email are not working.

[raqib.zaman]

So does that mean I don’t need to do anything & let that certificate expire? This is what it shows on my Cloudflare account:

[sdayman]

Correct. That hostname is not proxied by Cloudflare, so there’s no need to validate it.

I suppose you could add that CNAME record just to see what happens. Again, there’s really nothing else you need to do.

[raqib.zaman]

Thank you so much! Last question, if this certificate is going to expire, then I can take that CNAME I added recently off of siteground right?

Much Obliged!!!

EDIT: It looks like adding the CNAME to siteground did something!