Receiving the error message “This hostname is not covered by a certificate.” on the A records pointed to DreamHost. Cloudflare is the registrar for both of these sites. I have other sites that are registered through Cloudflare and hosted on Dreamhost that do not have this issue.
What steps have you taken to resolve the issue?
Tried removing the site from Cloudflare temporarily to re-add it and hopefully reset it to fix this certificate error.
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?
This issue originally happened on ghw.photography while ghwphotography.com was being redirected through a page rule to the ghw.photography URL. I hoped that in the meantime I could use ghwphotography.com so I removed the redirect page rule, but the same error is happening.
If it is enabled, disable it, wait a few minutes, then enable it again to see if that fixes it. Only do that once so rate limits don’t stop the certificate being issued.
Oop, didn’t see the bottom half of that message. I disabled the Universal SSL and waiting a couple minutes to re-enable it. Thanks; I’ll update if that fixed the issue
Note also that ssh and ftp need to be set to “DNS only” and not “Proxied” if you use those services. You can also delete the NS records for the apex domain as they don’t do anything.
Thanks for the tip. I’ll fix the ssh and ftp A records to be DNS only. Not sure where the NS record for the apex domain is, I only have the three nameservers that DreamHost says to use.
Re-enabling the Universal SSL didn’t seem to fix the issue. When it was off, it looked like the error was gone, but when I turned it back on, that same error message returned.
I was able to at least restore service to all the effected sites by disabling Cloudflare. Would still love to know of a solution so I can use their CDN and proxy services.
