InfinityFree SSL panel shows: “(no CNAME found) — Not Ready”.
The required _acme-challenge CNAME record is configured in Cloudflare with DNS only, and its destination matches the value provided by InfinityFree. However, the record is not detected.
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My domain is managed by Cloudflare, and I have verified that the CNAME record matches the destination shown in the InfinityFree SSL panel. The record is set to DNS only (grey cloud). I have also checked the DNS configuration, but InfinityFree still reports “no CNAME found”. Please help me troubleshoot the DNS validation issue. I do not want to change the other DNS records because they are used by my main website and email.
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What’s the exact name of the record in Cloudflare, as it shows in your DNS list? Since the certificate is for blog.paolasolarinsights.com, the name should end in .blog, so _acme-challenge.blog. A bare _acme-challenge sits on the main domain, so the check for the blog subdomain wouldn’t find it.
The article on creating the CNAME records covers this for subdomains. Its example puts the subdomain in the record name, for instance _acme-challenge.www.blog on example.com.
The article also says it can take a few hours for the panel to detect a new record. So if you added it recently and the name already includes .blog, how long ago did you add it?