Custom domain cert stuck at CERTIFICATE_STATUS_TYPE_VALIDATING_OWNERSHIP for hours
brextonpham
HOBBYOP

a month ago

Two custom domains have been stuck at CERTIFICATE_STATUS_TYPE_VALIDATING_OWNERSHIP

for several hours and never progress to ISSUED.

Project: newmark-nla

Project ID: 362a0072-fabb-4d81-b274-2a2d21be6c92

Environment: production

Domains:

- app.newmarkai.com → service: nla-dashboard

- api.newmarkai.com → service: nla-api

What I've verified:

- DNS CNAMEs are correct (both resolve to *.up.railway.app, then Fastly)

- HTTP-01 challenge path is reachable on port 80 (returns 404 for unknown tokens,

as expected)

- letsdebug.net HTTP-01 test returns ok: true for app.newmarkai.com

- Tried deleting and re-adding the domains multiple times — status immediately

returns to VALIDATING_OWNERSHIP but never flips to ISSUED

Has anyone seen this? Is there a way to manually trigger the cert provisioner,

or is this a known Railway infrastructure issue?

Solved$10 Bounty

Pinned Solution

Your CNAME records should be set to what Railway has provided when you added a custom domain in networking settings. They should not be set to the generated public URLs.

Additionally, you need to add TXT records to your domains for the validation to go through.

1 Replies

Status changed to Open Railway about 1 month ago


Your CNAME records should be set to what Railway has provided when you added a custom domain in networking settings. They should not be set to the generated public URLs.

Additionally, you need to add TXT records to your domains for the validation to go through.


Status changed to Solved brody about 1 month ago


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