Custom domain stuck at VALIDATING_OWNERSHIP - apex, Cloudflare DNS-only
sdeja5200
HOBBYOP

21 days ago

Root domain seenfirst.online on a Hobby project has been stuck at

CERTIFICATE_STATUS_TYPE_VALIDATING_OWNERSHIP with verified: false for over

an hour, across two full delete-and-re-add cycles. errorMessage is null.

DNS is confirmed correct: Cloudflare, DNS-only (grey cloud), CNAME flattened

at apex to the Railway target, and both resolve to the same edge IP. The ACME

challenge path over HTTP is answered by railway-edge with a 404, so the validation path reaches Railway. Railway reports the DNS record as PROPAGATED.

Requests to the domain over HTTPS return x-railway-fallback: true, so the edge isn't routing the host to the service. A subdomain on the same service issues certificates without any problem.

Domain ID: 08e1fdf2-87c0-4222-a4f2-b9c2ba97b561

Solved

1 Replies

Railway
BOT

21 days ago

The HTTP challenge path reaches our edge, so the traffic record is working. The ownership verification TXT record is what's missing. Add a TXT record with the host _railway-verify and the value railway-verify=be88bda7bfa56e1f4262522b9c83f8cf268bab787f15c12a0874f2cd02e4d8ca in your Cloudflare DNS. Once it propagates, verification and certificate issuance will resume automatically.


Status changed to Awaiting User Response Railway • 21 days ago


Railway
BOT

14 days ago

This thread has been marked as solved automatically due to a lack of recent activity. Please re-open this thread or create a new one if you require further assistance. Thank you!

Status changed to Solved Railway • 14 days ago


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