Custom domain verification stuck during website migration
jasoneka
PROOP

2 months ago

Project: ae1a35af-5139-46a3-a206-f99b772968bd

The domain: sherpany.com

The TXT record is being verified: railway-verify=ad9cbdbc3fa393de049b70ede29daabb1ef1d2166abd57bdc9bd0182cdf80695

I tried to delete domain and re-add it again and got Error message: "Cannot delete custom domain: an operation is already in progress"

We are migrating website between providers so we needed to revert CNAME back to our old provider but we have left TXT record. How I can resolve it?

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jasoneka
PROOP

2 months ago

dig TXT _railway-verify.sherpany.com +short

"railway-verify=ad9cbdbc3fa393de049b70ede29daabb1ef1d2166abd57bdc9bd0182cdf80695"


jasoneka
PROOP

2 months ago

We are trying to add "railway-verify=..." record also under the root

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jasoneka
PROOP

2 months ago

this didn't help. We needed to revert and hopefully we will be able to try again soon after getting some help


Can you show exactly how your DNS is/was configured?


Also, if you wish to use your root domain @, you should also be using www.


jasoneka
PROOP

2 months ago

This is how TXT is configured.

Regarding "Also, if you wish to use your root domain

@

, you should also be using

www"

For www we did a simple CNAME change.

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For www we did a simple CNAME change.

Again, as mentioned above, if you wish to use www or @, you must include a CNAME record for the other domain record.


jasoneka
PROOP

2 months ago

sure thing, this is why TXT wasn't and still is not verified even though we have records in place?


jasoneka
PROOP

2 months ago

now the status has changed and it is being like that for a while. How we can get a support with that?

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2 months ago

You should just wait for it to complete.


jasoneka
PROOP

2 months ago

how long does it take usually? For us TXT record is there since yesterday and still looks like not verified


jasoneka
PROOP

2 months ago

cname - we had to remove cause we can't afford putting our live website down for so long


2 months ago

It's usually very quick, are you using cloudflare as a proxy?


jasoneka
PROOP

2 months ago

nope


sdesgardin
HOBBY

2 months ago

I waited something like 15h, it never ended. I destroyed the project without better results. A lot of people have this issue if you check the help section


2 months ago

I am having the same issue with my domain apwire.xyz, project apwire (ID:

6d9c53e4-ab4f-4b1b-9352-1443aa131f20) has a stuck TLS provisioning operation on domain ID ce7fb95d-6cfb-4239-9777-a58c028ab9a3. Need it force-deleted."


jasoneka
PROOP

2 months ago

is there a way to get Railway support at all? I opened also a thread on https://station.railway.com/questions/custom-domain-verification-stuck-7f8140a9 but no answer since almost 2 days :/


2 months ago

Your thread has already been escalated to the team, and this issue has been raised to the engineering team.


jasoneka
PROOP

2 months ago

thank you! I will wait then


chandrika
EMPLOYEE

2 months ago

Hey Jason, like Medim mentioned, I've raised this with the engineering team and we'll get back to you on this. Sorry for the wait!


2 months ago

We've cleared the stuck state on your domains. Your CNAME and TXT records still need to point to Railway for the certificates to issue. Once you update your DNS, everything should provision automatically. Let us know if you have any questions.


Status changed to Awaiting User Response jr 2 months ago


2 months ago

Hey, I've managed to add custom domain again however first validation of Certificate Authority failed, so I readded the domain again and updated my DNS records however I still see Certificate Authority is validating challenges - and it has been like that around 2hrs at this point. Usually it works immediately.


Status changed to Awaiting Railway Response Railway 2 months ago


2 months ago

Can you please create a new thread and link it here so that I can look into this separately (I don't want to share project specific details for you publicly).


Status changed to Awaiting User Response Railway 2 months ago


Status changed to Solved medim about 2 months ago


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