Wild card subdomain failure to issue TLS
istiqama-om
HOBBYOP

23 days ago

My wildcard subdomain can't be activated as custom domain

Failed to issue TLS certificate

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Status changed to Open Railway 23 days ago


avnish-es
HOBBYTop 10% Contributor

23 days ago

After validating the domain configuration, I don't believe this is a DNS or ACME misconfiguration.

Findings:

  • Cloudflare nameservers are active.
  • No CAA records are blocking Let's Encrypt.
  • Railway-created "_acme-challenge.waqaf.uk" resolves correctly.
  • Wildcard DNS resolves correctly ("test.waqaf.uk -> railway.app target").
  • Railway Edge receives requests and returns HTTP redirects.

However HTTPS fails:

curl -Iv https://test.waqaf.uk

returns:

TLS alert, internal error

and

openssl s_client -connect test.waqaf.uk:443 -servername test.waqaf.uk

returns:

no peer certificate available

SSL alert number 80

This indicates Railway Edge is handling the hostname but is not serving any TLS certificate for the wildcard domain.

Based on the evidence, the failure appears to be in certificate issuance, attachment, or wildcard TLS provisioning on the Railway side rather than DNS configuration


avnish-es

After validating the domain configuration, I don't believe this is a DNS or ACME misconfiguration. Findings: - Cloudflare nameservers are active. - No CAA records are blocking Let's Encrypt. - Railway-created "_acme-challenge.waqaf.uk" resolves correctly. - Wildcard DNS resolves correctly ("test.waqaf.uk -> railway.app target"). - Railway Edge receives requests and returns HTTP redirects. However HTTPS fails: curl -Iv https://test.waqaf.uk returns: TLS alert, internal error and openssl s_client -connect test.waqaf.uk:443 -servername test.waqaf.uk returns: no peer certificate available SSL alert number 80 This indicates Railway Edge is handling the hostname but is not serving any TLS certificate for the wildcard domain. Based on the evidence, the failure appears to be in certificate issuance, attachment, or wildcard TLS provisioning on the Railway side rather than DNS configuration

avnish-es
HOBBYTop 10% Contributor

23 days ago

Applications using wildcard tenant routing cannot serve HTTPS traffic despite valid DNS and ACME configuration.

Reproduction Steps

Create Railway service.

Add wildcard custom domain (*.waqaf.uk).

Configure Railway DNS records.

Wait for DNS propagation.

Retry certificate issuance.

Result:

TLS issuance fails and no certificate is served by railway-edge.


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