Hello, I have a discourse forum installed on a server with the mydomain.com live domain I have added the mydomain.com domain to a server that has cPanel in order to use the email service I connected the domain through CloudFlare and it worked seamlessly for me a few months ago. A SSLcertificate …

[image] Hani Ghaith: I have added the mydomain.com domain to a server that has cPanel Is this related to Discourse?

I believe absolutely. The problem is that the cpanel server is unable to renew the SSL certificate because A Recorded resolves to the primary domain server where the Discourse is installed. The Discourse is installed directly on the domain, not as a subdomain.

To be more specific, the problem is related to DNS configuration. If I pointed A Recorded for the main domain to the cPanel server instead of the Discourse server, it will succeed in installing the SSL certificate immediately. But this is not a practical solution because it will cause the Discourse…

If it were a standard install it would work. It’s impossible to guess whether it is something to do with cpanel, cloudflare, or whatever it is that cpanel is controlling.

https://.... , which was redirected from http://... Turn off http → https redirection in your Cloudflare, or turn off proxying in Cloudflare and set it to DNS only.

Thank you for your response I’ve already tried it now. But still unable to issue the SSL certificate for the same reason. I have disabled proxying for everything and disabled force redirecting to HTTPS I suspect that there is an SSL certificate installed by a discourse on the main server on whic…

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merefield (Robert) January 1, 2023, 4:31pm 2

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