SLL certs... just making sure

[jason]

What I’m trying to do:
Website on custom domain for anvil app hosted/DNS through Cloudflare.

What I’ve tried and what’s not working:
Followed directions here and with cloudflare. It has only been 12 hours, but the guides seem like it could take 48 hours for the DNS info to propagate… not SSL certs…

I created the domain and made a DNS entry with cloudflare, pointing the site to 52.56.203.177. I also chose the “strict” rules on

Clone link:
texasfluteguild.net

Sorry for the impatient questions, but it is my first “production” app I am publishing using anvil. Just making sure I’m not waiting for something when I should be doing something

Here is the error I am getting (and that you will get if you visit Texasfluteguild.net)

Excited to get this going: this is only the infomational part of the webpage. I am building sections where customers can have their own account and track progress of repair, get quotes, etc…

After trying to learn some other frameworks, anvil really did make the “building a reactive” website quite easy. Thanks for what you guys are doing.

Let me know if I should just wait, or if someone in the Anvil Crystalline tower needs to flip a switch…

[tobias.carlbom]

Hi

From what I can see, your newly created/pointed dns record to anvil server is not ready jet. See image below:

Link to tool: https://www.dynu.com/en-US/NetworkTools/DNSLookup?Host=texasfluteguild.net&RecordType=A&IsEDnsEnabled=True

For many domain registers it usually takes up to 48 h as you mentioned, so just sit tight.
Once the dns record has propagated Anvil will take care of the SSL certificate.

PS
I’m just a regular anvil user, but I hope my answer are helpful!

[jason]

Thanks for the reply, and thanks for the link to that tool… going to bookmark that one.

I’ll just enjoy the weekend and wait for it to be up and going.

Thanks again.

[tobias.carlbom]

Seems that the dns record has not been applied yet

Are you sure that your changes has been applied over at cloudflare?

Might also be a good idea to verify with cloudflare support that your A record points to anvil servers.

[jason]

Thanks for following up…
This is what it shows on the cloudflare side… (I don’t think I’m posting anything sensitive)

(it showed this after I added it on April 14)
I assume I did this correcly?

I can reach out on their end as well.
Thanks!

[tobias.carlbom]

Sorry I haven’t used cloudflare my myself.
But from my experience the www record seems correct.
I think your first record (where it says texasfluteguild.net) should just be @.

I am not quite sure about the proxy option. I looked at a YouTube video and there they had the proxy option unchecked.

Here the proxy option in checked. So I am a bit confused.

[jshaffstall]

Check with Anvil support to see if they can work with the proxied option. Alternatively, change it to DNS only and then the outside world will see Anvil’s IP address and everything should work as intended.

[jason]

If it is easier on them, I can turn off the proxy, but if I am reading it correctly, it says they can handle it either way with cloudflare ({unless i am reading it wrong)

I should probably reach out to support either way at this point: i’ll let you know what happens…

[jason]

@jshaffstall

Alternatively, change it to DNS only and then the outside world will see Anvil’s IP address

I went ahead and turned off proxy: might be easier, if nothing else, for the Anvil folks to see it…

[jason]

Just as an update: it works (sort of)…

I get this error on firefox:

If I “accept the risk” it goes through fine… I wonder if this is a temp thing with the SLL certs (will update support) or if there is something else I need to do on my end

(Just updating everyone for completeness: I know, the first time you do something is always the hardest)

[jshaffstall]

That is the normal message when you’re waiting for the SSL certificate to be created.

[jason]

Got it.
(hopefully someone else who is new and impatient like I am will do a search and not have to re-ask these questions)
Thanks.