Hi everyone, I am new here so be kind. I recently started working with Replit and am absolutely blown away. I’m reasonably technical but not an out and out developer. I’m getting on very well with the prototype design but when trying to deploy my app the website is showing an SSL error.
I have added the custom domain in Replit but it gets stuck on verifying. I have added _replit-verify.www(.myurl) but it just won’t connect. Initially I was getting a warning page which may have been due to the domain being new but now I just get a NotFound message at the top of the screen and the red cross through https:
I have run DNS checker against _repllit-verify.www and I thought it worked but not 100% on this. Also my app can be accessed via the full replit.app address that is the other domain in the deployments section in replit.
I have tried everything that chat gpt has suggested including deleting the domain, waiting and reapplying. I know I can buy an ssl cert but don’t want to really.
Any help in how to debug this would be welcome.
Not familiar with this. There are two simple DNS changes to make, neither of those look like that.
Are you able to screenshot your DNS settings that you made changes to? I have TXT - www - working replit version of app and CNAME as per the image attached - sounds like I may have done something wrong.
Finally got this sorted. I ended up using Cloudflare as an intermediary as I had the same issues on another site that I built. This made config easier not sure exactly what fixed it but trial and error got me there. Cloudflare the website name instead of @ for anyone wondering.
Had to switch off the proxy for the CNAME and the A attributes as I was getting a “too many redirects error”. I probably over engineered this a little but all of this combined resolved the https issue as well as the server not showing up issue.
Just wanted to update here for others who are facing this in the future. Cloudflare was not the resolution in the end and in fact added challenges. Instead I just needed to get the correct A value and TXT value added as suggested. The important part is to get replit to show verified once that is in place everything should be good. However, I am still seeing security warnings when using Safari.
Cloudflare has its own SSL and its possibly conflicting with Replit’s SSL, it’s not able to verify the connection and flagging the connection since you have two points of verification for the domain. I had some issue on this before with cloud flare and SiteGround with a caching plugin on my woocommerce store, i honestly just turned off cloud flare and just increased my server specs to handle the increased traffic and then used jetpack and their security stuff. Is there a way to turn of SSLs on Replit so Clouldflare can use theirs in front of replit? I thought of using cloud flare before launch to but I didn’t want the headache, sometimes its more work than its worth.
