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Cloudflare Developers•9mo ago•
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ab92023

Cloudflare SAAS SSL Automatic Renewal

Hi,

I’ve just finished setting up Cloudflare SaaS for 25 hostnames, with traffic routing correctly through to
sites.mysaasdomain.com
sites.mysaasdomain.com
. For each client domain (a mix of root and subdomains), I’ve added the required "DCV Delegation for Custom Hostnames" CNAME entry, for example:

_acme-challenge.test.example.com
_acme-challenge.test.example.com
→
test.example.com.XXXXXXXXXXX.dcv.cloudflare.com
test.example.com.XXXXXXXXXXX.dcv.cloudflare.com

_acme-challenge.domain.com
_acme-challenge.domain.com
→
domain.com.XXXXXXXXXXX.dcv.cloudflare.com
domain.com.XXXXXXXXXXX.dcv.cloudflare.com


Additionally, I’ve set the
_cf-custom-hostname
_cf-custom-hostname
TXT record on each domain as part of the setup.

For some domains, I was also instructed to add a
_acme-challenge
_acme-challenge
TXT record alongside the CNAME, so in some cases I have both:

_acme-challenge.domain.com
_acme-challenge.domain.com
(CNAME)
_acme-challenge.domain.com
_acme-challenge.domain.com
(TXT)

I just wanted to confirm:

Will this configuration allow for automatic certificate renewal?
Is there a way to test that the automatic renewal will work as expected?

Appreciate your help—thanks!
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