Hello, I am trying traefik for the last couple of days but a can't get the dnsChallenge validation to work I tried with cloudflare and porkbun with no luck :frowning: The logs keeps saying: {"level":"debug","providerName":"production.acme","acmeCA":"https://acme-v02.api.letsencrypt.org/directory"…

dnsChallenge only works with the DNS provider hosting the domain DNS. Is that the case? Did you move your domain? Did you create the gs sub-domain in DNS? Are you within a corporate network? Are you running PiHole or similar DNS services?

Did you create an api token for the domain at cloudflare? https://dash.cloudflare.com/profile/api-tokens Also the name of your label in the compose file specifies "production" for certresolver=production, not 'staging'. When you try production you will also need to add a caServer: caServer: https:…

[image] GooseChaser: When you try production you will also need to add a caServer: caServer: https://acme-v02.api.letsencrypt.org/directory for the production cert URL under your production certificatesResolver It is not necessary to specify a caServer for LetsEncrypt production, all my examp…

Are you within a corporate network? Any potential firewalls blocking? Out of curiosity: If the domain is with CloudFlare, why did you test with PorkBun?

I switch the nameservers to porkbun before testing it

I rebuild the whole machine yesterday and did the traefik config in traefik.toml and now it is working fine :slight_smile: No idea why, trying basicauth now with docker secrets no luck yet

dnsChallenge not working?

Traefik Traefik v3 (latest)

TimVNL March 19, 2025, 8:28pm 3

The domain is using cloudflare it's has cloudflare's nameservers and has the gs and *.ga subdomain pointing to the VPS
no pihole or other dns ad blocker is active

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dnsChallenge not working?

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