Cloudflare 1001 error when digital ocean URL redirect is available in nslookup for domain URL

Has this resolved itself for you?

I’ve been experiencing this same issue since yesterday.

I’ve added my custom domain with a wildcard to the app platform. I created a CNAME record with the host name of *.MYDOMAIN.com and value of MYAPP.ondigitalocean.app.

I do not want MYDOMAIN.com to point to the app platform so I’ve left the DNS records for that and the www subdomain untouched.

DNS lookup shows that the record has propagated and going to AnySub.MYDOMAIN.com results in the cloud flare 1001.

On the app platform settings page the custom domain has been stuck at “configuring” for a day.

I just had this issue and resolved it.

This was my setup and if it matches what you’re trying to achieve, consider trying the solution below.

I had my DNS nameservers pointing to and managed by digitalocean. My app requires only wildcard subdomains to point to the app platform, *.mydomain.com, and NOT the root domain mydomain.com.

I created a CNAME record that points *.mydomain.com to EXAMPLE-APP.ondigitalocean.app.

This produced the Cloudflare Error 1001 page for any subdomain I attempted to vist.

SOLUTION

I found pointing my nameservers away from DigitalOcean and to Cloudflare solved my problem. Create a free Cloudflare account, import the domains DNS records, and change the Nameservers to the ones they provide.

Make sure that the CNAME record pointing to the app platform DOES NOT have an orange cloud next to it. It needs to be DNS only.

After that verify your Cloudflare SSL settings are set to Full. I found using Full (Strict) would give me a certificate error when visiting my subdomains.

I hope this helps!