Connecting with Cloudflare
You need the record Puko showed you in Settings — a name and a target. Keep that tab open; you will paste both.
Where to go
Your domain → DNS → Records. Open Cloudflare
Steps
- Sign in and choose your domain.
- Open DNS, then Records.
- Press Add record and choose CNAME.
- Put the record name in Name, and the target in Target.
- Set Proxy status to DNS only — the grey cloud — and save.
Watch out on Cloudflare. Leave the validation record on DNS only. A proxied record returns Cloudflare's own answer, so the certificate check never sees the value it is looking for.
The host field
Enter only the part before your domain. Most panels add the domain for you, so pasting the full name creates a record like _abc.example.com.example.com — which never resolves and looks exactly like a record that has not propagated.
Then
Go back to Puko and press Check. If it is not found yet, wait a few minutes and press it again — the record has to spread before we can see it. Do not edit it in the meantime; that restarts the clock.
Once it verifies, everything else is automatic. You do not need to come back to Cloudflare.
If it will not verify
Use Domain Connect Helpin your site’s Settings. It sends us what your domain is actually doing right now, so nobody has to guess.