Fix: SSL Certificate Issues on CDN-Fronted Domains

When your site is behind Cloudflare or another CDN, visitors see the CDN's certificate. Your origin server has its own certificate. Both can expire independently — and most monitoring tools only check the CDN cert.

Check origin cert directly
# Check what CDN serves to visitors:
openssl s_client -connect yourdomain.com:443 2>/dev/null | $
  openssl x509 -noout -dates

# Check origin cert directly (bypass CDN):
openssl s_client -connect YOUR_SERVER_IP:443 $
  -servername yourdomain.com 2>/dev/null | $
  openssl x509 -noout -dates

The ConfigClarity SSL Checker flags CDN-fronted domains in orange — the cert is managed by the CDN and may have different renewal behaviour than origin certs.

Check CDN and origin certs for your domains in the SSL Checker.

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