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lilkim are you using the new Search Console? If I remember correctly in the new console you don't need to verify the www and non-www versions indipendently.

Anyway, what do you mean with "it's not letting me approve [...]"? Is there an error, or...?

    7 days later

    Hey, I want to change to custom domain of my Free Forum, so I went to the DNS Settings of my Domain Provider. I changed all the records to CNAME and put in the value freeflarum.com/settings gave me. In the DNS record, I can also change the TTL (which is at 1440 right now) and the Prio (at 0). Do I need to change the TTL or Prio?

      _MST2_ TTL is the time to live of the records. You usually don't want it too short, nor too long in case you need to do an update.

      I suggest you keep whatever defaults your DNS provider use, or do some research and decide for yourself what value is the best.

      It would be best to get a response from @Sanguine , but it shouldn't matter for FreeFlarum because he's using CNAMEs, so he controls his own TTL on the CNAME record and can update it accordingly.

      I'm not sure what prio is. Priority maybe ? Not sure if that's part of the DNS spec for CNAMEs...

      I have created the CNAME Records and I tried to change the domain in the Settings Page, but it always says that there is no CNAME Record for the FreeFlarum domain even though there is.
      Picture: https://ibb.co/kyypnBX

      There are no DNS records on that domain, other than information about the nameserver.

      ;; QUESTION SECTION:
      ;bau-fieber.de.                 IN      ANY
      
      ;; ANSWER SECTION:
      bau-fieber.de.          21599   IN      SOA     ns1.zap-hosting.com. root.zap-hosting.com. 1 28800 7200 604800 86400
      bau-fieber.de.          21599   IN      NS      ns2.zap-hosting.com.
      bau-fieber.de.          21599   IN      NS      ns1.zap-hosting.com.

        _MST2_ what kind of DNS provider is that ?

        It was under the impression that the DNS specification does not permit to have a CNAME record at the root if there is another record, as as there is always an NS record this not possible.

        However I notice the FreeFlarum docs say otherwise https://www.freeflarum.com/docs/howto/custom-domain/#using-a-root-naked-domain According to these it could work.

        As matteocontrini pointed out, you can try querying the domain yourself, it doesn't return any A or CNAME record. I have the same results.

        The best would be to contact your hosting provider to see whether they really support adding a CNAME at the root, or not use the root domain and go for a subdomain instead.

          clarkwinkelmann as far as I know most providers don't support that. CloudFlare does, but by requesting the A record for you and returning it when the @ domain is requested. So it's a workaround, but it works

          Hi, I've just realised I cannot access my forum created at FreeFlarum, is there any issue?

          Looks like @Sanguine lost interest in his project. The forum has been closed for five hours already - error 504. Technical support is not responding.

          • link replied to this.

            Well its been less than 24 hours. Technical issues happen. It may just be temporary. It would be strange if he just leaves without saying anything. The least he would make an announcement and allow everyone to export data. I think we may just have to wait a bit longer than a few hours. Remember this is a not a paid service.

              OrdinaryJellyfish Yes normally but not at the moment. At least I can't log in.

              edit: that works now again, as well.

              Fla Looks like its back online 🙂

              All FreeFlarum forums are back up! A socket glitch in PHP-FPM caused the master process to become out of sync with the actual FPM workers. I will be looking how to fix the root cause and/or a way to automatically resolve this, should it happen in the future. I am sorry to report that a majority of forums have been unavailable for about eight hours, but happy that they are working again. Thanks!

              Could you add "Persian Language Pack for Flarum" as well ?

              datitisev Thank you so much! That's exactly what I was looking for. I'll wait for Freeflarum to allow custom extensions or the next update.