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title: "💭 Fix VERSION_OR_CIPHER_MISMATCH · Cloudflare SSL/TLS docs"
description: "!https://developers.cloudflare.com/ssl/troubleshooting/version-cipher-mismatch/"
date: 2025-02-05
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Today I learned that cloudflare free tier  universal certs do not support multilevel subdomains.


> By default, Cloudflare Universal SSL certificates only cover your apex domain and one level of subdomain.

![image](https://dropper.wayl.one/api/file/7d1fe806-a3d0-47e3-8eb1-08c1a0965728.webp)

!!! note

    This post is a <a href="/thoughts/" class="wikilink" data-title="Thoughts" data-description="These are generally my thoughts on a web page or some sort of url, except a rare few don&#39;t have a link. These are dual published off of my..." data-date="2024-04-01">thought</a>. It's a short note that I make
    about someone else's content online <a href="/tags/thoughts/" class="hashtag-tag" data-tag="thoughts" data-count=2 data-reading-time=3 data-reading-time-text="3 minutes">#thoughts</a>