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Move SSL/TLS section higher and separate new zone vs conversion
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RebeccaTamachiro committed Oct 16, 2024
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import { Details, Render } from "~/components";
import { Details, Render, GlossaryTooltip } from "~/components";

<Render file="partial-setup-definition" />

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## Add your domain to Cloudflare
## Before you begin

1. Create a Cloudflare account and add your domain.
2. For your **Plan**, choose **Business** or **Enterprise**.
3. Continue through the onboarding steps, ignoring the instructions to change your nameservers.
2. Choose **Business** or **Enterprise** as your plan.
3. If you are onboarding a new domain to Cloudflare, ignore the instructions to change your nameservers.

### (Optional) Plan for SSL/TLS certificates

If you are only using [Universal SSL](/ssl/edge-certificates/universal-ssl/) prior to converting your zone, a certificate will be provisioned for your subdomains only after each of the respective DNS records are [proxied](/dns/manage-dns-records/reference/proxied-dns-records/). Refer to [Enable universal SSL](/ssl/edge-certificates/universal-ssl/enable-universal-ssl/#partial-dns-setup) for details.

If your domain is sensitive to downtime, instead of using Universal SSL, consider using an [advanced certificate](/ssl/edge-certificates/advanced-certificate-manager/) with [delegated DCV](/ssl/edge-certificates/changing-dcv-method/methods/delegated-dcv//#setup).

## Add your domain to Cloudflare

4. On the **Overview** page, select **Convert to CNAME DNS Setup**.
5. Select **Convert** to confirm.
6. Save the information from the **Verification TXT Record**. If you lose the information, you can also access it by going to **DNS** > **Records** > **Verification TXT Record**.
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That record must remain in place for as long as your domain is active on the partial setup on Cloudflare.

## Optional - Provision an SSL certificate

To provision a Universal SSL certificate through Cloudflare, follow [these instructions](/ssl/edge-certificates/universal-ssl/enable-universal-ssl/#partial-dns-setup).

If your domain is already live with a partial (CNAME) setup — with Cloudflare or another DNS provider — you cannot use a TXT record for [Domain Control Validation](/ssl/edge-certificates/changing-dcv-method/methods/txt/). That domain's TXT record needs to be reserved for forwarding traffic to Cloudflare.

## Add DNS records

1. In Cloudflare, [add an `A`, `AAAA`, or `CNAME` record](/dns/manage-dns-records/how-to/create-dns-records/).
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