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How It Works

Scope: What happens when we put CampusCore on your custom domain, and the one DNS record you create.

  1. We provision the certificate. During deployment, CampusCore requests an HTTPS certificate for a subdomain we manage (yourname.campuscoreai.com) and validates it automatically. This validation is a one-time wait of roughly 30 to 45 minutes on the first deployment - no action needed from you.

  2. You create one DNS record. Once deployment finishes, we give you the exact target, and you add a single CNAME record:

    ai.university.edu   ->   yourname.campuscoreai.com

  3. You are live. HTTPS is already configured end to end - there is no certificate for you to buy, install, or renew.

Using Cloudflare for DNS? Set the SSL mode to Full or Full (strict), since CampusCore already serves HTTPS.

With self-managed SSL

If you prefer to manage HTTPS yourself (for example, terminating SSL at Cloudflare or your own load balancer), you point your domain at the CampusCore load balancer and handle the certificate on your side. Your CampusCore contact will confirm the exact target to use.

After it is set up

  • The certificate auto-renews - there is nothing ongoing for you to maintain.
  • All traffic is encrypted in transit, and the application redirects any plain HTTP request to HTTPS.

Next: SSO Setup.