Yep. As a datapoint: I set up my own Mastodon server behind a Cloudflare tunnel and completed every step except the cert, eventually opting to just tell Cloudfl

Yep. As a datapoint: I set up my own Mastodon server behind a Cloudflare tunnel and completed every step except the cert, eventually opting to just tell Cloudflare to ignore the cert config. The default solution doesn't work on a shared host where you don't have control over running your own services and opening your own ports, only serving static pages instead using a shared web server.