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Can I enable CloudFlare on a wildcard (*) sub-domain? Print

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No, for security reasons, CloudFlare does not proxy traffic to a wildcard sub-domain. You have to explicitly list the sub-domain as a CNAME in your DNS records to be able to activate CloudFlare.

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