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Cloudflare www dns record and redirect setup

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Introduction

Section titled “ Introduction”

Now my digital garden is running with a custom domain I wanted to make the www subdomain point to the root domain.

How To

Section titled “ How To”

Nameservers

Section titled “Nameservers”

My domain is not registrered by Cloudflare but by another external hoster so I used the Cloudflare name servers. After Cloudflare took over the DNS records, I deleted the DNS records that still referred to the external hoster.

Cloudflare DNS

Section titled “Cloudflare DNS”
  1. Add a new CNAME record
    Section titled “Add a new CNAME record”
    • Go to DNS and Records and click Add record
    • Enter CNAME as Type
    • Enter www as the Name
    • Enter fictionbecomesfact.com as the Target
    • Leave Proxy status on Proxied and TTL on Auto
  2. Click on Save
    Section titled “Click on Save”

Cloudflare Page Rule

Section titled “Cloudflare Page Rule”
  1. Add a new page rule
    Section titled “Add a new page rule”
    • Go to Rules and Page Rules and click Create Page Rule
    • Enter your URL www.fictionbecomesfact.com/*
    • Enter these Settings:
      • Forwarding URL
      • 302 - Temporary Redirect
      • https://fictionbecomesfact.com/$1
  2. Click on Save and Deploy Page Rule
    Section titled “Click on Save and Deploy Page Rule”

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Cloudflare Docs

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