Help adding or redirecting from https://www.mydomain.com to https://mydomain.com

fcboy69

Hi, great to join in this community!

I added a CNAME record my root domain www.mydomain.com to cname.freeflarum.com to my Cloudflare, and able to access https://www.mydomain.com

But how can add or redirect from https://www.mydomain.com to https://mydomain.com (without www. is not resolving), I tried to add page redirect rule in Cloudflare without success! Any help will be deeply appreciated.

SKevo

Hi, and welcome!

fcboy69 But how can add or redirect from https://www.mydomain.com to https://mydomain.com (without www. is not resolving)

If your forum is located at https://www.mydomain.com, then you actually want to redirect https://mydomain.com to https://www.mydomain.com (not the other way around). To do this:

Visit the Cloudflare dashboard and select your domain.
Click on the ‘Page Rules’ tab.
Click on ‘Create Page Rule’.
In the ‘If the URL matches’ field, input mydomain.com/*.
Select ‘Forwarding URL’ under ‘Then the settings are’, and choose a 301 (Permanent Redirect) status.
In the ‘Enter destination URL’ field, input https://www.yourdomain.com/$1.
Click ‘Save and Deploy’ to create the rule.

Ref.: https://community.cloudflare.com/t/558655 (except I did it the other way around, non-WWW <-> WWW).

Note that page rules (and all Cloudflare-related features, after all) will only work if your domain is proxied through Cloudflare (I think that you can turn on the proxy after you have successfully CNAMEd your forum)