How to Create a Redirect for www on Cloudflare

When you host a site on Cloudflare it is a good idea to create a redirect from www to your main domain.

If you don’t have a www redirect in the Cloudflare DNS records, then you will see this alert:

Add an A, AAAA, or CNAME record for www so that www.mysite.com will resolve.

This is how you do that.

Step 1: Create a CNAME record

1. In the Cloudflare dashboard select your website.
2. Then in the left side menu select DNS >> Records.
3. Click the “Add record” button and add the following record:

Type	Name	Content	Proxy status	TTL
CNAME	www	mysite.pages.dev	Proxied	Auto

Step 2: Create a redirect page rul

1. In your Cloudflare dashboard select your website.
2. Then in the left side menu select “Rules” >> “Page Rules”.
3. On the “Page Rules” page, click the “Create Page Rule” button.
4. On the “Create a Page Rule for mysite.com” page, enter/select the following:
   1. In the “URL” field enter: www.mysite.com
   2. Pick a Setting: Forward URL
   3. Enter destination URL: mysite.com
   4. Click the Save and Deploy Page Rule button.

That’s it! You are done.

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Sources

• Redirect example.com to www.example.com