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Redirecting www to domain apex

Learn how to redirect a www subdomain to your apex domain (example.com).

This setup assumes that you already have a custom domain attached to your Pages project.

Setup

To redirect your www subdomain to your domain apex:

  1. Log in to the Cloudflare dashboard and select your account.
  2. Go to Bulk Redirects.
  3. Create a bulk redirect list modeled after the following (but replacing the values as appropriate):

Source URLTarget URLStatusParameters
www.example.comhttps://example.com301
  • Preserve query string
  • Subpath matching
  • Preserve path suffix
  • Include subdomains
  1. Create a bulk redirect rule using the list you just created.
  2. Go to DNS.
  3. Create a DNS record for the www subdomain using the following values:

TypeNameIPv4 addressProxy status
Awww192.0.2.1Proxied

It may take a moment for this DNS change to propagate, but once complete, you can run the following command in your terminal.

Terminal window
curl --head -i https://www.example.com/

Then, inspect the output to verify that the location header and status code are being set as configured.