Best way to do a redirect to another domain (both on Cloudflare)

[metrosphere]

We just put three domains on Cloudflare, two (aaa.com and bbb.com) we moved to a new host and the third (ccc.com) we want to stop hosting because it’s just a splash page, so we want to redirect that domain to a page on one of the other domains.

So:
ccc.com → AAA Sorry Page

In fact it might be worthwhile to redirect any url from ccc.com to this splash page:
www → AAA Sorry Page

Is it better to have the DNS point the domain to the same server as aaa.com, and then use the host’s redirecting capabilities to direct the traffic to the one page on aaa.com? Or is it better to do this in Cloudflare? And if so how?

[sdayman]

It’s faster to use Page Rules to redirect. You probably already have DNS records for the old domains, so you just need the Page Rule from this tutorial:

Redirecting One Domain to Another

This tutorial covers redirecting one domain to another. For this, we will be redirecting domainA.com to domainB.com. The following settings need to be configured under the domain you are redirecting from, in this example, this is domainA.com Step 1, The DNS Record: The first thing you will need is a DNS record for @, www and any other subdomains you want to redirect, set to . This can point to any IP address as the redirection page rule will execute first. I would recommend pointing…

[metrosphere]

Thank you, we’ll try this!

[metrosphere]

We did the change and we’re getting a “The connection has timed out” error when going to ccc.com, maybe it’s just too soon. Fingers crossed this works. I’ll be in touch either way.

[sdayman]

Make sure that ccc’s DNS entries are set to Proxied. If you need more assistance, please post the actual ccc domain name.

[metrosphere]

Ah ok, they were DNS only. I just changed them.

ccc.com = metrospherelight.com, and it needs to redirect to Metrosphere.

[metrosphere]

@sdayman It’s working now! Good save. Thanks so much.