Cloudflare page rule isn't taking

[anil4]

I’ve setup a rule:

Also confirming that proxying is on, but the response isn’t what i’m expecting - it’s still hitting upstream.

The only help I see on this is to ensure proxying is ON - and this is the case for me. Can someone point me to what I’m missing?

[anil4]

here’s the couple other screenshots

[anil4]

However - the response isn’t what’s expected. Here’s the curl output:

[anil4]

Is it an orange to orange problem?

The orange to orange problem

This community tutorial covers what is known as the ‘orange to orange problem’. . What is the issue? If a service that other users then point their domains to uses Cloudflare, it can create a problem if both the domain of the site and the hostname it points to is set to . Take a web host for example, we’ll call them host.com. host.com asks their customers to point their domains to customer.host.com and decides to use Cloudflare and sets their DNS reco…

I’d really like to cache this page and serve from CF. Our provider (elementor) also uses CF I beleive.

[M4rt1n]

@anil4

Is it an orange to orange problem?

Yes. The IP you point to (162.159.137.9) belongs to Cloudflare, so this very likely is a O2O problem.

[user4358]

Leave off the https:// from the top URL field so that it looks like this:

Also keep in mind that doing it like this will only match the exact URL, you’ll need to include a wildcard if you want to match any URL under /post-graduate

[M4rt1n]

@anil4

Our provider (elementor) also uses CF I beleive.

A very easy workaround would be: implement the redirect with your .htaccess.
This saves you a PageRule, but therefore is a little bit slower, than if it would be implemented at Cloudflares Edge.

Should look something like this:

<ifModule mod_rewrite.c>
    RewriteEngine on
    RewriteRule   "^/post-graduate(.+)"  "https://pgp.kalvieducation.com/post-graduate$1"  [R=301,L]
</IfModule>

or:

<ifModule mod_rewrite.c>
    RewriteEngine on
    RewriteRule   "^/post-graduate"  "https://pgp.kalvieducation.com/post-graduate"  [R=301,L]
</IfModule>

or:

<ifModule mod_rewrite.c>
    RewriteEngine on
    RewriteRule   "^/post-graduate/"  "https://pgp.kalvieducation.com/post-graduate/"  [R=301,L]
</IfModule>

first try with code 302 and if everything works, then switch to 301.

[user4358]

Hang on, something about this isn’t sitting right for me

I noticed that https://kalvieducation.com/ is hosting an actual website, you’re not just using it for forwarding

But in the screenshot of your DNS page your A record is pointing to a Cloudflare IP, which is fine for forwarding-only but otherwise shouldn’t work

The https://kalvieducation.com/ website shouldn’t be accessible with that DNS record unless something odd is going on

Are you possibly using a Cloudflare partner/reseller for hosting?

If you scroll down on your DNS page, do you see the nameservers alexandra.ns.cloudflare.com and tanner.ns.cloudflare.com, or a different pair of Cloudflare nameservers?

Can you post a more comprehensive screenshot of your DNS page?

[omnaidu]

use bulk redirect

[anil4]

thanks folks.

1. We’re using an upstream service for our site - so no access to editing such rules. (host is elementor).
2. The host is also using Cloudflare. So this won’t work- o2o.

So, this resolves it - page rules won’t work for us. I’ll have to setup something on our hosting service side.

Cloudflare team: Could’ve saved me a lot of hair pulling if CF had recognizes O2O, and provided me an error on the page rules side. It has all the information (our DNS, the A record, it’s own IP range) to present this error.