Suppose I have two domains: firstdomain.com and seconddomain.com
I want firstdomain.com to forward to seconddomain.com
I can do this with a page rule firstdomain.com/* with temporary redirect to https://seconddomain.com
But I also need to have an A record for firstdomain.com and a CNAME for www set up in the DNS section.
what IP should I be using for the A record and what domain should I use for the CNAME?
Please see this post.
That says to use 192.0.2.1 as the A record, but what about the CNAME value for www?
Personally I would create an A record for www and point it to 192.0.2.1 as well.
Why do you believe it needs a CNAME?
If I delete the CNAME www and add an A record www with 192.0.2.1 and then go to www.firstdomain.com, I get a connection timeout error.
If I instead have a CNAME www with my old registrar’s parking page (parking.namesilo.com), then the redirect works. I’d prefer not using parking.namesilo.com for that value since I am planning on transferring my domain to Cloudflare so am wondering what a reasonable value to put in there would be
Do you have a page rule in Cloudflare forwarding www?
Are you able to post a screenshot of the rules?
thanks for your help.
I was able to get it to work with an A record for www to 192.0.2.1 and changing the page rule from firstdomain.com/* to *firstdomain.com/*
Glad it worked, this is the correct solution 
Adding the * in front made it affect www as well as the root domain.
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