CNAME records not taking effect

[mario16]

I’ve registered melissaandmario.com with Cloudflare and created 2 CNAME records (@ and www) that point to Melissa and Mario's Wedding, but they’re not taking effect. I’ve tried grey and orange-clouding them and I’m not sure if the issue is on the receiving server, which is with Bluehost

[Laudian]

Hi!

A CNAME record can’t have a path (/wedding). When people try to open melissaandmario.com, do you want the URL in the address bar to change to http://marioparra.me/wedding/?

Or do you want the URL to stay melissaandmario.com but people see the content of http://marioparra.me/wedding/?

[mario16]

Thanks for the response! Oh, I thought it could. Ideally, the URL would stay at melissaandmario.com, but my Bluehost shared hosting plan only allows one site/domain, so I was using the CNAME as sort of a redirect. Would a page rule be better suited?

[Laudian]

If you can’t add a second domain to your host, you will indeed have to use a redirect.

You can use either a Page Rule or a Redirect Rule. And just create a proxied AAAA record with content 100:: for the name you want to redirect.

[mario16]

Thanks! I know that DNS changes need time to to propagate, but I’ve removed the CNAME records and created 2 page rules. No change yet, but do these look good to you?

[Laudian]

It looks like you didn’t create DNS records for @ and www.

@Laudian

And just create a proxied AAAA record with content 100:: for the name you want to redirect.

[mario16]

Ah, I knew something was missing, but wasn’t familiar with these. That did it, thanks!