Domain forwarding on new CF domain

[user83514]

I just registered a domain with Cloudfare, and simply want to forward it to an existing site. I can only find instructions for “Page Rules” that don’t work. Is there an easy way to do this?

[cbrandt]

What instructions for Page Rules you followed, and what went wrong with them? This Tutorial should point you in the right direction.

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…

[Grace_cf]

Hello @user83514 ,

You will need to create DNS record with proxy enabled for the hostname that you want to redirect.
If there’s no IPs that you can point to, you can create a placeholder IP such as 192.0.0.2 with proxy enabled for the hostname to point to. Then Page rule should be able to apply to the hostname.