Externally Hosted Domain 301 Redirect to Cloudflare Domain

[user1188]

I would like to redirect a domain hosted elsewhere to a domain on CloudFlare as a 301 redirect.

Do I have to make amendments to the DNS on here to allow it to work (add @ and www records)? It’s been done on the other domain host but when I type in the external domain I get a 1001 error.

Apologies if the answer is the same as others on here, but I haven’t seen the question being posed the same way as with the problem I have.

Any help would be appreciated.

[sandro]

If that domain is not on Cloudflare, you need to configure that on the server.

Otherwise you can certainly add the domain to Cloudflare as well and the follow 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…

[user1188]

Thanks for your response. I have checked again today, and it is working now. That took the full 48 hours to start working. Now I know why they add that disclaimer.

[sandro]

Cloudflare configurations usually take immediate effect, maybe a couple of minutes. What can take more time is DNS propagation but I am not sure if this was relevant here at all. Anyhow, glad it works.