Forward non-www to www for Pages site with external DNS

[futureselves]

I’ve successfully set up my Cloudflare Pages site with a custom domain, using a CNAME.

The nameservers are not pointed at Cloudflare. Is there any way to forward the non-www version of the domain to the www version without changing the nameservers?

Right now the non-www domain points nowhere, which isn’t great. I’ve tried the docs, but it isn’t clear on this.

[epic.network]

Welcome to the Cloudflare Community.

@futureselves

Is there any way to forward the non-www version of the domain to the www version without changing the nameservers?

Yes, but not without access to your own webserver.

1. Point the apex name to a webserver that you control.
2. Secure it with a publicly trusted certificate.
3. Configure the webserver to execute the redirect to the desired www hostname.
4. ?
5. Profit!