Help: The most basic Bulk Redirect just forgets the whole path

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I want to use the most basic Bulk Redirect to redirect all URLS from one domain to another. Specifically, www.fffilm.cz/any/path.html should redirect to www.fffilm.name/any/path.html.

www.fffilm.name is a Google Blogger.com blog.

I have a single Bulk Redirect as follows:

  • Source URL: fffilm.cz/
  • Target URL: https://fffilm.name/
  • Status: 301
  • Parameters: “Include subdomains” and “Subpath matching” are checked.

But when I try to visit e.g. https://www.fffilm.cz/2023/09/audio-recenze-prizraky-v-benatkach.html, I get redirected to the main page at https://www.fffilm.name/ - the whole path gets dropped.

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Hi,

Your Target URL does not match www. Try changing it to:

Source URL: fffilm.cz/
Target URL: https://www.fffilm.name/

but keeping the same parameters.

The redirect you’re seeing seems to reflect another rule. Do you have any other Redirect Rule or Page Rule enabled?

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You need Preserve path suffix checked as well. Perhaps the wording is a bit confusing there, but it basically takes any of the path that isn’t matched (in your case, the entire path) and copies it over: How Bulk Redirects work · Cloudflare Rules docs

As cbrant said, you also do have another rule redirecting from https://fffilm.name/ to https://www.fffilm.name/, but that one seems to respect/copy paths. It would still be more efficient to directly redirect to www though.

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Thanks, now it works. “Preserve path suffix” option was not needed, it was enough to add “www.” to target URL.

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