Can anyone help me setup my DNS records for a subdomain? I have codybobay.com registered in GoDaddy, nameservers point to Cloudflare. I want naked `codybobay .com` (or `www.codybobay .com`) to remain pointed to the hosting IP it is today, but subdomain shop.codybobay.com to resolve a word-press hosted website. I've completed setup on their end, and they've instructed me to add a few records to my DNS but it's not working. They have told me I need to contact cloudflare for help.
I could point my nameservers to wordpress and use them for DNS management, but I'm really using some cloudflare functions I don't want to give up.
`woo-enthusiastically-candid-balloon.wpcomstaging .com` is the secondary domain for the wordpress site I want to load at `shop.codybobay .com`.
I sent them this screenshot (unredacted) and they said it was correct, although the "www.shop" seems odd to me (their guided setup tool informed me to add that). It gave me 2 A records to add as you see, and the naked codybobay.com here is pointed to the current host for it.
Is the issue a matter of the proxy? I guess I could try turning that off but I'd prefer to make informed decisions and not flip switches
I don’t see a problem with your DNS entries, but your shop domain is redirect-looping onto itself. Please go to the Cloudflare dashboard, choose your domain, go to SSL/TLS, and ensure the Encryption Mode is set to “Full (strict)”.
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I’m sorry the OP is so ugly formatted, it kept telling me I needed to use preformatted text for all links with backticks, and I tried but it still wouldn’t let me submit, so I tried breaking every link by typing a space before the dot com and still it wouldn’t submit.
Here I will try to make it actually submit in a readable way:
Can anyone help me setup my DNS records for a subdomain? I have [Preformatted text](http://codybobay.com) registered in GoDaddy, nameservers point to Cloudflare. I want that naked domain or the www version to remain pointed to the hosting IP it is today, but subdomain [Preformatted text](http://shop.codybobay.com) to resolve a word-press hosted website. I’ve completed setup on their end, and they’ve instructed me to add a few records to my DNS but it’s not working. They have told me I need to contact cloudflare for help.
I could point my nameservers to wordpress and use them for DNS management, but I’m really using some cloudflare functions I don’t want to give up.
[Preformatted text](http://woo-enthusiastically-candid-balloon.wpcomstaging.com) is the secondary domain for the wordpress site I want to load at [Preformatted text](http://shop.codybobay.com).
I sent them this screenshot (unredacted) and they said it was correct, although the www shop entry seems odd to me (their guided setup tool informed me to add that). It gave me 2 A records to add as you see, and the naked codybobay[.]com here is pointed to the current host for it.
Is the issue a matter of the proxy? I guess I could try turning that off but I’d prefer to make informed decisions and not flip switches
I found the setting but it seems like the page codybobay[.]com doesn’t load when I set it to strict
Sounds like the main site isn’t set up with a proper certificate.
If you shut off the 
proxy on the root and the www DNS entries, does the site load correctly? Does it load correctly over HTTPS? (Probably not.)
I’d set the encryption to “Full (strict)” and shut off the proxy on the main site. Then get the main site working correctly over HTTPS. Then you can turn the proxy back on for those entries. Meanwhile the shop site will work, and that sounds more important for encryption anyway.
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I asked my host to help me add SSL (there’s probably 5 domains on that shared hosting, a primary and several add-on domains (codybobay[.]com is one of them) but it seems none of them have SSL directly right now, Cloudflare is just providing the secure connection to the user.
the wordpress site (what I want to serve up at shop.codybobay[.].com) has SSL, but I’m guessing I’m stuck because the main domain doesn’t right?
I wish this wasn’t so expensive just to point a subdomain to a store. The main naked domain lands on literally a single flat .htm text file stored by itself.
Also they say it’ll cost me like $179 to add SSL cert which I sure don’t like.
But I also just noticed that two add on domains served there are set to full in cloudflare and work just fine, and in cPanel i see certificates for those domains, which I sure didn’t pay 180 for, so I’m going to try to press them again on this.
Yes, that’s why I say the shop site is the important one that needs encryption.
First of all, do not pay $179 for a certificate. That’s just a flat-out ripoff.
If they won’t add SSL for free, then aside from considering a new hosting arrangement, you can use a Configuration Rule to differentiate the setting between the two sites.
Go to your Cloudflare dashboard (that’s a magic link that will take you to Configuration Rules). Create a Rule for your main site:
Under that are a number of options for changing the settings. Scroll down to the SSL one near the bottom, and open it up to enable this option:
And deploy the rule. Now the setting is different for just that site, not the whole domain.
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