How to redirect website traffic

[maxlange]

Recently, I’ve registered the maexed.com domain on Cloudflare.
Seems to be working just fine, with the exception that I can’t redirect visitors from the main domain to www.maexed.com (where my google site is) without cutting off the traffic to my iCloud mailserver.
So whenever someone tries to punch in my address, they only get the error 404, because they haven’t put the subdomain along with it.
But if I create a page rule, not only do I get Error 1004, but also I would cut off any connection form or to my mail address.
Has anyone got an idea, how I can resolve this?

[anon9246926]

I see www.maexed.com is a CNAME to google.

@maxlange

I create a page rule, not only do I get Error 1004,

Cloudflare services only work on records that are proxied. Currently there are no records for maexed.com.

To redirect maexed.com create an AAAA record with the value 100:: so you can use Redirects as per this documentation

Redirects · Cloudflare Rules docs

[maxlange]

Wait, how do I do that?
I have literally no experience whatsoever…

[anon9246926]

Do you know how to search?

Cloudflare has documentation such as

Overview · Cloudflare DNS docs

And Tutorials like

Adding DNS Records

This tutorial covers adding general DNS records and specifically A, AAAA, CNAME, MX and TXT records. Go to the DNS app of your Cloudflare dashboard. Enter your credentials and click ‘Log In’ Click the domain in question Click [image] [Please note, the content of the records below are solely for example purposes and should be replaced by valid records with content provided by your web host] Please select which record you need help adding:

A Record

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[epic.network]

In addition to the resources already provided, the first example in this reference topic should help.

Redirect Rules (beta) Cheat Sheet

Cloudflare Page Rules will soon be deprecated, as they are being replaced by a group of new Cloudflare Rules. Redirect Rules (beta) helps you make all kinds of dynamic or static redirects. Examples of some of the most requested Redirect Rules: 1 - Canonical redirect (naked domain to www.)

Redirect Rule details

When incoming requests match Field: Hostname Operator: equals Value: example.com Then Type: Dynamic Expression: concat("https://www.example.com", http.request.uri.path) …

As indicated earlier by @anon9246926, you will need to create a proxied AAAA record for maexed.com that contains the special discard prefix address 100::. That will cause Cloudflare to publish the appropriate records to get visitors to the Cloudflare proxy where the redirect will then be applied.