Https to https url forward not working

[drichard]

so team, I have a simple question what am I doing wrong?

I want to forward https://www.dominiquerichardson.com to https://www.dominique-richardson.com

I set up the rules below

if you go to https://dominiquerichardson.com it works but I need to have the https://www. working for my google search listing

[sdayman]

The ‘www’ is a CNAME that points to Ghost. Is your ‘www’ record set to Proxied? If not, then click on the to change it.

And it would be more efficient to set your Page Rule to match: *dominiquerichardson.com/* and it will do all three rules in one.

[drichard]

it is set to DNS only and I can’t change it …it states that the record is being managed externally

I tried to delete it and re-add the cname record but it resorts back to dns only and not proxied

thank you for the rule suggestion …but I still need nextcloud.dominiquerichardson.com to work

[sdayman]

Delete that CNAME and replace it with an “A” record of ‘www’ with a dummy IP address of 192.0.2.1. Then you should be able to set it to Proxied.

[drichard]

I believe I got it working

so just in case, anyone else is extremely weird like me here’s how I fixed it …I think

so I use ghost.org for my photography site which has 3 sections… wedding, seniors, and other
I use 1 theme for dominiquerichardson.com (my main site)
I also use another completely different theme as a landing page (for my main site) at dominique-richardson.com ( this is what I want everyone to see first when going to dominiquerichardson.com) yes I know confusing but trust me this is easier than trying to merge 2 websites themes into one via code…I’ve tried

I was able to set up the url forwarding rules so that any form of dominiquerichardson.com will lead you to dominique-richardson.com

but the final piece of the puzzle was to change the cname record from [ wwww “main”.ghost.io] which came over from Godaddy to Cloudflare
to
cname [www “landing page”.ghost.io]

this seems to work when I even try looking myself up in chrome which I know is cached to high heck the redirect works…I will report back in 72 hours when things should cool down…catch up and likely break but

this is just a test for me https://www.dominiquerichardson.com should take you to https://www.dominique-richardson.com