Is it possible to have positive SSL certificates for redirected domains?

[wingfly]

Hello Community,

I have one main domain and many other domains that redirect to the main one. Is there a way to have positive SSL certificates for the domains that redirect? They are not “child” or “sub” domains - in other words, it’s domain aaa.com redirecting to domain bbb.com.

Much appreciated!

[M4rt1n]

Should be possible by turning on HSTS & Always HTTPS and then redirecting from:

https://aaa.com ==> https://bbb.com

But not from:

http://aaa.com ==> https://bbb.com

Becasue then the redirect is happening before SSL-Redirect.

[wingfly]

Hi M4rt1n,

Thanks for the response.

https://aaa.com => https://bbb.com implies that domain aaa.com already has SSL? There are many domains that redirect to domain bbb.com and I am trying to figure out a way to make it so each one of these domains has its own positive SSL certificate.

Thanks again

[sdayman]

Any redirect-only domains in your Cloudflare account can have SSL. This tutorial makes it pretty easy:

Redirecting One Domain to Another

This tutorial covers redirecting one domain to another. For this, we will be redirecting domainA.com to domainB.com. The following settings need to be configured under the domain you are redirecting from, in this example, this is domainA.com Step 1, The DNS Record: The first thing you will need is a DNS record for @, www and any other subdomains you want to redirect, set to . This can point to any IP address as the redirection page rule will execute first. I would recommend pointing…

[wingfly]

Hi sdayman,

This seems to have worked, thanks!

Just a note: for each domain, it is important to “+Add Site” for each domain and Create Page Rule for each. Moreover, it’s important to create a page rule for www.aaa.com AND aaa.com (with and without the www.)

Cheers

[sdayman]

Glad to hear it worked.

As for the Page Rule, you only need the one shown in the tutorial. *example will match “example” and anything before “example” as well, whether it’s nothing, or has a dot.