ive made a site on google sites, bought a domain on Cloudflare and linked them. half the time it seems to work by going to drippinpips.com, and other times it just straight up gives me an error.
i also try to connect google analytics to it but it keeps giving a DNS error? the setup i have done on Cloudflare with TXT and dns record is correct as i followed what google told me to.
Your site is set up to work on www.drippinpips.com, you don’t have a DNS record for drippinpips.com.
https://cf.sjr.org.uk/tools/check?b2da44c01a594d6b91151d39cea56944#dns
It’s usually best to redirect the apex domain (drippinpips.com) to www.drippinpips.com on Cloudflare as you are using Google sites.
To do that, create a redirect rule here…
https://dash.cloudflare.com/?to=/:account/:zone/rules/redirect-rules
Copy this example exactly, just changing the host names…
Then you need to create a DNS record for @ here…
https://dash.cloudflare.com/?to=/:account/:zone/dns/records
…using a proxied dummy value of A 192.0.2.1 or AAAA 100::
Ensure your analytics are set up for www.
It seems like you have a CNAME record for www.drippinpips.com to Google Sites.
However, you do not have any record(s) for the naked domain (e.g. drippinpips.com).
As such, it won’t work for people who are excluding the www part in their address par, and thereby go directly to the naked domain (drippinpips.com).
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Add this record in your DNS:
Type: CNAME
Name: @, or drippinpips.com
Target: ghs.googlehosted.com.
Proxy status: 
Unproxied / DNS-only.
Hi, I have done this now. Will try again in an hour or two from multiple devices and see if this fixes it. Fingers crossed. Many thanks for the assistance.
How do I setup the proxied dummy value? I am new to this, apologies.
Hi, still no luck sadly. Does this take significant time to take effect…?
You cannot use the apex name with Google Sites. It is listed in their custom name requirements that a subdomain is required.
You will need to use a redirect rule. I like to use a AAAA record and only a AAAA record on the name in question, which in your case is your base domain. You will enter it with the @ sign. When you save it, you will see the @ replaced with your base domain name. Set the IPv6 address to 100:: That address is part of special allocation known as the discard prefix. It makes great placeholder address because it cannot accidentally send traffic anywhere that it shouldn’t. That AAAA record needs to be 
proxied so that the redirect rule can take effect.
Hi Sir, thank you for the reply. I have done what you said, and put in the 100:: as the ipv6. now when i try it says connection timed out. it says HOST ERROR in red
Did you remember to create the redirect rule?
Is the redirect rule enabled?
hi, yes i did. it still works only sometimes and sometime snot… i dont understand.
It is working fine here. You may need to diagnose your local environment for inconsistencies. I recommend not making any unnecessary changes to your Cloudflare setup as it appears to be working properly.
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