Page rules for flattened CNAME (apex/root) subdomain

#1

I have a subdomain which has been delegated to Cloudflare’s nameservers. All verified and active. I’ve got a Google Cloud Storage container set-up with that subdomain and I’m putting it behind Cloudflare to be able to provide it with an SSL certificate.

The problem that I’m experiencing relates to page rules. I want to set-up a rule such as:

something.example.com/*/index.html

which does a redirect (301) to

https://something.example.com/$1

The problem is that whenever I try to apply the page rule, I get a 1004 error relating to DNS validation. There is no A record because of Google Cloud Storage - so something.example.com has to be a flattened CNAME to c.storage.googleapis.com.

I have a working site, but the problem is that I can’t do anything with page rules because of DNS validation.

Is there any way I can get around this problem?

Many thanks,

Martyn

#2

Well there’s no $2 in that example only a $1, perhaps the error related to that and not DNS.

#3

You’re absolutely right. I was trying to reproduce another, similar rule, from another account and mucked it up.

Many thanks for your help!

Martyn