Page rules for subdomains from a separate web host not working

[da11]

Hello,
I’m trying to setup a page rule to redirect a separately hosted subdomain to act as folders from my primary domain.

demos..example.com/ example.com/demos/$1/$2

Here’s the setup:

• Primary domain is on wordpress, lets use https://example.com
• I’ve set up a subdomain successfully from shopify to point to demos.shopify.example.com. Because Shopify is not my main host, I obviously did not add Shopify’s A record, but only added the CNAME to accomplish this.
• I am not able to turn this CNAME record into a proxy
• I have my main domain proxied (orange cloud) along with the www version
• My A record is proxied
• My www CNAME record is proxied and pointing to example.com

I’m going to have several demo sites on this primary domain from potentially other hosts like:

• demos.magento.example.com
• demos.wordpress.example.com (this is the only exception since it will be on the same server)
• demos.bigcommerce.example.com

I tried creating this redirect rule:

where https://demos.shopify.example.com/*** would go to https://example.com/demos/shopify/***

I think I set this up properly but it doesn’t seem to want to work. My one guess is that the CNAME Shopify record is not proxied? Although I can’t turn the orange cloud on here. Got this from the documentation.

Any help is appreciated. Thanks!

[domjh]

Hi @da11,

@da11

guess is that the CNAME Shopify record is not proxied

That is correct, the page rules won’t work because the record is not .

This is due to The orange to orange problem. Shopify also use Cloudflare and so there’s a conflict there if you have Cloudflare on top of Cloudflare. I know work is being done on making this possible, but currently I don’t think you will be able to get that to work.

[da11]

ok thank you.

Do you know how long this work has been going for as long as you know?

This is probably not for this board, but is there a server side workaround out of scope of cloudflare? for example - modifying htaccess?

Thanks

[domjh]

Perhaps I misunderstand your setup. Are you trying to add a redirect from the subdomain that is on Shopify? That won’t work because of the proxying issue.

Or are you trying to redirect a different subdomain on your zone to Shopify? That should work if the hostname you’re redirecting from is , although you may run into Subdomain too deep.