I have a google hosted site and need to add a CNAME type WWW pointing to ghs.googlehosted.com.
which should include the “.” at the end as per Google instructions.
The problem is when I add the address and Save, the “.” is removed from the entry. This results in my domain not forwarding to my Google site.
As a work around, I have had to add a page forwarding rule, but I would like to avoid using the rule and use the CNAME entry instead.
Can someone please help?
The CNAME you create does contain the trailing dot. It just is not shown by Cloudflare in the dashboard. If the trailing dot were missing, your apex domain would be appended to the canonical name.
CNAMEs do not perform forwarding. Something else is likely the underlying cause here. Have you tried with the CNAME set to 
DNS Only?
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Thank you. I will try with CNAME set to DNS only. My domain is nidwannaya.com
Your www hostname is working. If you want the apex domain to also load the site, you will probably want to use a redirect rule. See the first entry in the cheat sheet.
I changed the CNAME to DNS only and that seemed to make it work. Thanks for the other tips in the Cheat Sheet.
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