Problems with WWW and no WWW

[greenbitesproject]

Hello! What DNS record or rule should I add to my account so that when someone visits mysite(dot)com (without the WWW), that it re-routes to the main page of www.mysite.com.

Right now, if you type in “mysite.com”, it simply says the site does not exist. I’d love to be able to re-route traffic if they forget the WWW so that I’m covered either way.

I already have this rule: mysite.com/*
Forwarding URL (Status Code: 301 - Permanent Redirect, Url: https://www.mysite.com/$1)

is it a rule or a record that I need to add?

I’m sure that I am missing something minor.

Thanks so much!

[domjh]

Hi @greenbitesproject,

I suspect you are missing the DNS record required for the page rule to work, as the rule itself sounds fine. This tutorial covers your case, you basically need to add any record for the root domain, we generally suggest an A record pointing to 192.0.2.1.

Redirect example.com to www.example.com

This tutorial covers redirecting example.com to www.example.com when using Cloudflare, to do the opposite, please see Redirect www.example.com to example.com. You should replace all instances of example.com in the screenshots with your domain. Step 1, The DNS Record: The first thing you will need is a DNS record for @, set to . This can point to any IP address as the redirection page rule will execute first. I would recommend pointing it to 192.0.2.1, a dummy IP. [image] Step 2, Th…

[greenbitesproject]

Woo hoo! THANK YOU SO MUCH! Have an amazing day!

[domjh]

No problem at all, glad that helped. Thank you, hope you have a great day too