Redirect all traffic from certain countries (Indonesia/Malaysia) to another domain

[wilber]

Hello,

I would like to block and Redirect all traffic from certain countries (Indonesia/Malaysia) to another domain. Is this possible?

[cbrandt]

@wilber

I would like to block and Redirect

You can either block or redirect, but not both. To block, you create a WAF Custom Rule (aka Firewall Rule). To redirect to another domain, you use Redirect Rules (beta).

Single Redirects — Example rules · Cloudflare Rules docs

[wilber]

Hi @cbrandt Thank you for your input.

OK so if I would like to redirect all traffic from Indonesia/Malaysia to a completely separate domain, how would I do that? I didn’t understand how and where to implement the rule, from the link you attached.

thanks in advance

[cbrandt]

You should go to Cloudflare Dashboard > Rules > Redirect Rules, and follow the example provided by the documentation. Here are some other examples you can check to get familiarized with the way Redirect Rules work:

Redirect Rules Cheat Sheet

Cloudflare Page Rules will soon be deprecated, as they are being replaced by a group of new Cloudflare Rules. Redirect Rules (beta) helps you make all kinds of dynamic or static redirects. Examples of some of the most requested Redirect Rules: 1 - Canonical redirect (naked domain to www.)

Redirect Rule details

When incoming requests match Field: Hostname Operator: equals Value: example.com Then Type: Dynamic Expression: concat("https://www.example.com", http.request.uri.path) …

[wilber]

Ok thanks @cbrandt

So if I wanted to redirect all traffic trying to access my site from Indonesia, to another site (for example: differentdomain. com), would this be correct:

[cbrandt]

That would redirect all requests to a single path (homepage). If that’s what you want, then yes, this should work.

Optionally you may Preserve Query string, if needed.