Redirect http, www, and .io to one main domain

[cordage_bawl0u]

What is the name of the domain?

iulianonofrei.com

What is the issue you’re encountering

Too many redirects

What are the steps to reproduce the issue?

I’m struggling for the past half hour to post this, because, stupidly enough, the forum for domain-related questions doesn’t allow new users to post 4 links, even if they’re enclosed as code blocks.

[cordage_bawl0u]

I followed both Redirecting www to domain apex · Cloudflare Pages docs and Redirect one domain to another · Cloudflare Fundamentals docs, but…

[cordage_bawl0u]

… www.iulianonofrei.io doesn’t work, and iulianonofrei.com has too many redirects.

[cordage_bawl0u]

I want to:

• “disable” http by always redirecting to https,
• “disable” www by always redirecting to the apex domain,
• have a “shortcut” of iulianonofrei.io for iulianonofrei.com.

This means that any combination like http://www.iulianonofrei.io, https://iulianonofrei.io, https://www.iulianonofrei.com should redirect to https://iulianonofrei.com.

For future-proofing, it would be nice if paths and query params are also supported (and correctly transferred during the redirect).

From all the DNS and redirect (single, bulk, etc.) options available to us, what would be the most idiomatic and correct way to achieve this?

[sjr]

@cordage_bawl0u

Too many redirects

Check your SSL/TLS setting is set to “Full (strict)” in your dashboard here…
https://dash.cloudflare.com/?to=/:account/:zone/ssl-tls

@cordage_bawl0u

“disable” http by always redirecting to https

Enable “Always use HTTPS”…

Always Use HTTPS · Cloudflare SSL/TLS docs

@cordage_bawl0u

“disable” www by always redirecting to the apex domain,

See…

Redirect www.example.com to example.com using Single/Dynamic Redirects

Background: Redirect www.example.com to example.com (www subdomain to root/apex) using Single Redirects (also called Dynamic Redirects). Looking for the opposite? Redirect example.com to www.example.com using Single/Dynamic Redirects Prerequisites Guide: Navigate to your website in Cloudflare, and then to DNS → Records. Magic link. [image] Add a new record. The type should be AAAA (IPv6 type), the name should be www (www subdomain), the IPv6 Address/value should be 100:: (IPv6 Discar…

@cordage_bawl0u

have a “shortcut” of iulianonofrei.io for iulianonofrei.com.

Create a Redirect Rule in the same way as above.

[cordage_bawl0u]

Check your SSL/TLS setting is set to “Full (strict)” in your dashboard here…
https://dash.cloudflare.com/?to=/:account/:zone/ssl-tls

It was set to “Automatic”, as I thought that the website knows better than me, and that it enforces https with it.

I changed it to “Full (strict)” for both domains.

Enable “Always use HTTPS”…

I confirm that it was active for both domains.

See…

Before setting up this AAAA DNS rule, should I delete the A DNS rule pointing to 192.0.2.1?

Create a Redirect Rule in the same way as above.

So, with the hostname condition of iulianonofrei.io instead of www.example.com, and with the expression concat("https://iulianonofrei.com", http.request.uri.path) instead of concat("https://example.com", http.request.uri.path)?

[sjr]

@cordage_bawl0u

Before setting up this AAAA DNS rule, should I delete the A DNS rule pointing to 192.0.2.1?

You can use either.

@cordage_bawl0u

So, with the hostname condition of iulianonofrei.io instead of www.example.com, and with the expression concat("https://iulianonofrei.com", http.request.uri.path) instead of concat("https://example.com", http.request.uri.path)?

Yes, you might want to also include www.iulianonofrei.io as well by using hostname is in.

[cordage_bawl0u]

And I also need an AAAA DNS record for the root, besides www, right?

[cordage_bawl0u]

I just noticed that, for another domain, I have a CNAME DNS record from www to revolter.github.io.

So maybe the fact that these domains point to content hosted on GitHub causes all these issues, and I should use CNAME instead of AAAA & redirect rules?

[sjr]

It’s up to you, but if you CNAME a hostname to a host make sure that each hostname is configured as a custom domain on that service.

Usually for SEO and consistent analytics, people want a single hostname to be active (say www.example.com) and everything else to redirect to it (example.com, example.org, www.example.org, etc).

[cordage_bawl0u]

Yes, you might want to also include www.iulianonofrei.io as well by using hostname is in .

In the end, I decided to keep them separate:

• a rule for specifically redirecting www to the secondary root, and
• another rule for redirecting the secondary root to the main domain.