Should i proxy a cname record pointing to my cloudflare workers site?

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I have a custom domain for my cloudflare worker page. Should the cname record be proxied?

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Yes, If your worker is on the route worker.example.com/* then worker.example.com must be proxied. If the CF proxy is disable and CF isn’t receiving traffic, the worker will never trigger.

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Does the url i use as value for the cname record matter? Or does the cloudflare proxy just automatically redirect the request to the worker when there’s a worker with a corresponding domain name, regardless of what the actual cname record is?

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If you’re using a subdomain purely for workers, it should be an A record with the IP 192.0.2.1 (a reserved example IP). If a worker is set up for the entire subdomain like worker.example.com/* it will always go to the worker and never to the backend IP, unless your worker itself tries to fetch() the subdomain.

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