SSL domain redirect

[paul.meggs]

I bought a domain from GoDaddy, which doesn’t have SSL attached.
The domain forwards to another domain with SSL and hosting.

But as the original domain doesn’t have SSL, won’t forward with https://

[eddiestech]

Is your domain on Cloudflare. If so, you can do this by creating a Forwarding URL page rule to do the redirect, making sure Flexible SSL is turned on your SSL settings on the Cloudflare dash, and then making sure there’s an A/CNAME record on root/@ that is proxies (i.e. the cloud is orange not grey )

Hope this helps!
Eddie

[paul.meggs]

Hey - thanks for the response.

The domain is attached to Cloudflare but when I point the root at a bogus domain (192.0.2.0), I tend to get:

There was a problem loading this website

Try refreshing the page.

If the site still doesn’t load, please try again in a few minutes.

So no working forward to the other site on https

[eddiestech]

Is the record proxied i.e. the cloud is orange, not grey?

And is a page rule set up in page rules for the redirect? If so, share a screenshot. You can blur/redact out the domain if you’d like.

[paul.meggs]

[paul.meggs]

[paul.meggs]

Hope the above helps.

So the original domain is now a ‘naked domain’ - ie domain without SSL.
The naked domain needs to forward to the ‘new’ domain which has SSL.

So:

http://domain.co.uk => (https://domain.com)

As GoDaddy doesn’t support SSL over naked domains, it’s having to be configured via Cloudflare.

[eddiestech]

To be clear
Your page rule is
“domain.co.uk/*” → “https://domain.com”
And your DNS is
domain.co.uk (proxied) → random IP

In which case, this should work. You can also do the same on www. but this would need another page rule with “www.domain.co.uk/*” and a www A record

[paul.meggs]

hey, thanks for the response.

yes it is set like that - to be elaborate, it was a .co.uk domain forwarding to a .golf domain
seems to stall in a tab though… so not working? do you have a DM option?