Webhop & CName

[director5]

What is the difference between Webhop and CName?

[thedaveCA]

I vaguely recall that webhop is Dyn’s name for a web browser level redirection, meaning that the URL the browser is connecting to actually changes via a 301/302 redirect. This is not an industry standard term and therefore could mean something else, but it seems to be likely in this context.

A CNAME is a DNS level record that says “for all questions, ask this other name”, so this includes not only websites but potentially email and other services. In a web browser context, the browser will ask the target server’s IP, but will ask it for the original hostname.

[director5]

web browser level redirection

thanks

[director5]

Q1: How do I create a CName Webhop redirect within the portal of the Cloudflare zone dns?

Description: The CName web browser level redirections are not working, e.g., whm.dslcomputer.com

See, the attached screenshot image file for details.

[domjh]

Hi @director5,

If you want a redirect, you should use a page rule.

Redirecting One Domain to Another

This tutorial covers redirecting one domain to another. For this, we will be redirecting domainA.com to domainB.com. The following settings need to be configured under the domain you are redirecting from, in this example, this is domainA.com Step 1, The DNS Record: The first thing you will need is a DNS record for @, www and any other subdomains you want to redirect, set to . This can point to any IP address as the redirection page rule will execute first. I would recommend pointing…

[director5]

see, the attached screenshot image.

[domjh]

You don’t seem to have the required DNS record for that to work. Please check the tutorial I linked to.

There is more info in the video and linked support article at:

Using page rules to perform redirects

Introduction to redirecting with page rules video [Cloudflare Community Tutorial - Redirecting with Page Rules in Cloudflare] Specific Use Cases You may find a specific tutorial for your use case here, if not then below is some general information and guidance: Redirect example.com to www.example.com Redirect www.example.com to example.com Redirecting One Domain to Another Forward A Subdomain To Discord DNS Records for Page Rules From the Cloudflare Help Center: …

[director5]

[director5]

Does this work?

[domjh]

That looks like it should work, but you still don’t seem to have any DNS record for that subdomain, so the page rule will never activate.

For a page rule to work, you need to have a DNS record set to for the domain/subdomain that you want it to trigger for. You can create a record pointing to 192.0.2.1, a dummy IP address.

You will need one with the name whm

You can read more about this in our community tutorial.

[domjh]

Looks good and I am redirected to the WHM panel now

You may want to remove the post with your IP in the DNS records now.

[director5]

Thank you very much - domijh