MrEprise Posted May 14, 2025 Posted May 14, 2025 Has anyone ever redirected a URL using Cloudflare? Our old 'schoolname.county.sch.uk' URL points to our old website (which actually isn't there anymore as of a few days ago) and we've got a new website at a new domain which is essentially 'schoolname.co.uk'. I'm trying to set up a redirect in Cloudflare where our old domain is managed; I've tried setting up both a hostname redirect and a page rule but neither seem to work correctly and I can't figure out why. So I've had it set where 'www.schoolname.county.sch.uk' OR 'schoolname.county.sch.uk' redirect to 'www.schoolname.co.uk' with a HTTP status of 301 Permanent Redirect. However, when I test it on a computer outside of our network, Firefox will redirect to 'https://schoolname.co.uk/www.schoolname.co.uk' and Chrome/Edge tries to redirect to 'https://www.schoolname.county.sch.uk/www.schoolname.co.uk', neither of which works properly as it seems to either prepend the old domain or the new one. I've still got the old A DNS records set which point to the old webhost IP but these are set to 'Proxied' instead of 'DNS only' as that's what it suggested when I set up the redirects. Any help is welcome.
ZeroHour Posted May 14, 2025 Posted May 14, 2025 Make sure you add "https://" to the start of your redirect to URL, it sounds like it doesnt have that. If you want you can post a screenshot of your rule. We (EduGeek) use Cloudflare a lot and I am in it nearly daily. For example below it will redirect anything http to https including following paths such as /something.html to the correct path: 1
MrEprise Posted May 15, 2025 Author Posted May 15, 2025 Not putting "https://" at the beginning of the URL was what it was. Thanks @ZeroHour 1
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