redirect www to non-www (apex or root)

You can use Cloudflare to redirect all traffic from the www subdomain to the base domain (i.e., non-www). Here’s how you can achieve this:

Steps

1. Log in to Cloudflare Dashboard: Go to Cloudflare and log into your account.

2. Select the domain: Choose the domain where you want to configure the redirection.

3. Page Rules:

   • In the dashboard, go to Page Rules in the left sidebar.
   • Click on Create Page Rule.

4. Create a forwarding rule:

   • In the "If the URL matches" field, enter: www.example.com/* (replace example.com with your domain).
   • In the "Then the settings are" dropdown, choose Forwarding URL and select 301 - Permanent Redirect.
   • In the "Destination URL" field, enter https://example.com/$1, ensuring to use your base domain without the www.

5. Save and Deploy: Click Save and Deploy.

Once configured, Cloudflare will redirect all www.example.com traffic to example.com. This setup is efficient because the redirect happens at Cloudflare’s edge servers before the traffic even reaches your origin server.

redirect .org and .net to .com

To redirect traffic from .org and .net domains to your .com domain using Cloudflare, you can follow these steps:

Prerequisite

You need to have all your domains (example.org, example.net, and example.com) added to your Cloudflare account. You’ll configure the redirects for both the .org and .net domains using Page Rules.

Steps

1. Log in to Cloudflare Dashboard: Go to Cloudflare and log into your account.

2. Select the .org domain:

   • Choose the .org domain from your list of domains.

3. Create a Page Rule to redirect .org to .com:

   • Navigate to Page Rules in the left sidebar.
   • Click on Create Page Rule.
   • In the "If the URL matches" field, enter *example.org/* (replace example.org with your actual .org domain).
   • In the "Then the settings are" dropdown, choose Forwarding URL and select 301 - Permanent Redirect.
   • In the "Destination URL" field, enter https://example.com/$2 (replace example.com with your actual .com domain).
   • Click Save and Deploy.

4. Repeat for the .net domain:

   • Repeat the same steps as above, but this time, select the .net domain from your list and configure the page rule to redirect traffic from *example.net/* to https://example.com/$2.

Example Page Rule

For .org domain:

• If the URL matches: *example.org/*
• Then forward to: https://example.com/$2

For .net domain:

• If the URL matches: *example.net/*
• Then forward to: https://example.com/$2

Notes

• The wildcard (*) ensures that any subdomains or paths in .org or .net are properly redirected to the corresponding path on the .com domain.
• The $2 in the destination URL captures any sub-paths or parameters from the original request and appends them to the new destination.

Once you've created the page rules for both .org and .net, all traffic to those domains will be redirected to the .com domain.

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