Cloudflare: How to redirect www to non-www domains

This tutorial will show you how to redirect all traffic from your www domain to your non-www domain using a Cloudflare rule. You can set this rule with a free account (up to 3 rules). To redirect your traffic, and therefore optimize the SEO as well as the display speed of your website, you just have to follow these 2 steps: add a Cloudflare rule, then add a DNS record.

I Adding a rule

1. In your Cloudflare account, select your website.

2. Select “Rules” from the sidebar.

3. Click the “Create Page Rule” button.

– In the first field just above the mention “if the URL matches”, enter the URL of your current website with the www, such as: www.mydomain.com/*. The asterisk will allow us to match the routes in the destination URL.

– Select “Forwarding URL” and “301 – Permanent Redirection”.

– Destination URL: enter the URL of your website without the www, such as: https://mydomain.com/$1. The asterisk combined with the “$1” will match and retain all routes.

II Adding a DNS record

1. Select “DNS” from the sidebar.

2. Click on the “Add record” button.

In the “Type” field: choose “A”.

In the “Name” field, type “www”.

In the “Ipv4” field: enter your IP address (the same as the other DNS records).

Recap in this video from the Cloudflare community:

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