Redirecting www to domain apex

In this guide, you will learn how to redirect the www subdomain to your apex domain (example.com). This is a common question and can be achieved by using Bulk Redirects.

To do this:

1. Log in to the Cloudflare dashboard Open external link , and select your account and website.
2. Go to DNS.
3. Create a DNS record for the www subdomain. It must either be an A record with the 192.0.2.1 value or an AAAA record with the 100:: value. The new DNS record must also have Cloudflare’s proxy enabled (orange-clouded) so that it can enact the Page Rule behavior that you will create next.

4. Create a bulk redirect list, making sure to Edit parameters and select Preserve query string, Subpath matching, and Preserve path suffix.

5. Create a bulk redirect rule using the list you just created.

To test that your redirect worked, go to the Target URL and double-click the URL as if to copy it. If the URL does not display www, your change has successfully propagated.