Cloudflare Redirects: How to Setup 301 Redirects (URL Forwarding) Using Page Rules

[@Guiviro]

Youuu sonoofaab$%! you DID IT! thanks dude, really, I was struggling cause CNAME was not accepting the url with "/" so I did it with CF and followed your tutorial and worked! So this is for all the people whi is in the comment section looking for someone saying "is not working" find the full article and follow the steps and re check cause it took me 2 times to make it work. Thanks.

[@devinschumacher]

hell ya!

[@vahidvahedi312]

worked like a charm other videos on KZbin didn't mention to setting DNS records beside the page rule Thanks man

[@fasteddy760]

100% was my issue. Then the page rules confirmed the correct path. When something does not work, the other coponents could be right, bt then get mucked up with changes that were not necessary, when trying to debug.

[@devinschumacher]

yw!

[@mickeylsmith3103]

Thank you for making this video Devin! This video allowed me to quickly fill in the pieces I was missing to forward my URL.

[@devinschumacher]

yw

[@jakobjohnston1426]

Bro your sense of humor is amazing, thanks for making it fun

[@devinschumacher]

Thanks dude! I cant wait to get these damn websites launched so i can go back to making content :)

[@fasteddy760]

With your video, I did in about tweleve minutes, four domains, after searching for the solution over three hours. THANK YOU DEVIN!

[@devinschumacher]

Booyah!

[@7Miss4Bunny7]

omg!! Thankyou! This is what I have been looking for.. you saved me a lot of stress!

[@devinschumacher]

Glad to hear it!

[@decipherwithzaryab5106]

super helpful, even after a year this tutorial is valid and to the point. thanks man

[@devinschumacher]

👍

[@ikleveland]

You sir are an interesting fella, I never thought the video that would help me with cloudflare redirects would also be the one mentioning standing and pooping. Thanks

[@devinschumacher]

😂 that is exactly the kind of thing my old roommate @oldmansaxon used to say to me

[@susanleys]

devin - thank you so much for this awesome video (yep, I was stuck too). This was immensely helpful., Thanks again!

[@devinschumacher]

you got i! taking requests on other videos LMK what else you need!

[@GlobalWorkings]

This tutorial was awesome. Great work!

[@devinschumacher]

Thank you! Cheers!

[@landersfamilychiropractic]

BEST TUTORIAL!!! Thank you!!! Worked like a charm!

[@karolisrud]

Loved your chill style! Great video, thanks

[@devinschumacher]

thanks! if you got any other burning Qs about internet stuff, drop em in im taking requests!

[@jskuzma]

This is exactly what I needed. Thank you!

[@devinschumacher]

yw

[@farrukhabbasofficial]

You da man

[@ivanashley5943]

Thanks bro! Saved tons of my time.

[@devinschumacher]

Glad to hear it!

[@jenniferdodd6699]

SO HELPFUL. Thank you! I completely forgot about updating my nameservers first too.

[@devinschumacher]

ya... i should prolly do a video on that too - thanks for the feedback

[@DavidTschoepe]

Wow, this was just what I needed. I was missing a couple of small details reading through the CF docs.

[@devinschumacher]

if you got any other burning Qs about internet stuff, drop em in im taking requests!

[@belphion]

Dude this fucking saved me. I've been trying to fix this shit for MONTHS. I had to do a little more playing around but this lead me to my solution. Thank YOU!

[@devinschumacher]

Booyah!

[@LiamAdasme]

thank you very much! the redirect rules wasnt enough but your video was what i needed 🔥

[@devinschumacher]

yw

[@rawessentials-pet-food]

thank you! that was fast and helpful, I appreciate your work

[@devinschumacher]

yw

[@AdrianWolls]

Thank you man. Super helpful. I just wanted to forward a specific domain on my website to a product page on Gumroad. Didn't think I'd be listening to someone talk about how to poop standing up. It had me howling 😂For that reason alone. I'm going to subscribe. P.s I'm your luckily 1,000th subscriber.

[@gdmoffitt]

Thanks for this video really helped!

[@devinschumacher]

🤔

[@lanieldee]

wow that was hard but it worked. thanks for this video!

[@devinschumacher]

Glad it helped!

[@KaiBuskirk]

thanks man! worked like a charm!

[@devinschumacher]

yw

[@saxmanwwjd]

Thanks Devin, it was a great explanation for setting up the 301 redirect. Helped me a lot.

[@devinschumacher]

You're welcome!

[@BraulioNeri]

It's working! Many thanks.

[@devinschumacher]

Welcome 👍

[@1rfan_saeed]

Thanks, Devin it works!

[@devinschumacher]

oh yeah!

[@ClaudioMonzeglio]

Great video and explanation. Explained it so that even a noob like myself fixed it after hours searching for answers, thanks

[@devinschumacher]

now THAT is what i like to hear!

[@peternodiff5737]

What would the Cloudflare settings be to redirect a NON-hosted domain to a hosted domain?

[@craiggrella]

Great tut. Thanks!

[@devinschumacher]

thx!

[@DwannHolmes]

what about how to mask instead of forward?

[@devinschumacher]

why would you wanna do that

[@rafaeldacosta8581]

i got stuck, thank you

[@devinschumacher]

and now you are ... unstuck, yes?

[@alans3935]

Simple and easy. Thanks man :)

[@devinschumacher]

yw!

[@brazzilianboy]

it just works, thank you!!

[@devinschumacher]

the best 3 words ever spoken

[@leucaigua8479]

You're amazing, thanks.

[@devinschumacher]

tysm

[@-JackER]

just with the DNS part worked for me, adding the rule of redirection instead

[@devinschumacher]

booyah

[@kaylaxindaris2463]

I’ve used this video instruction before and it worked perfectly, but for some reason now, I cannot get my domain to redirect to my website :(

[@devinschumacher]

Can you share some more information about what exactly you did? I could help you if I knew more.

[@hoanganh.new52]

Thank Devin, let me ask if there is any difference between 301 redirects on Cloudfare and Cpanel. Thank you

[@devinschumacher]

as far as the search engines are concerned (which is what i assume you are asking), as long as your page is 1. redirecting to the new URL destination & 2. the original "request" sends a response code of "301" --- no, there is no difference. do whichever you feel more comfortable with. are there any performance or cost differences? i don't know that'd be something to test. but probably not worth the effort unless your doing a super huge amount of 301s.

[@CliffordHepplethwaite]

This helped me. Thanks

[@devinschumacher]

Glad to hear it!

[@qaiyumhamid666]

Terima Kasih (Thank You) from Malaysia

[@devinschumacher]

yw

[@ricardovielmagarcia5431]

this saved my life, thanks a lot, hey I just want to know how can i keep my domain name, when the redirect comes it changes the name but I want to keep my original url, is that possible with rules?

[@devinschumacher]

can you give me an example please? that explanation was a little unclear

[@Ariele.Foster]

great video! Does cloudflare automatically add the A record @ (different IP address from the SOP) and the CNAME www now? I already had those two in my DNS and Cloudflare won't let me add more.

[@Ariele.Foster]

nvrmind, i figured it out -- was an old A record from my previous host. Thanks again for this video!

[@devinschumacher]

did you buy your domain somewhere else and point it to cloudflare? it will usually inherit your previous DNS records to avoid causing you interruption.

[@Ariele.Foster]

@@devinschumacher yes I did and I did en up needing to delete the old DNS records. I got everything working and your video definitely helped. thank you!

[@devinschumacher]

@@Ariele.Foster yes they will migrate over DNS record on your behalf as convenience. i wrote a script to delete them all bc it can be a pain when theres alot

[@Ariele.Foster]

@@devinschumacher that's awesome -- you are awesome.

[@divinecho5678]

Thanks, this was supper helpful

[@devinschumacher]

Cho welcome man!

[@erikgudi9119]

Amazing! How can there be only one resource on the whole Web explain how this is done?!

[@devinschumacher]

that is exactly why i made it!

[@bilencekic]

thanks bro :D all nice

[@brianfarley2723]

Love the color scheme, Miami retro Neon! Man I really needed this explanation, I've been struggling with my cloudflare DNS setup for a while now. How do you feel about cloudflare as a provider in comparison to others?

[@devinschumacher]

Cloudflare is best. By Far…ley

[@junebanks4163]

Do you turn off automatic HTTPS redirects before you do this ?

[@devinschumacher]

no. i want that on. HTTP --> HTTPS --> 301

[@audunjemtland8287]

I changed permalink structure from default: ?p=123 to Post name: sample-post/ Site is pretty new but was indexed before this change. What do I need to do, to completely index the site with brand new permalink structure? (It completely lost it's visibility, though the site does exist on google and are active.)

[@devinschumacher]

if its new it will take longer. more links = re-indexed and ranked faster. i assume you 301d each URL from the old one to the new one, yes? i would just focus on doing seo like normal, improve interlinking on your site for faster re-crawls, & submit your updated XML sitemap to google search console with the new URL structures. and did i say build more backlinks? always be building more backlinks.

[@soroguemedia]

what did you use to build the kick ass set up checklist? Looks like Notion on steroids!

[@devinschumacher]

devin.to/process-st

[@marshamurphy1922]

Thanks it’s worked

[@devinschumacher]

🍻

[@devinschumacher]

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[@chwaleedmian]

Can i redirect a domain with cloudflare and i dont have hosting I mean to say can i redirect using page rule without hosting ?

[@devinschumacher]

yes

[@aaronmani5384]

Thanks Devin, really simple explanation, much appreciated, I knew it could be done, just did not know how! We moved our Website Builder/CMS and could not match URLs which was restriction on the new provider hence had to do a number of redirects :)

[@devinschumacher]

How many redirects did / do you need to setup?

[@bharatblad]

@@devinschumacher Just two from live marketing campaigns, I noticed the Cloudflare is restricted to 3 on the free plan, thanks again 👍

[@devinschumacher]

@@bharatblad i think you can get around that with page rules and use 10.

[@devinschumacher]

@@bharatblad i could make a tool to allow you to do unlimited

[@galahadxd]

How to redirect based on the visitors Geo Location ?

[@devinschumacher]

that is a totally different can of beans my friend. but.. hahaha i think i know what youre trying to do already ive thought about this alot. i think i remember seeing something about this in Cloudflare settings recently actually its a paid upgrade if i remember right. also could be done at the NGINX level

[@iammichaelhughes]

Why did you choose page rules over the Redirect Rules?

[@devinschumacher]

No particular reason that I remember! Whatever gets the job done

[@FIREcrochethairstyles]

How do i create a subdomain to do this?

[@devinschumacher]

set the subdomain in the page rule area!

[@federico-donatone]

You're the man.

[@devinschumacher]

no YOU'RE the man 👊

[@jabbist]

Thank you!

[@devinschumacher]

🍻

[@TheSilverGate]

Thank you very much!!!

[@devinschumacher]

yw!!

[@francescozaccagnini3063]

Is it possible to exclude some URLs from Forwarding URL in Page Rules? How would like to access to the WordPress backend of my old website and exclude /wp-admin from forwarding. Thanks 🙂

[@devinschumacher]

Yes you can setup excludes. But why would yo use forwarding your whole domain and using wordpress at the same time?

[@francescozaccagnini3063]

​@@devinschumacher In case of an ecommerce you might need to access to old orders. I did not find a clear way do to that 😞

[@devinschumacher]

@@francescozaccagnini3063 if youre hosting the website for wordpress anyways you could just do the redirects via wordpress. or if you want to use CF -- are you using PAGE RULES or REDIRECT RULES?

[@pmpknives]

thank you !!!

[@devinschumacher]

yw

[@renecrooijmans3514]

Valuable!

[@devinschumacher]

ty!

[@davidalexander9895]

Works great but what if you want the https and http to redirect? Or do you just set the SSL to strict and wait until that's propagated?

[@devinschumacher]

yes just force https

[@anandbb1]

Thanks @devin

[@devinschumacher]

yw

[@karahanbedel336]

Thank you bro!!!!!

[@devinschumacher]

yw

[@shadowseek27]

pogged, thanks

[@devinschumacher]

whats pogged

[@oldspiced]

legend. ty

[@devinschumacher]

ty!

[@Konger023]

Thanks!

[@devinschumacher]

yw

[@tanangkun]

How do I delete a rules page?

[@devinschumacher]

click it and hit delete rule i think bottom right?

[@muna5677]

😂😂 You are forgetting everything like me 😂

[@devinschumacher]

When you know TOO MUCH … your brain has to toss a few things out from time to time 😂

[@CallRylee]

gets to page rules.... deprecated 😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂

[@CallRylee]

ok, i can still use it though it seems. thank you Devin!!! and my @godaddy burn in hell :)

[@devinschumacher]

@@CallRylee yeah that JUST changed that. been workin' for a year. i guess ill need to make an updated video when it stopped. and also yes, godaddy = 👹 death to

[@noonesmokingalot]

Thank you

[@devinschumacher]

yw

[@AlvaroGavilanes]

Gracias muy útil

[@devinschumacher]

Por supuesto!

[@Mohamed-ub4ly]

thanks

[@devinschumacher]

No problem

[@edurodriguez29]

Greate video !!! Ths a lot!!!, how do you redirect a subdomain www.dev.sample.com of a domain www.sample.com to another domain --> www.anotherdomain.com ?

[@devinschumacher]

Same way! Just put that in the URI/URL field. Or if you want to redirect ALL subdomains (sometimes websites have a lot) you can use a wildcard character. For cloudflare I think it’s an asterisk ( * ). It would look something like: *example.com/*

[@ERPNext-Support]

thanks alot

[@devinschumacher]

yw

[@mtpackaging]

Hello Davin, I like your video. But your voice is too low, i can not hear you clearly unless turn up to 100%

[@devinschumacher]

yeah i think that was the video i messed up on the recording. sorry :(

[@criisby]

it didnt work for me and i not dumb xD. I dont know wtf

[@devinschumacher]

whats your cache settings like? did u clear it? need more info to help!

[@掠星]

谢谢Thanks♪(･ω･)ﾉ帮我大忙了

[@devinschumacher]

yw

[@Nauman-pathan]

sir mine redirect stillnot working pl shelp me im frustrated

[@devinschumacher]

works for everyone else here. did you follow the directions? i cant really help you if you dont provide any details amigo

[@掠星]

谢谢Thanks♪(･ω･)ﾉ帮我大忙了😘

[@devinschumacher]

yw

[@PFFMaestro]

thank you!

[@devinschumacher]

yw!