Redirecting www to domain apex

Learn how to redirect a www subdomain to your apex domain (example.com).

This setup assumes that you already have a custom domain attached to your Pages project.

Setup

To redirect your www subdomain to your domain apex:

1. Log in to the Cloudflare dashboard ↗ and select your account.
2. Go to Bulk Redirects.
3. Create a bulk redirect list modeled after the following (but replacing the values as appropriate):

Source URL	Target URL	Status	Parameters
www.example.com	https://example.com	301	Preserve query string Subpath matching Preserve path suffix Include subdomains

4. Create a bulk redirect rule using the list you just created.
5. Go to DNS.
6. Create a DNS record for the www subdomain using the following values:

Type	Name	IPv4 address	Proxy status
A	www	192.0.2.1	Proxied

It may take a moment for this DNS change to propagate, but once complete, you can run the following command in your terminal.

curl --head -i https://www.example.com/

Then, inspect the output to verify that the location header and status code are being set as configured.

Related resources

• Redirect *.pages.dev to a custom domain
• Handle redirects with Bulk Redirects