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. Next, go to Bulk Redirects > Create a new Bulk Redirects list > Create new list.

5. In the content type, select Redirect.
6. Add your redirect Source URL and Target URL. Your target URL must include https:// before the apex domain.
7. Select Edit parameters > select Preserve query string, Subpath matching and Preserve path suffix.

8. Select Add to list.
9. Go to Bulk Redirects > Create Bulk Redirects > select your list > Save and Deploy.

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 propogated.

​​ Related resources

• Handle redirects with Bulk Redirects