Redirect Rules
Hello good morning. I have been requested to setup a redirect rule for the following:
HTTP or HTTPS - hostredirect.domain.com/*
to be redirected to the adjecnt page located at
HTTP or HTTPS - hostredirect.sub.domain.com
The rule I currently have is doing the following
hostredirect.domain.com
redirects to
hostredirect.domain.com/hostredirect.sub.domain.com
Is what I am trying to do above possible to accomplish and if so, how must I fashion this rule in order to work as expected?
8 Replies
What's your exact rule configuration? There's 4 different rules types you could be using to do redirects/rewrites. It sounds like you just didn't put the scheme/protocol for the redirect target, i.e it should be
https://hostredirect.sub.domain.com
yea, qualify it with the protocol
https://, https://hostredirect.sub.domain.com, otherwise it assumes it's a relative path
That wouldn't keep the existing path btw, was that something you wanted as well?Yea so if they went to either
http://hostredirect.domain.com/anywhere
it would send you to
http://hostredirect.sub.domain.com/anywhere
and the same for HTTPS
Change URL Redirect Type from
Static to Dynamic and then the URL/Expression to concat("https://hostredirect.sub.domain.com", http.request.uri.path)
That would force all connections to https though, if you have always use https on anyway that wouldn't matter, and you really should be using https for everything in 2023 unless you have some exceptional case otherwise. If you really wanted to keep http://, the easiest way would probably be to create two redirect rules, one matching ssl/https on, another matching it off, and having the protocol in the url target adjusted accordinglyThis is great!!! Thank you so much!! This seems to be working as expected. Is there anyway to do this on a non standard port like
https://hostredirect.domain.com:8112/anywhere
You would want to preserve the port?
It would have to be one of Cloudflare's supported ones: https://developers.cloudflare.com/fundamentals/reference/network-ports/, currently if you tried it on one of those alt ports it should just strip it
Thank you so much for the clarification.. I very much appreciate your assistance. No I just gotta figure out this one port if I can get it changed unless there is another way.