acusti
CDCloudflare Developers
•Created by acusti on 9/11/2024 in #general-help
Make apex domains work with Cloudflare for SaaS’s custom hostnames feature
i have a domain where i brought its DNS over to cloudflare (by using cloudflare’s nameservers) that i also have setup as a custom hostname with Cloudflare for SaaS. when i create a CNAME for the
www and point it at my CNAME target, everything works well (this is the specific hostname i am working on: https://www.photoactivemedia.com/). however, when i create a CNAME for @ and point that at the same CNAME target, i get a 530 (Error 1016 when the error page shows up: https://photoactivemedia.com/). i also tried creating a CNAME for the root to point it at the www version, but that didn’t work either. also, when i created a custom hostname for the apex domain in Cloudflare for SaaS, i got the error “custom hostname does not CNAME to this zone.”
if anyone has any idea what i’m doing wrong or how i can resolve this, i’d love to hear about it!35 replies