Shopify & Cloudflare fighting for redirects
Hello!
I've been fighting different settings for a working redirect for a few days now and cannot seem to get it.
In short, we migrated a blog (wordpress/subdomain) to Shopify blogs (website.com/blogs/etc)
When I pointed blog.website.com to Shopify, it redirects to the primary domain, as intended. However, in Cloudflare, I want to redirect blog.website.com to a subpage in Shopify (/pages/blog-home) this is not possible within Shopify's built-in redirect function.
Can someone please help me with what I'm missing in Cloudflare?
Notes:
- I cannot disconnect blog from the Shopify connection as Shopify holds all the redirects for all 800+ URLs (working)
- URL-encoded Requests to this zone are normalized at the edge and to origin.
- I also tried this as a page rule, no luck.
Thanks so much!
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Well, after like 8hrs of doing this - we concluded with:
- Disconnecting the blog subdomain from Shopify (to stop their redirection to primary domain)
- Because Cloudflare requires Cloudflare Proxy to enforce redirect rules, we had to stop using a CNAME for the blog subdomain and switch to an A record pointing to a Cloudflare IP - 192.0.2.1
- Then creating 2x page rules to manage the subpage for the landing page redirection as well as the query string for individual posts
- We had to preserve the original query string ($1) in order for Shopify to pickup the redirects they are hosting
This was a challenging one for sure lol
All because Shopify doesn't allow for more control over DNS 🙃
looks like you solved it, but could it be that some of the rules are comparing
https://..... to a host value, when hosts don't have protocols?
regardless, that wouldn't explain the first (proper) rule working