Cloudflare for SaaS with Vanity & www Sub-domain

I am trying to have a domain with its www sub-domain pointed to my system. So far I have only been successful with this if I added 2 separate hostnames.

I think I read about wildcard somewhere but I don't see any wildcard options when creating the hostname.

Is that really is the way to go? Kinda bad for the client having to create so many DNS records to validate and to use our service.

Or did I miss anything?

Laudian•3/9/25, 9:05 AM

Also, Apex proxying is an Enterprise addon. Without this, I believe it only works if the customer also uses Cloudflare DNS.

iszuddinOP•3/9/25, 9:58 AM

So I guess, as a free tier user, the only way is to get the customer to :

get customer to add CNAME for the main domain name
get customer to add CNAME for the www sub-domain
get customer to add TXT validation for both main domain and www sub-domain

Laudian•3/9/25, 10:02 AM

(1.) will not work unless the customer also uses Cloudflare DNS.

Laudian•3/9/25, 10:03 AM

And you shouldn't need (3.)

Laudian•3/9/25, 10:07 AM

Or can you bypass the limitation on Apex proxying with pre validation? I haven't actually tried that.

iszuddinOP•3/9/25, 10:22 AM

Thanks... I think I can at least get the customer to skip number 3 with HTTP validation. My server can provide that. OK then... I guess that's it. Just need the customer to create 2 CNAME records.

iszuddinOP•3/9/25, 10:23 AM

But I still need two hostnames for a domain name. Well... I guess that's it then.

Cloudflare for SaaS with Vanity & www Sub-domain

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