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Domain forwarding without running a server with CloudFlare
CloudFlare has a great option in PageRules to set up URL forwarding. I can set it to *.example.com/* to redirect everything to a different domain.
My problem is that while this works perfectly, this needs valid A / CNAME records in the DNS page. For example a server or an S3 bucket. I don't get why is this needed, since no requests will ever hit the server via this forwarding.
My question is: is there a way to set up URL forwarding via CloudFlare which doesn't require running a server?
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Not via cloudflare, but the registrars(mine do) can forward all requests wherever you want to using their default ns servers. Probs not news sorry.
Yes, just setup an A record that points to a random IP, turn CloudFlare on for the record and it will still work, even if the IP is invalid or not reachable.
@tr1cky: no, unfortunately it won't work. I've set up my servers address and it gets a CloudFlare error page.
What seems to work is to set up a CNAME record to
s3-website-eu-west-1.amazonaws.com. I have no idea why this works, but it seems to work.127.0.0.1
127.0.0.1 is automatically bypassed, so it won't touch CloudFlare as well. That was my idea as well.
I know for a fact what @tr1cky said will work, because I've done that myself. Use 1.2.3.4, that's what I used before and it works just fine.