Like cloud flare domain with netlify

Josephadam · April 16, 2024, 10:56pm

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How do I link the two together because the top one says it’s good to go but the button doesnt work and when I type in https://infinitycuisine.com in the browser it doesnt work but infinitycuisine.netlify.app does work

dig · April 16, 2024, 11:15pm

First thing to note is: if you are using Cloudflare for DNS, you should not have Netlify DNS configured. You use external DNS configuration. Remove the domain from Netlify DNS.

Have you added a CNAME record for www.infinitycuisine.com in Cloudflare DNS?

Also note that Netlify recommends not proxying a domain through Cloudflare

Josephadam · April 16, 2024, 11:30pm

when I make a cname it says it already exist but I dont have any other cname?

dig · April 16, 2024, 11:41pm

Is this in Cloudflare or Netlify?
If it is telling you it already exists you must have another record.
Do you have any other records, e.g. A record?

Josephadam · April 17, 2024, 12:03am

On cloudflare I’m supposed to add it right? And there are A records. I’m guessing I delete those?

dig · April 17, 2024, 12:20am

Read the documentation I linked earlier. It tells you what records you need. If you have other records you may need to delete them. I can’t tell you because I don’t know what they are.

Josephadam · April 17, 2024, 5:16am

here’s the records idk. I deleted the others but the www.infinitycusine.com is still showing an exclamation mark saying Awaiting External DNS. Also why does this work https://infinitycuisine.com and not this https://www.infinitycuisine.com

dig · April 17, 2024, 5:34am

Clearly there is already a CNAME record. When using external DNS configuration (refer my first post) you need to have this, and also an ALIAS, ANAME or flattened CNAME record with the Netlify load balancer domain as the value or an A record with the load balancer IP address. You don’t have any of those.

Have you remove the domain from Netlify DNS yet?
Did you read the guide I posted about proxying and Cloudflare?

You also wasted a whole lot of burnt orange digital ink given the CNAME record is known as being the value of your Netlify site infinitycuisine.netlify.app based on previous posts and the MX and TXT records are DNS Only meaning they are not proxied (because you can’t proxy them) and visible to anyone who cares to look them up (that’s how the Internet works) as below.

Your MX records:

$ dig infinitycuisine.com MX
infinitycuisine.com.	377	IN	MX	22 route1.mx.cloudflare.net.
infinitycuisine.com.	377	IN	MX	26 route3.mx.cloudflare.net.
infinitycuisine.com.	377	IN	MX	62 route2.mx.cloudflare.net.

Your TXT record:

$ dig infinitycuisine.com TXT
infinitycuisine.com.	377	IN	TXT	"v=spf1 include:_spf.mx.cloudflare.net ~all"

Josephadam · April 17, 2024, 5:55am

I did delete it and I did read the link but when I click the next part I cant find the part that shows ALIAS , ANAME? Also I did not know that lol im still learning and I do appreciate the help.

dig · April 17, 2024, 6:00am

Cloudfare doesn’t support ALIAS or ANAME records. They do support flattened CNAME records. Thus you can configure the apex domain (@) with the load balancer address apex-loadbalancer.netlify.com and the www subdomain with a CNAME value of infinitycuisine.netlify.app. Make sure both are DNS Only.

Josephadam · April 17, 2024, 6:10am

okay so i redid and deleted it now its working! I wonder why it didnt work the first time? but here are both links and they work. let me know if they do for you https://infinitycuisine.com www.infinitycuisine.com

dig · April 17, 2024, 6:23am

You still need to change the DNS records from Proxied to DNS Only.

Josephadam · April 17, 2024, 6:46am

What would happen if you didnt do that? I have another website with that on and ive had it on for over a year and no problems. It’s hosted on netlify too.

dig · April 17, 2024, 6:49am

This is outlined in the support guide I linked above. Read it.

dig · April 17, 2024, 6:56am

If you really want to use Cloudflare and have everything proxied have you thought about using Cloudflare Pages instead of Netlify? Save you a whole lot of trouble as everything is far more integrated. Just a suggestion.

Josephadam · April 17, 2024, 7:23am

I have but unfortunately cloud flare has a file size cap and my portfolio
and other projects are too big for their free version.

nathanmartin · April 17, 2024, 7:26am

You’re producing sites with more than 20,000 files, and individual files that are larger than 25 MiB?

Josephadam · April 17, 2024, 7:43am

the website is this josephdumke.com. I think it might be the pictures and videos thats why?

nathanmartin · April 17, 2024, 8:02am

@Josephadam Yes, it’s the case that you have some very large videos on your site, for example:

This page alone loads approximately 75 MB:

https://josephdumke.com/work/mobile-wax

Just be aware that unlike Cloudflare Pages which does claim Unlimited bandwidth on their Free plan, that the Starter Plan on Netlify does have a quota and overage charges for bandwidth:

With pages that approach 100 MB you could reach that threshold with 1,000 page views.

Josephadam · April 17, 2024, 8:22am

I seen that and I saw on reddit where the person got charged a riduclious amount of money hopefully netlify changes that policy. Do you know any other host that have built in Email form support. I like that with netlify instead of coding php or using a third party for form submission that neltify has it built in and it automatically goes to my email.