Can I enable CloudFlare on my root domain (i.e. mywebsite.com) that is an A record?

CloudFlare can only accelerate and protect CNAMEs, not A records, which often includes the root domain. If traffic goes to a root domain and you want to accelerate and protect the traffic using CloudFlare, you can add a redirect to www in your .htaccess file.


RewriteEngine On
# Rewrite added for CloudflareInstall - mysite.com
# Wednesday 25th of August 2010 04:59:42 AM
RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} ^mysite.com$ [NC]
RewriteCond %{SERVER_PORT} ^80$
RewriteRule ^(.*)$ http://www.mysite.com/$1 [R=301,L]


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