This article will help to connect your custom domain to Cloudflare™.
The Cloudflare™ free plan covers basic DDoS protection, increases your website loading speed and grants you an eternal SSL certificate.
To set it up, sign up the Cloudflare™ free plan and log in.
Hit Add website:
Enter your domain e.g. mywebsite.com
Choose the free plan and hit Get started. Follow the steps they ask you to do to set up the domain.
Add 2 A-type DNS records: for @ and www :
Enter the value from Unicorn Platform Site settings > Domain & Publish > Set up DNS for your domain into the IPv4 address (required) fields for both @ and www records.
Set the SSL to Flexible:
Create the "Always use HTTPS" page rule:
Enter your website URL in the field URL . Then Pick a Setting > "Always use HTTPS". After that click on Save and Deploy Page Rule
Done! The rule has been created.
Complete your nameserver setup:
At this step, you should go to your registrar account. Find Nameservers in the dashboard. Then select the Custom DNS option.
Copy the suggested Cloudflare™ nameservers and paste into the appropriate fields in the account register dashboard, as shown here:
And make sure you save your changes.
Registrars can take 24 hours to process nameserver updates. You will receive an email when your site is active on Cloudflare™.
That is it!
Now check out your website. It should get a cute lock icon near it:
If something is not going smooth, simply chat with us 🤓
Please do not use Cloudflare™ Rocket Load. It will break our script.
.app and .dev domains
These domain zones require some more actions. If your domain TLD is either .app or .dev please do this:
1) Issue Unicorn Platform certificate by pressing the Issue SSL button:
2) Switch the Cloudflare™ SSL mode to Full:
The Cloudflare™ free plan covers basic DDoS protection, increases your website loading speed and grants you an eternal SSL certificate.
To set it up, sign up the Cloudflare™ free plan and log in.
Hit Add website:
Enter your domain e.g. mywebsite.com
Choose the free plan and hit Get started. Follow the steps they ask you to do to set up the domain.
Add 2 A-type DNS records: for @ and www :
Enter the value from Unicorn Platform Site settings > Domain & Publish > Set up DNS for your domain into the IPv4 address (required) fields for both @ and www records.
Set the SSL to Flexible:
Create the "Always use HTTPS" page rule:
Enter your website URL in the field URL . Then Pick a Setting > "Always use HTTPS". After that click on Save and Deploy Page Rule
Done! The rule has been created.
Complete your nameserver setup:
At this step, you should go to your registrar account. Find Nameservers in the dashboard. Then select the Custom DNS option.
Copy the suggested Cloudflare™ nameservers and paste into the appropriate fields in the account register dashboard, as shown here:
And make sure you save your changes.
Registrars can take 24 hours to process nameserver updates. You will receive an email when your site is active on Cloudflare™.
That is it!
Now check out your website. It should get a cute lock icon near it:
If something is not going smooth, simply chat with us 🤓
Please do not use Cloudflare™ Rocket Load. It will break our script.
.app and .dev domains
These domain zones require some more actions. If your domain TLD is either .app or .dev please do this:
1) Issue Unicorn Platform certificate by pressing the Issue SSL button:
2) Switch the Cloudflare™ SSL mode to Full:
Updated on: 16 / 06 / 2022