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Cloudflare Rules

Available on all plans

Cloudflare Rules allows you to control how Cloudflare handles traffic to your website. For example, redirecting visitors, rewriting URLs, overriding where requests are sent, or customizing Cloudflare settings for specific requests.

Rules features require that your domain (or subdomain) has its DNS records proxied through Cloudflare, meaning traffic passes through the Cloudflare network before reaching your origin server.


Features

Configuration Rules

Customize Cloudflare configuration settings for matching incoming requests.

Use Configuration Rules

Snippets

Customize the behavior of your website or application using short pieces of JavaScript code.

Use Snippets

Transform Rules

Adjust the URI path, query string, and HTTP headers of requests and responses on the Cloudflare global network.

Use Transform Rules

Redirects

Redirect visitors from a source URL to a target URL with a specific HTTP status code. Use Single Redirects or Bulk Redirects depending on your use case.

Use Redirects

Origin Rules

Customize where the incoming traffic will go and with which parameters. Override request properties such as Host header, destination hostname, and destination port.

Use Origin Rules

Cloud Connector

Route matching incoming traffic from your website to a public cloud provider such as AWS, Google Cloud, and Azure.

Use Cloud Connector

Compression Rules

Customize the compression applied to responses from Cloudflare's global network to your website visitors, based on the file extension and content type.

Use Compression Rules

Page Rules

Trigger certain actions when a request matches a URL pattern.

Use Page Rules

URL normalization

Modify the URLs of incoming requests so that they conform to a consistent formatting standard.

Configure URL normalization

Custom Errors

Define what custom content to serve for errors returned by an origin server or by a Cloudflare product, including Workers.

Configure Custom Errors

Custom rules

Control incoming traffic by filtering requests to a zone. You can block or challenge incoming requests according to rules you define.

Rate limiting rules

Define rate limits for requests matching an expression, and the action to perform when those rate limits are reached.

Cache rules

Customize the cache properties of your HTTP requests.

Workers

Cloudflare Workers provides a serverless execution environment that allows you to create new applications or augment existing ones without configuring or maintaining infrastructure.


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