URL forwarding to Google Drive Link using Cloudflare
Make sure you have access to the DNS settings of your domain to be able to set this up in Cloudflare using page rules1. You need to the following things in order to setup domain forwarding to a google drive link.
eg: I'm forwarding resume.kunalkeshan.dev 👉 https://drive.google.com/file/link-to-my-resume
Add Google's DNS to your Subdomain
| Type | Name | Content | Proxied |
|---|---|---|---|
| A | resume | 8.8.8.8 | ✔️ |
| A | resume | 8.8.4.4 | ✔️ |
After pointing the subdomain to Google's DNS2, make sure proxied is enabled, without this Cloudflare cannot forward the configured URL to the google drive link.
Setup Page Rule to Redirect to the Google Drive
Head over to Manage Domain > Rules > Page Rules, and create a new page rule with the following details.
- URL as
resume.kunalkeshan.dev/ - Page Setting to be
Forwarding URL - Status Code as
301 - Finally destination URL as
https://drive.google.com/file/link-to-my-resume
Give it a minute or 2 before testing it out and it should redirect to your assigned google drive link.
Test mine out 👉 resume.kunalkeshan.dev.