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Good day,
I am trying to host a static site on G Cloud Storage. I followed the documentation here https://cloud.google.com/storage/docs/hosting-static-website and all was successful.
I purchased a domain from namecheap volunux.com and I named my bucket during creation as www.volunux.com after verifying the ownership in Search Console. I wasn't satisfied with the "Not secure" thingy, so I wanted HTTPS, I should have used Load balancer but I was looking for something cheap at the moment.
So I opted for Cloudflare to get me a free SSL and all was fine but here is the problem.
My site works at
www.volunux.com
https://www.volunux.com
but never works when it is:
volunux.com
http://volunux.com
https://volunux.com
For close to 24 hours since yesterday, I have been searching for solution to this problem all over the internet.
1. Some suggested and said, one have to create two bucket in GCS to serve both www and non-www.
2. Some, one have to create another bucket and in the web configuration, set the MainPageSuffix as https://www.volunux.com so that redirect will be perform.
3. Some, one have to create a cname record to c.storage.googleapis.com which I did but didn't work.
4. Some, one have to create an A record to set the IP to my hosting provider, I assume GCP but it didn't work either.
5. Some, I have to create a page rule and redirect all request from volunux.com with or without protocol to https://www.volunux.com
I think #1 would have worked but I have to maintained two separate buckets for one thing and #2, I don't know if it is standard practice but from #3 to #5.
All efforts prove abortive. I have read through threads on Stackoverflow, CloudFlare community, personal blogs, all didn't work out for me.
I have performed a URL Rewrites, 301 redirects from volunux.com/* to https://www.volunux.com/$1 but all efforts prove abortive based on the solutions I have found on the internet,
I am confused at this stage because I don't know what to do. I am thinking of moving back to Github Pages using Jekyll or even to AWS S3 but I don't want to do that just yet.
Somebody please help. Attached are the screenshot of configurations.
I have two CNAME record in the screenshot, am I going to delete the CNAME with the name www. or the one with the name volunux.com.
By the way, I just deleted the CNAME in the first row which is volunux.com and add another record with AAAA with volunux.com as the name and 100:: as the content, still it didn't work.
I contacted NameCheap, they mentioned something like DNS propagation issue and some people I asked to help me try the domain without www using naked domain and both http:// and https:// without www. said it work but it doesn't work with the naked domain on my own computer but works perfectly on my two tablet devices. I am confused.
Have you tried it in your side?
I just did as you said but I can't interpret what I got from CMD and which IP address to expect and which is correct.
I am uploading another attachment displaying my CF dashboard with a section bordered with black solid lines, I don't know whether the value should be www. or volunux but you can see that I included volunux and not www., However, this doesn't work still.
I want to remind you that some people I asked to help me check told me the naked domain works including using both http or https:// and it works perfectly on my two tablet devices.
What about the page rule for the domain I included previously, do you think there might be conflict due to this configuration?
This is getting me really confused but I am hoping to get it work.
