Add Cloudflare Custom Domain to Vercel

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Add Cloudflare custom domain to Vercel

1. Sign up and sign in to Cloudflare https://dash.cloudflare.com/sign-up.

2. In your Cloudflare dashboard, select the Domain Registration > Register Domains tab.

3. Search for your favorite domain and purchase it. In my case, I purchased the domain https://nivethan.me/ for my portfolio.

4. Sign in to Vercel and go to your dashboard, where you can see all your projects in the Overview tab.

5. Click on a project and on the top right, select Domains.

6. Type your domain in the text box, e.g., nivethan.me, and click Add.

7. Select the recommended option: Add www.nivethan.me and redirect nivethan.me to it.

8. Vercel will show an invalid configuration under your domains and display the relevant A record IP under nivethan.me and a CNAME IP under www.nivethan.me. These need to be set up on Cloudflare to make it work.

9. Go to the Cloudflare dashboard and select Domain Registration > Manage Domains tab.

10. Your domain will be listed in a table. Select Manage.

11. Look for Update DNS configuration under the quick actions.

12. Add an A record (turn off proxy):

    Type	Name(required)	IPv4 address(required)	Proxy status
    A	@	89.28.116	off

13. Add a CNAME record (turn off proxy):

    Type	Name(required)	IPv4 address(required)	Proxy status
    CNAME	www	cname.vercel-dns.com	off

14. You're done! Visit your domain, and you should now see your project live and accessible.

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Using Cloudflare as your DNS provider

Worked for me, thank you!

Super helpful. Thanks!

how do I add nameserver to vercel (NS chloe.ns.cloudflare.com)?

This is supposed to be added to your DNS service provider (where you bought your domain name).

I had this pulled up ready to go through it but when I entered the domain on vercel they have an option to set it up automatically for you. Not sure of the consequences

I had this pulled up ready to go through it but when I entered the domain on vercel they have an option to set it up automatically for you. Not sure of the consequences

Did you get the domain name from vercel?

I had this pulled up ready to go through it but when I entered the domain on vercel they have an option to set it up automatically for you. Not sure of the consequences

Did you get the domain name from vercel?

89.28.116

is the IP address same for everyone ?

No, the IP v4 address is in your settings/Domains page in Vercel (I think, going off memory here.)

I also had to add the NS onto cloudflare for it to work. It took forever to find out that it was in the same place that you set the A Record and CNAME record.