Migrating from .co.uk to .com domain using ; Blogger, Cloudflare & Google Sites

blog.dwthacker.co.uk/* A couple of years ago, I took a .co.uk domain simply because I wanted to try out my own self hosted WordPress site. The .co.uk domain came free, and I did not have many second thoughts. After this, I had enough of the constant updates to WordPress. So I thought I would take a look at an easier solution that was also free. 

For the base site, I made it on sites.google.com, and for the blog, I transferred and put it onto Blogger.com.

Unfortunately,  Blogger only supports one base domain so I could not have dwthacker.co.uk and .com pointing to the same blog. 


In this guide, I will quickly show you how to keep your old .co.uk links working with the new .com domain. 


  1. Purchase a new domain for this one I purchased it via google domains. 
  2. Change your blogger domain to the new one so from me it was from dwthacker.co.uk to dwthacker.com but you could change the domain to anything. 
  3. Go into Cloudflare and create the following rules 
  4. The first rule was for my subdomain so: "blog.dwthacker.co.uk/*" The Asterix is important as it allows Cloudflare to match anything after the forward-slash. Then select "Forwarding URL" "301 - Permanent Redirect" For the new domain: "https://blog.dwthacker.com/$1" The "$1" is important as it tells Cloudflare to keep the rest of the URL structure for your existing sites for me this was a blogger. 


  5. Repete this for as many domains that you need if you have more than 3 then you will need to pay for additional rules or set up an additional Cloudflare account if it is a separate domain. Cloudflare is just great so you should just pay them! 

  6. Set up your new domain, for me I did it via google domains so was painless. I was able to automatically add it to blogger and sites.google.com without any overhead of validating the domain as it was purchased on the same google account. 
  7. SetupURL forwarding on, if using google sites for your main site; then you may already know that google sites does not allow for naked domains for example "https://dwthacker.com" What google sites requires is "https://www.dwthacker.com" so if you enter just "https://dwthacker.com" you will end up with a 500 error.  So you need to put a redirect in that looks like the image below:

I hope this helps you out happy migrating! 


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