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.