Prepare unique source and target URLs, verify each target and check your account’s limits. Bulk Redirect source URLs cannot include a query string, which matters for old application URLs identified by query parameters.

1. Open the account’s Bulk redirects page or the zone’s Rules Settings Bulk Redirects tab. Remember that these lists and rules belong to the account.
2. Create a Bulk Redirect List and import a CSV in Cloudflare’s required format, or add reviewed mappings manually.
3. Inspect imported rows and deliberate options such as subpath or query preservation. Do not enable broad matching merely to reduce the number of rows.
4. Create a Bulk Redirect Rule that references the list and deploy it. Confirm source hostnames are proxied.
5. Test representative mappings, missing paths, query strings and nonmatching URLs. Check for redirect chains and loops before relying on the list for a migration.

For a reviewed migration from two old paths to two new pages, this headerless CSV uses temporary redirects for a controlled initial test. Replace both hostnames and verify the destinations. The last four values explicitly disable query preservation, subdomains, subpath matching and suffix preservation.

https://old.example.com/about,https://www.example.com/company,302,FALSE,FALSE,FALSE,FALSE
https://old.example.com/services,https://www.example.com/solutions,302,FALSE,FALSE,FALSE,FALSE

Import the rows, inspect them, then enable the Bulk Redirect Rule that references the list for the proxied source hostname. Test both exact old paths and an unrelated path. Deliberately review what should happen to query parameters before using the mappings.

Expected result: only the intended source paths reach their reviewed destinations. Select a permanent status only when the migration policy is settled. A source such as knowledgebase.php?id=123 needs a query-aware method because a Bulk Redirect source cannot contain that query string.

Each matching old URL should reach its intended live replacement. Retain the mapping file as migration documentation and update internal site links separately.

For URLs such as knowledgebase.php?id=123, a path-only bulk mapping cannot distinguish different article IDs. Use a suitable Single Redirect expression, application routing or reviewed server rule for query-dependent mappings.

No. The list stores mappings. A deployed Bulk Redirect Rule must reference it before matching proxied requests are redirected.

• Creating a Cloudflare Single Redirect for an old URL
• Diagnosing overlapping Cloudflare rules
• Exporting a Cloudflare DNS zone before migration
• Attaching a Cloudflare Worker to a narrowly scoped route

• Cloudflare: Create Dashboard
• Cloudflare: URL Components

• Cloudflare Bulk Redirect CSV format