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Pointing a Github Pages Repo to a Hover Domain

Nicky Marino on July 30, 2018

This post was originally published on my website. Check it out for more awesome content! My blog is currently hosted using GitHub Pages—which is a...
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Charles

Dumb question, but what do you have for your Hover nameserver set to? I had assumed that I could leave this blank when using DNS records... but Hover seems to require something to be in there. Are yours set to dns1.hover.com and dns2.hover.com ? Thanks in advance :)

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Nicky Marino

Mine are set to ns1.hover.com and ns2.hover.com. Apologies for not specifying this in the original post!

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Charles

hey no worries man - thanks for the quick reply!

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Stephanie

Thanks for this post! This was exactly what I needed!

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Nicky Marino

I double checked my configurations and I don't have a www CNAME record. It's possible that other setups might need it though.

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David Ryan

You will need the CNAME for yoursitename.com to correctly resolve to the path you've set in GitHub. This ensures anyone using the www finds there way to the yourname.github.io and sees your wonderful site.

Check out: brendan-quinn.xyz/post/pointing-ho...

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Nicky Marino

Good point, thanks! I've updated the post.