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Discussion on: Looking for help fixing github-hosted custom domain's CNAME

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Stacy Montemayor

hmmm... I thought the "www" was a subdomain?? Also, if I don't list the repository name in the google CNAME, how would it know to point to this particular repository? (I have one other repository set up to be hosted with github pages, but don't have an actual website there yet.)

I'm kind of thinking I might do a subdomain redirect on google domains where I redirect example.com to example.com It feels kind of hacky but I think it would work.

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Chuck Ha

www is a subdomain. Yeah, your suggestion would work. Otherwise, I'd probably get rid of the CNAME file entirely and follow help.github.com/articles/setting-u... this very closely. Good luck!

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Stacy Montemayor

I dropped the repository name on google and it worked! I don't really understand why, but expect one day three weeks from now I'll actually understand. Thank you thank you!!