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How to setup google domain for github pages

Trent Yang on January 02, 2019

Intro Github pages is easy to setup, but to attach a custom domain with google domains, you may run into problems. Here is how you c...

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Sayak Paul • Apr 14 '20

Hello. Thanks for the amazing tutorial. A couple of questions:

Here's the output of the dig:

$ dig www.sayak.dev +nostats +nocomments +nocmd

; <<>> DiG 9.10.6 <<>> www.sayak.dev +nostats +nocomments +nocmd
;; global options: +cmd
;www.sayak.dev.         IN  A
www.sayak.dev.      380 IN  CNAME   sayakpaul.github.io.
sayakpaul.github.io.    379 IN  A   185.199.108.153
sayakpaul.github.io.    379 IN  A   185.199.109.153
sayakpaul.github.io.    379 IN  A   185.199.110.153
sayakpaul.github.io.    379 IN  A   185.199.111.153

When I navigate to sayak.dev, I get the following:

My Google Domain settings are correct as well I think:

Help appreciated :)

asura • Dec 8 '22

You will need to get yourself a SSL certificate. SSL basically encrypts any thing that happens on your website so that no attackers and intercept the information

Very sorry for the 2 year late response.
please read support.google.com/domains/answer/...

Alan Jantz • Dec 17 '20

How did you resolve it? I'm getting the same error and I don't know what to do 😕

Nikki Schmidt • Dec 18 '20

Make sure you have www in Github for your custom domain

Marina Delkova-Moro • Nov 12 '19

Hello,

I am stuck on step 2 and having trouble adding the IPs to my Custom resource records on Google domain. I get a notification "Record already in use" for the IPs that you have provided in this article and I can't figure out what are the updated ones. I have been reading through GitHUb documents for the last few hours and can't seem to find the current IPs.

Can you, please, provide the current IPs?

Thank you!!

Kelly • Dec 27 '19

I got this error when I still had a subdomain forwarding on under Synthetic records. It went away after I deleted that!

Marina Delkova-Moro • Dec 28 '19

Thanks, Kelly!! This makes sense now!

Adam Goodkind • Aug 9 '19

When I enter the dig command in Step 3, I only get the same 4 IP addresses from Step 2, and do not get a CNAME result. What have I configured incorrectly?

Enzo Trompeneers • Dec 23 '19

Same problem, any solution?

Adam Goodkind • Dec 24 '19

Unfortunately I do not remember, but it did eventually work. I think you need to make sure there's only 1 entry on that page. In addition, things usually take 10-15 minutes to propagate through the system.

jwsmitherman • Jan 21 '21

I can't seem to get this to work. I've deployed my react app to my git hub pages. I tested it without the custom domain and it came up fine. But when I attempt to add the custom domain it never shows following these steps. I'm at a road block here so any help would be very much appreciated.

Bruno do Rosario Petrucci • Jul 15 '20 • Edited

Hi, thanks for the great tutorial! I'm getting an error, not sure where.

Everything seems to be working correctly - dig commands lead to the same output you show, the website shows up with a check in github "ready to be published at brpetrucci.com" etc, but when I try the URL it says the page cannot be found? I'm very confused

fr3drick545 • Jan 18 '22

I have the same issue. Have you been able to find a fix?

Lena Kroeker • Oct 31 '22

thanks so much! It finally works!!!!!
I must've gone through 10 or more tutorials trying to get this all to come together, accidentally almost lost my whole project a few times somehow etc etc. Nightmare! sometimes you just need to start from scratch a bunch of times before you get the right combo, and this did it for me!

Danny Dore • Mar 18 '19

I just want to say thank you for making this! I was having trouble figuring out how to connect Google Domains and GitHub Pages, but your guide was the tutorial I needed!

Tashan Duncan • Nov 27 '20

Saved me some headache here!

Thank you

TheCarpathianCoder • Apr 18 '20

Thanks man!

Jakkapan • Aug 13 '20

Thanks, Absolutely nice tutorial

Karen Fletcher • May 27 '19

This article is awesome, the most straightforward and thorough outline of the process! Thanks for posting!

Dulani • Apr 7 '20

Very helpful! I was mistakenly treating the "Registered Hosts" as the A record and the "Synthetic Domain" as the CNAME record. Your clear and concise post straightened me out!