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How to setup google domain for github pages

google domains and github pages

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 can do it in 4 steps.

Prerequisites

STEP 1/4: Let gitHub pages know your custom domain

  • Go to your github repository settings page
    GitHub Settings

  • Add you custom domain name at Settings > GitHub Pages > Custom domain
    GitHub Settings Github Pages

STEP 2/4: Let your custom domain (trentyang.com) points to your github pages

  • Go to registar page on your google domains, select your domain
    Google Domain Register

  • Go to DNS > Custom resource records
    DNS Custom resource records

  • Add the record shown in the screenshot bellow. Note that you need to use the "+" button to add more urls.
    A record
    Here is the list of ips in the screenshot:

    • 185.199.111.153
    • 185.199.110.153
    • 185.199.109.153
    • 185.199.108.153

Incase these are outdated, you can also find the latest ones at github.

  • To confirm that your DNS record is set up correctly, use the dig command to do a lookup of your domain ```console

$ dig trentyang.com +noall +answer
trentyang.com. 3600 IN A 185.199.111.153
trentyang.com. 3600 IN A 185.199.110.153
trentyang.com. 3600 IN A 185.199.109.153
trentyang.com. 3600 IN A 185.199.108.153



  • Once the above is successful, your custom domain should work correctly. Go to your domain and take a look!

STEP 3/4: Let your www sub-domain (www.trentyang.com) point to your github pages

  • Add the following CNAME record
    CNAME record

  • You can use the following dig command to confirm that your setup is correct

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$ dig www.trentyang.com +nostats +nocomments +nocmd
www.trentyang.com. IN A
www.trentyang.com. 1263 IN CNAME chun-yang.github.io.

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STEP 4/4: (optional but HIGHLY recommended) Enable HTTPS for your github pages

  • Go to your github repository settings page, under Settings > GitHub Pages > Custom domain remove your custom domain and save. GitHub Settings Github Pages
  • Then add it back and save again.
  • Now you should be able to check the "Enforce HTTPS" checkbox and secure your site!

If you enjoy reading it, here is my blog https://trentyang.com/how-to-setup-google-domain-for-github-pages/

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Sayak Paul

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

My Google Domain settings are correct as well I think:

Help appreciated :)

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asura

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/...

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Alan Jantz

How did you resolve it? I'm getting the same error and I don't know what to do ๐Ÿ˜•

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Nikki Schmidt

Make sure you have www in Github for your custom domain

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Marina Delkova-Moro

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!!

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Kelly

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

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Marina Delkova-Moro

Thanks, Kelly!! This makes sense now!

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Adam Goodkind

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?

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Enzo Trompeneers

Same problem, any solution?

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Adam Goodkind

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.

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jwsmitherman

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.

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Bruno do Rosario Petrucci • 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

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fr3drick545

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

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Lena Kroeker

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!

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Danny Dore

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!

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Tashan Duncan

Saved me some headache here!

Thank you

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TheCarpathianCoder

Thanks man!

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Jakkapan

Thanks, Absolutely nice tutorial

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