Github Pages: Custom domain setup with Hover

Question

I'm a designer trying to put up my first site on Github Pages.

Goal:

Configure my GitHub Pages user page site,willmillar.github.io, to work with Hover domain (willmillar.com or www.willmillar.com)

Current setup:

I tried to follow the GitHub documentation and added one CNAME record to my DNS setup which points www to willmillar.github.io (screenshot of DNS setup).

I also have a CNAME file in my willmillar.github.io repo root which contains www.willmillar.com

Other things I've tried:

Tried to set up an Apex domain by pointing A records to 192.30.252.153 and 192.30.252.154, as well as several other solutions posted on stackoverflow. However, I don't really know what I'm doing here.

I have been testing all of my changes with the dig command from the Github documentation. But I get the same result every time:

$ dig willmillar.com +nostats +nocomments +nocmd

; <<>> DiG 9.8.3-P1 <<>> willmillar.com +nostats +nocomments +nocmd
;; global options: +cmd
;willmillar.com.            IN  A

The domain currently doesn't work and I have been getting page build error emails from Github which say that "[my] site's CNAME record should point to your-username.github.io, but do not".

What am I doing wrong?

Thanks!

Worldly

It looks like your main issue is with the Hover DNS setup. I'm not sure of the fix there (looks correct from your screenshot, but dig www.willmillar.com +nostats +nocomments +nocmd isn't showing the expected output. A secondary issue may be with GitHub Pages not building correctly. You should add a .gitignore file to exclude the generated _site folder. – Woolsey

@nicksuch, you are spot on. I talked to Hover suport, and they pointed out that my nameservers were still pointing to old GoDaddy nameservers from when I transferred the domain. I didn't think to check there! After changing back to Hover nameservers, everything is working correctly. Thanks for your help! – Worldly

Please post your solution as an answer and mark it as accepted. This helps users with similar problems to find your solution. – Rone

Answer 1

nicksuch was right. It turned out the nameservers records were still pointing to the old ones.

OP's reply in the comment:

@nicksuch you are spot on. I talked to Hover suport, and they pointed out that my nameservers were still pointing to old GoDaddy nameservers from when I transferred the domain. I didn't think to check there! After changing back to Hover nameservers, everything is working correctly. Thanks for your help!

Problem solved.

Indus