Having trouble linking Google Domain with Github pages

[shellwe]

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So last week I got far enough into my portfolio site it was time to host it. So I wired up my google domain that was just forwarding to my GitHub account page for the past few years to my main GitHub pages account.

Here is my google domain (just gives a GitHub 404 error):
http://shawnwow.com/

Here is my portfolio page that it should be linking to
https://shellwe.github.io/

Here is my Google Domain DNS settings (I saw some other posts were able to bring in pictures but I didn't see that option)
https://imgur.com/a/R8SuRmC

What bugs me is it worked just a few days ago (not sure how, I basically threw everything at it until it started working), then last night I made some changes to my site and pushed it to git and ran "npm run deploy" which takes my react deployment and puts it in gh-pages for me.

Since my github pages works I don't get why my domain doesn't work, One suggestion on this forum said I should make a test.html and I just put hello world inside a body and tried to go to shawnwow.com/test.html, but to no avail, still says page cannot be found. I contacted Google Domain support but they just said I need to check with my webhost to make sure the IPs are right, but how do we know that? I don't see anything on github's pages saying what the IPs should be?

Is there any heartbeat I can sign up for that would tell me if those IPs ever change, I don't love the idea of an employer going to my domain just to find out the link is broken.

[linuxlawson]

I'm not seeing anything wrong yet.
What changes did you make yesterday?

It's showing a blank page. no 404

[shellwe]

I made no changes to anything in google domains, I just pushed this GIT commit:
shellwe/shellwe.github.io@633645a

Aaaaaaaaand now that I look at it, it looks like one of the changes was deleted my CNAME file, which would do it.

I'm using an automated process to push these files into here and it loaded it before, the contents of my CNAME file in main is this
https://github.com/shellwe/shellwe.github.io/blob/main/CNAME

I have no idea why it would have deleted that, I haven't changed my CNAME in 6 days, not sure why it deleted it yesterday, it is possible that last night was the first time I ran the "npm run deploy" task since I added www.shawnwow.com to the file. Does my CNAME look right? Maybe it had an issue with the formatting and didn't copy it over?

[DSDmark]

Hi @shellwe,

I'm not sure, but you could try this.

When I see your deployment. There are two of these. First is currently active and showing your site and second one is active but not showing your site, it means your site http://shawnwow.com/ which is show 404 page is connected to second deployment not with first one.

So, you need to delete your deployment. Go to your repo and open settings inside the settings there is environment section, click on it and delete.

[shellwe]

@DSDmark Yeah, I added it to the public folder in my local branch (where my index.html resides) and pushed that up to get and deployed it and it seems to have written CNAME in there again as it had a new time stamp, so I am hoping I am good.

Now I just need to figure out what is going on with google domains that shawnwow.com works, but www.shawnwow.com completely breaks.

[shellwe]

@DSDmark Thanks, yeah, that's what I did to get it to work.

Now on to find out why it breaks when I prefix it with www.

[NazarenoR]

Hey @shellwe, did you get anywhere trying to fix the www prefix issue? I have the exact same problem with my website.

At this point I'm just regretting choosing to buy the domain from Google instead of going with a more user-friendly service like GoDaddy.

[shellwe]

Yes, you just have to set a Domain forward so *.yourdomain.com redirects to http://domain.com

Here was the steps their ticket support (which actually was pretty good) gave me.

Login to domains.google.com/registrar.
Click the domain name.
Click on DNS on the left hand side menu.
Click on Manage custom records under Custom records.
Delete the CNAME record.
Click Save.
Click on Website on the left hand side menu.
Click on Add a forwarding address at the top right.
Click on the Edit button on the right side of the page.
Under Domain or subdomain put * in the space.
Click the trash bin icon on the right side of www.
Under Forward to put yourdomain.com and click on Forward.

Please note that it may take a few minutes up to a few hours for these changes to take effect. It may take up to 48 hours to take effect across the internet.

[NazarenoR]

Hi! I surprisingly found a fix in the meanwhile here...

I found this video on YouTube. Apparently if you just forward www.yourdomain.com directly to yourdomain.com isntead of user.github.io on the CNAME record it seems to work!

Your fix seems pretty stong as well and I'll definetly play around with it. I'll give a few hours to see if the fix I found will work across all browsers correctly and try yours later to see whats more consistent. Thanks for sharing the info!

[KeyderDev]

Try freenom