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GitHub pages with GoDaddy custom domain

When I was setting up this blog using Dnevnik static site generator on GitHub Pages, I wanted to configure it to use my cyberdot.co.uk domain name.

My domain registrar is GoDaddy.

It turned out to be quite easy to do and here are the steps:

  1. Create a file named CNAME (it has to be in upper case) and save it in your generated web log root directory.

    CNAME file

  2. Open CNAME file with your favourite text editor and type in your domain name (in my case it was cyberdot.co.uk )

  3. Don’t forget to commit your file to git and then deploy your generated blog to GitHub.

  4. Log in to your GoDaddy account, open “Domain details” page and click on “DNS Zone file” t ...»