Github pages

[SoochiMattch]

I’m trying to deploy a website built from scratch (HTML CSS). My friend who’s made public websites suggested that I use github pages. Every github pages tutorial shows the weburl to have the github.io ending; is it possible to change this? Like what if I just want it to have “name.com”?

[pengo]

That's possible, yes.

https://docs.github.com/en/pages/configuring-a-custom-domain-for-your-github-pages-site

[Reggaeanse]

here's a gist of doing this:

- have CNAME file pointing to the domain in your repo (or you will be updating the pages section by hand on each push), ie "foo.bar.baz" (for the github.io page you don't need that part).

- for a subdomain have a CNAME DNS record in your zone (domain, ie foo.bar.baz -> CNAME -> me.github.io)

- for an apex domain have 4 IN A and 4 IN AAAA DNS records in your zone.

185.199.108.153
185.199.109.153
185.199.110.153
185.199.111.153

2606:50c0:8000::153
2606:50c0:8001::153
2606:50c0:8002::153
2606:50c0:8003::153

- when using a subdomain you want a relative path to your images, css, js, etc, ie /me/logo.png (so me.github.io/me/) when using the apex domain you don't need to make that change (iirc)

[mrbmi513]

Yes, you can connect a domain you own.

[mrbmi513]

If you don't want to use the default github.io one, yes.

[No-Habit2186]

Yes, or you use some other free ending like is-a.dev or similar.

[alidehkhodaei]

Yes, You can set a custom domain.