I've registered a domain with qhoster.com (foo.com) and I want to link it to my GitHubPages webpage. I've followed the GithubPages guide about this and I don’t manage to make it work.
When I go to the domain management page of qhoster I find two relevant configuration pages:
a) Nameservers. They are configured by default like this:
Nameserver 1: [ ns1.qhoster.net ]
Nameserver 2: [ ns2.qhoster.net ]
Nameserver 3: [ ns3.qhoster.net ]
Nameserver 4: [ ns4.qhoster.net ]
b) DNS Management: the default values are as follows:
Host Name | Record Type | Address | Priority
--------------------------------------------------------------------------------
[ ] | [ A (Address) ] | [ 107.161.23.204 ] | N/A
[ ] | [ A (Address) ] | [ 192.161.187.200 ] | N/A
[ ] | [ A (Address) ] | [ 209.141.38.71 ] | N/A
[ www ] | [ CNAME (Alias) ] | [ parking.namesilo.com ] | N/A
[ ] | [ ] | [ ] | [ ]
I don't really understand where do those IP addresses come from, but my hope was that they would disappear or they wouldn't matter when I set up the domain to simply be a redirection to http://mygithubusername.github.io/.
Possible values for Record Type field (combobox) are:
- A (Address)
- List item
- AAAA (Address)
- MXE (Mail Easy)
- MX (Mail)
- CNAME (Alias)
- SPF (txt)
- URL Redirect
- URL Frame
- List item
When I choose “URL Redirect” or “URL Frame”, it only lets me add two possible values in the Host Name field: http or https (leaving it empty is not valid).
So I’ve tried putting filling the row like this:
[ http ] | [ URL Redirect ] | [ http://mygithubusername.github.io ] | [ ]
For setting up GithubPages I created a repo called “https://github.com/mygithubusername/mygithubusername.github.io” and from its settings, I fill the “Custom domain” section with foo.com, and I don’t check the “Enforce HTTPS option”.
The result of this is that when I direct my browser to http://mygithubusername.github.io/ or foo.com it wrongly redirects me to http//mygithubusername.github.io/, which obviously doesn’t work.
What's the secret sauce here? Here are the responses from nslookup:
$ nslookup mygithubusername.github.io
Server: 192.168.43.1
Address: 192.168.43.1#53
Non-authoritative answer:
Name: mygithubusername.github.io
Address: 185.199.109.153
Name: mygithubusername.github.io
Address: 185.199.111.153
Name: mygithubusername.github.io
Address: 185.199.110.153
Name: mygithubusername.github.io
Address: 185.199.108.153
$ nslookup foo.com
Server: 192.168.43.1
Address: 192.168.43.1#53
Non-authoritative answer:
Name: foo.com
Address: 192.161.187.200
Name: foo.com
Address: 209.141.38.71
Name: foo.com
Address: 107.161.23.204
The only thing good that I see above is that the first address (not the "non-authoritative" ones) matches!
