Github pages and https
2023-01-04
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I have been using github to host my website for sometime now. I did not have it enabled for https due to the complications of setting this up. This will go through the complications of setting up https with a custom domain. I went to Enforce https and I reveceived the messge “Unavailable for your site because your domain is not properly configured to support HTTPS”. So in researching the problem I found several problems that kept me from enabling https on the domain.
The first problem I encounted was my dns a, aaaa, and cname records were not setup correctly. A records should be set to
- 185.199.108.153
- 185.199.109.153
- 185.199.110.153
- 185.199.111.153
AAAA records should be set to
- 2606:50c0:8000::153
- 2606:50c0:8001::153
- 2606:50c0:8002::153
- 2606:50c0:8003::153
CNAME records should point to either @ or
That tackles the first hurdle. The 2nd hurdle was getting the ssl certificate generated. I was getting an invalid certificate when navigating to my domain. The solution to this was to add a CAA record to my domain. This record should point to letsecnrypt.org
All information for this was pulled from this article. https://docs.github.com/en/pages/configuring-a-custom-domain-for-your-github-pages-site/managing-a-custom-domain-for-your-github-pages-site
Mitch Tuck is a technologist. He has worked in various areas around technology. He has worked as both a developer and infrastructure on networks and servers. He enjoys technology in almost all forms.