Custom domain for github pages site only works for home page #23217

walkermoskop · 2021-01-08T19:59:25Z

walkermoskop
Jan 8, 2021

I’m pointing a domain originally set up through squarespace to my github pages site, and it works as expected for the homepage, walkermoskop.com, but all other pages lead to a 404 error. When running dig walkermoskop.com/about from the command line, I can see that unlike the home page, it’s not using the github pages IP addresses (I assume it’s using squarespace or an affiliated IP). Any ideas on how to address this? Or is this more of a squarespace issue? FWIW, within the squarespace advanced DNS settings, I added the following entries.

(Apologies for not linking the repo, which can be found through my profile, but as a new user I can’t post more than two links.)

Thanks in advance for any suggestions.

Answered by AlfredoRamos

Jan 9, 2021

You need to remove the # from the pages in the include, in your _config.yml file

github.com

walkermoskop/walkermoskop.github.io/blob/e70ff6cecba2194bafae209c3299cab660ddfd90/_config.yml#L35


# Build settings
markdown: kramdown
remote_theme: mmistakes/minimal-mistakes
# Outputting
permalink: /:categories/:title/
# paginate: 5 # amount of posts to show
# paginate_path: /page:num/
timezone: # https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_tz_database_time_zones


include:
  # - _pages


# Exclude from processing.
# The following items will not be processed, by default. Create a custom list
# to override the default setting.
# exclude:
#   - Gemfile
#   - Gemfile.lock
#   - node_modules
#   - vendor/bun…

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AlfredoRamos · 2021-01-09T03:40:09Z

AlfredoRamos
Jan 9, 2021

You need to remove the # from the pages in the include, in your _config.yml file

github.com

walkermoskop/walkermoskop.github.io/blob/e70ff6cecba2194bafae209c3299cab660ddfd90/_config.yml#L35


# Build settings
markdown: kramdown
remote_theme: mmistakes/minimal-mistakes
# Outputting
permalink: /:categories/:title/
# paginate: 5 # amount of posts to show
# paginate_path: /page:num/
timezone: # https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_tz_database_time_zones

include:
  # - _pages

# Exclude from processing.
# The following items will not be processed, by default. Create a custom list
# to override the default setting.
# exclude:
#   - Gemfile
#   - Gemfile.lock
#   - node_modules
#   - vendor/bundle/
#   - vendor/cache/

Should be:

include:
  - _pages

More information specific for your theme:

Minimal Mistakes

Working with Pages

Suggestions and Front Matter defaults for working with pages.

You could also follow the standard way of creating pages by moving those pages in your root directory, however I’m not sure if some changes would be required for the theme you are using.

Jekyll • Simple, blog-aware, static sites – 7 Jan 21

Pages

Pages are the most basic building block for content. They’re useful for standalone content (content which is not date based or is not a group of content such as staff members or recipes).

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walkermoskop · 2021-01-09T15:08:44Z

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Jan 9, 2021
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Thank you! That did it.

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