Build Journal

Domain Name

• bought carolineandcody.com from Google Domains
• added a CNAME (canonical name record) file to the repo (the gh-pages branch). A CNAME file is a resource record in DNS which specifies a domain name as an alias for another domain (the canonical domain). Always points to a domain name, never an IP. I think this makes the github URL an alias for the domain I bought which in turn (see below) fetches content from github.
• Set up custom resource records in Google Domains to point the domain at the webserver.
• Apparently takes anywhere between 1 and 48 hours for changes to be reflected.
• http://www.carolineandcody.com
• http://carolineandcody.com
• https://ccann.github.io/hitched/ should redirect

The Google Domains should be set up as follows:

www    CNAME    1h    ccann.github.io     (it will add a trailing period)
@      A        1h    192.30.252.154
                      192.30.252.153      (Github IPs)

even though the project url is ccann.github.io/hitched, the path is unnecessary as the CNAME file should handle it.

Resources

• https://medium.com/@Tnylnc/tnylnc-how-to-set-up-github-pages-with-google-domains-83bd5a4fbc5c
• https://medium.com/employbl/launch-a-website-with-a-custom-url-using-github-pages-and-google-domains-3dd8d90cc33b
• https://medium.com/@jeauxcal/so-you-bought-a-google-domain-name-now-what-5fd72dffe370
• http://blog.dnedveck.com/google-domains/github/github-pages/2016/01/10/GitHub-Pages-and-Google-Domains.html

Deploying

on branch gh-pages:

lein do clean, cljsbuild once min
cp -r resources/public/images . && cp -r resources/public/css . && cp -r target/pages/resources/public/js/ js/

Development

on master:

lein figwheel