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Using GitHub Pages with a custom domain: Namecheap Edition

As often happens, I found the official documentation and forum answers to be "close, but no cigar", and so had to experiment a little to get things working.

The main problem for me was a lack of concrete configuration examples. That's not entirely GitHub's fault: having migrated from Google Domains to Namecheap in the middle of this project, I was once again reminded of how many different ways there are to do things in the name service universe [1].

Although you'd think the simplest setup would be to merely configure for the subdomain case (https://www.example.com), in my experience using the apex domain (https://example.com) instead resulted in fewer complications.

Procedure

So here's my recipe for using a custom domain with GitHub pages where Namecheap is the DNS provider:

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Edit: This list is now maintained in the rust-anthology repo.

• Introduction
  • Understanding Over Guesswork
  • An Alternative Introduction to Rust
  • Rust and CSV Parsing
• Ownership
  • Where Rust Really Shines
  • Rust Means Never Having to Close a Socket
• The Problem with Single-threaded Shared Mutability