Github Pages: Custom domain setup with Hover

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I'm a designer trying to put up my first site on Github Pages.

Goal:

Configure my GitHub Pages user page site,willmillar.github.io, to work with Hover domain (willmillar.com or www.willmillar.com)

Current setup:

I tried to follow the GitHub documentation and added one CNAME record to my DNS setup which points www to willmillar.github.io (screenshot of DNS setup).

I also have a CNAME file in my willmillar.github.io repo root which contains www.willmillar.com

Other things I've tried:

Tried to set up an Apex domain by pointing A records to 192.30.252.153 and 192.30.252.154, as well as several other solutions posted on stackoverflow. However, I don't really know what I'm doing here.

I have been testing all of my changes with the dig command from the Github documentation. But I get the same result every time:

$ dig willmillar.com +nostats +nocomments +nocmd

; <<>> DiG 9.8.3-P1 <<>> willmillar.com +nostats +nocomments +nocmd
;; global options: +cmd
;willmillar.com.            IN  A

The domain currently doesn't work and I have been getting page build error emails from Github which say that "[my] site's CNAME record should point to your-username.github.io, but do not".

What am I doing wrong?

Thanks!

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It looks like your main issue is with the Hover DNS setup. I'm not sure of the fix there (looks correct from your screenshot, but dig www.willmillar.com +nostats +nocomments +nocmd isn't showing the expected output. A secondary issue may be with GitHub Pages not building correctly. You should add a .gitignore file to exclude the generated _site folder. – nicksuch
@nicksuch, you are spot on. I talked to Hover suport, and they pointed out that my nameservers were still pointing to old GoDaddy nameservers from when I transferred the domain. I didn't think to check there! After changing back to Hover nameservers, everything is working correctly. Thanks for your help! – user3602635
Please post your solution as an answer and mark it as accepted. This helps users with similar problems to find your solution. – Nick McCurdy

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nicksuch was right. It turned out the nameservers records were still pointing to the old ones.

OP's reply in the comment:

@nicksuch you are spot on. I talked to Hover suport, and they pointed out that my nameservers were still pointing to old GoDaddy nameservers from when I transferred the domain. I didn't think to check there! After changing back to Hover nameservers, everything is working correctly. Thanks for your help!

Problem solved.