Github Page with Route 53 Address
Intro
I quite often started a new project and wanted a custom domain rather than a domain start with github.com. I’ve been using Amazon Web Services (AWS) for a while. I used to host my blog using Amazon S3. And now since everything is free with Github Page, I move the whole blog to Github Page immediately. And route 53 still provide a pretty cheap domain name with $12/year. It seems logical to combine these two together. Hosting pages on Github pages and using AWS route 53 name services.
Steps
First, register a domain name with route 53. Or If you don’t have a AWS account just get one. And it offers wonderful free tier services.
Second, in your route 53 dashboard, click hosted zones. It will provide you with a list of domain names you have with route 53. And then click the domain names you just created. Create an A type of record set. This will be your yourdomain.com rule. Keep everything the same. And add 192.30.252.153 and 192.30.252.154 in IPv4 address box. And save the record set.
Third, create another A type of record set. And this will be your www.yourdomian.com rule. And it will be an alias for yourdomian.com. Choose alias on the dashboard, from dropdown menu, choose yourdomain.com. Save the record set.
Last, go back to Github repository and create a file name CNAME and put in yourdomian.com in that file and save.
And that’s it. You can visit your Github page from the domain name you get from AWS route 53 services.