Something is wrong with our dns

[doug-wade]

Every time we deploy, I have to re-set the custom domains on settings > pages, which it doesn't seem like I should have to do. Maybe we need a CNAME file?

[doug-wade]

The CNAME does not seem to have helped

[doug-wade]

When we're having an outage, there is no CNAME file on the gh-pages branch, and updating the field adds one

[ysfchn]

Just came across this issue from Mastodon, and thought I could help!

I guess that peaceiris/actions-gh-pages GitHub Action clears out the gh-pages branch completely before starting to deploy, so I guess it won't matter if you manually add CNAME here, as it will be deleted again in the next deploy.

Instead, you should create/generate a CNAME file in the output directory (publish_dir), in this case ./packages/website/_site, so all files including the CNAME file itself will be committed to gh-pages in the next deploy.

publish_dir: ./packages/website/_site

Alternatively, there is a cname option in the action.

cname: www.tybalt.org

You can also check the other configuration options of the action, such as excluding specific files to prevent the action from deleting CNAME.

Hope this helps!

[doug-wade]

Thanks for stopping by @ysfchn -- I tried that and just had my first clean deploy! Thanks so much!

[ysfchn]

Glad I was able to help! 😄