You have a project on gitlab with the URL myname.gitlab.io/project and would now like to redirect your subdomain www.myname.com to your project in addition to your root domain myname.com.
Quelle: GitLab Pages custom domains
Voraussetzung
You have access to the DNS entries of your domains with your web hosting service provider.
CNAME worked fine
This is not a guide, as every web host service provider uses different forms to enter the various DNS entries.
Mine uses the following values:
| Subdomain | Domain | Typ | Content |
|---|---|---|---|
| www | myname.com | CNAME | myname.gitlab.io. |
And so the CNAME entry worked immediately.
Verification by trial and error
But it took me days to complete the verification. The Gitlab documentation uses this syntax as a default and alludes to the command line level.
_gitlab-pages-verification-code.www.myname.com TXT gitlab-pages-verification-code=31e837733dd7174ada938b64
However, this example is not clear when filling in the form above. After several attempts, the following entry in the table worked.
| Subdomain | Domain | Typ | Content |
|---|---|---|---|
| _gitlab-pages-verification-code.www | myname.com | TXT | gitlab-pages-verification-code=31e837733dd7174ada938b64 |
The verification status finally turned green: Verified!
At https://dnschecker.org/ you can check whether the TXT entries are recognized. Fill in _gitlab-pages-verification-code.www.myname.com and select TXT.
