Custom domain

Github custom domain

Offical instructions

Go to the repository containing the site and move to the Settings panel. gabrieleteotino settings

Scroll down to GitHub Pages section find Custom Domain and insert or modify the domain “www.teosoft.it” and click Save

DNS configuration

Open the control panel of the site registar. Open the DNS section. Change the www CNAME to gabrieleteotino.github.io

Wait for the dns info to propagate.

To check the status of the DNS

dig www.teosoft.it +nostats +nocomments +nocmd

If dig is not istalled

sudo apt install dnsutils

Hugo configuration

Change in config.toml

baseURL = "http://www.teosoft.it/"

Note: we will change to https in the future.

Google Analytics

Open Google Analytics and find your id.

Change in config.toml in the global parameter section, just below the pygment.

googleAnalytics = "UA-24994854-1"

Google custom search engine

Create a new custom search using Google Custom Search. Add as Site to search *www.teosoft.it/** and click Create. From the setup page get the Search engine ID

Add the ID to the following line in config.toml, in the params section.

gcse = "005185449088889757369:5o44h-2knna"

In the Custom Search select Look and feel and switch to Full width, save. In Themes select classic

SSL and CDN on Cloudflare

Signup to Cloudflare.

Add www.teosoft.it, select the free plan and follow the instructions.

Change the nameservers from ns10.ovh.net, dns10.ovh.net to brett.ns.cloudflare.com, kiki.ns.cloudflare.com.

In the control panale go to Domains -> teosoft.it, select DNS servers click Modify DNS servers and change the nameservers.

Note: changes submitted at 13:05 and Cloudflare detected the changes at 17:07.

While we wait it is a good time to launch a performance test with webpagetest before Cloudflare start to serve our site.

After a few hours (at 17:07) the DNS are pointed to Clouflare servers.

Change in config.toml (restoring https)

baseURL = "https://www.teosoft.it/"

Rebuild and publish the site.

Let’s check webpagetest again.

A small consistent improvement and now we have https.