Docsify: Privacy error with custom subdomain and github pages

[rentrop]

Hi everyone,

thanks for the great work you do with docsify.

Trying to host my docsify website on github (https://github.com/sapaso/sapaso.github.io) with the custom subdomain http://docs.sapaso.de results in

Your connection is not private

When hosting it "without" a custom subdomain on https:/sapaso.github.io it worked.

Following this tutorial on how to setup a CNAME with a custom subdomain, using dig i get

dig docs.sapaso.de +nostats +nocomments +nocmd

; <<>> DiG 9.8.3-P1 <<>> docs.sapaso.de +nostats +nocomments +nocmd
;; global options: +cmd
;docs.sapaso.de.            IN  A
docs.sapaso.de.     3599    IN  CNAME   sapaso.github.io.
sapaso.github.io.   3599    IN  CNAME   sni.github.map.fastly.net.
sni.github.map.fastly.net. 23   IN  A   151.101.1.147
sni.github.map.fastly.net. 23   IN  A   151.101.65.147
sni.github.map.fastly.net. 23   IN  A   151.101.129.147
sni.github.map.fastly.net. 23   IN  A   151.101.193.147

Any ideas on how to fix this?

[fgallaire]

https://help.github.com/articles/securing-your-github-pages-site-with-https/
"HTTPS is not supported for GitHub Pages using custom domains."

But seems you can do it with some DNS services:
https://blog.cloudflare.com/secure-and-fast-github-pages-with-cloudflare/

[alek13]

I think we can close this issue, since its not Docsify's issue.
@fgallaire gives a workaround link, but I think its not so really needed to use the https instead http

[nateGeorge]

It should work now. Notice you need to remove and readd your custom domain after changing the A records and setting the settings to use HTTPS: https://help.github.com/articles/troubleshooting-custom-domains/#https-errors

[priteshusadadiya]

I am having the same issue.I created the www sub-domain and and added to my repo -> settings -> custom domain name

on DNS server added A records
185.199.108.153
185.199.109.153
185.199.110.153
185.199.111.153

and i am receiving the privacy errors on https://www.priteshusadadiya.com and i am also not able to check "Lets Encrypt" checkbox on settings page.

Any idea how to solve this ?

[mayandhelder]

@priteshusadadiya how did you solve it?

[priteshusadadiya]

@mayandhelder
there was a issue with my DNS Configuration.

I was redirecting the www sub domain to apex (main). to fix this just change your dns record to yourusername.github.io

wait for couple of minutes and go to github project -> settings and save changes again for domain field.
"Lets Encrypt" checkbox will get enabled. check it

and you are done.

It might take around 48 hours for Github to generate HTTPS certificate on custom domain so, you might want to wait for it.

[mayandhelder]

Thank you @priteshusadadiya . it works now!