Set custom domain for user and project pages - github-pages

I would like do something like:
mydomain.tld (apex) redirect on www (user page)
www.mydomain.tld (www custom) on user page
myproject1.mydomain.tld (custom) on project page
Actually I've a DNS zone like:
# 10800 IN A 192.30.252.153
# 10800 IN A 192.30.252.154
www 1800 IN CNAME user.github.io.
But, I don't know how to add a custom domain for project pages, because I can't do a CNAME on user.github.io/myproject1...
In Github, I've set:
user.github.io repo: www.mydomain.tld
myproject1 repo: myproject1.mydomain.tld
Actually it works for www.mydomain.tld, I think it's okay for mydomain.tld too (just wait propagation). But I don't know how to do for projects pages.

In Github:
Define the domain you want to use:
In user.github.io repository, define the: www.mydomain.tld
In projects repository, define: project.mydomain.tld
In the DNS zone file:
# 1800 IN A 192.30.252.153
# 1800 IN A 192.30.252.154
project 1800 IN CNAME user.github.io.
www 1800 IN CNAME user.github.io.
In the configuration, we use CNAME to define subdomains, and the A on IPs: 192.30.252.153 and 192.30.252.154 to define the apex.
Then:
www.mydomain.tld serve the user.github.io pages
mydomain.tld redirect on www.mydomain.tld (alias)
project.mydomain.tld serve the user.github.io/project pages
Because apex is define, we also can do:
project 1800 IN CNAME #

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Use GitHub Pages domain for a Netlify site

I would like to build a Netlify (or perhaps a Zeit Now) site.
Despite the extra feaures of Netlify and Zeit, I find GitHub pages foo.github.io domain name more catchy than foo.netlify.com.
I see that GitHub allows to use a custom domain, so that you can point your example.com domain to your GitHub pages.
Is the reverse possible? That is, I'd like using foo.github.io as the domain name for the site stored at foo.netlify.com.
Because you do now own the domain github.io (and by extension, the domain foo.github.io) this is not feasible.
To add a custom domain to Netlify, you need to point a CNAME to your-random-string-url.netlify.com (via DNS).
GitHub allows you to redirect a domain, but this will rewrite the url in the browser - which is not what you want.
I would recommend investing in your own domain name, and point it to whichever service you end up using. You will then not be locked into any service in the future.

GitHub Pages and Google Domain Setup - Have to type https:// before www version of domain

I am using GitHub Pages to host a static website and ALMOST everything is working. Below is my configuration:
GitHub Pages:
Source: "gh-pages branch"
index.html in root of gh-pages branch
CNAME file in root of gh-pages branch with "example.com" and "www.example.com" as the contents (each on a separate line)
Settings -> Custom Domain: "example.com"
HTTPS Enabled
Google Domains DNS Settings:
Custom Resource Records:
Name:"#", Type:"A", Data:"185.199.108.153, 185.199.109.153, 185.199.110.153, 185.199.111.153"
Name:"www", Type:"CNAME", Data:"myusername.github.io"
Results:
typing "example.com" routes me to "https://example.com" and all is well
typing "https://www.example.com" routes me to "https://example.com" and all is well
typing "www.example.com" routes me to "https://example.com/dist/dist/dist/dist/dist/dist/dist/dist/dist/dist/" and yields a 404 Error from GitHub Status
I'm new to this game, so any help would be greatly appreciated.
For anyone who has read and spent any time thinking about this, I apologize. I'm still not sure what was going on with Chrome on my PC, but after clearing my cookies and browsing history, typing in "www.example.com" correctly redirects me to "https://example.com".

Static site with netlify + Django on the same url

Let's assume I own the domain:
foobar.com/
I want to use Netlify for my static pages like
foobar.com/features/
foobar.com/pricing/
foobar.com/imprint/
etc.
But I also have a Django application on a seperate server on AWS that has nothing to do with the static sites served by Netlify.
My Django has urls like
foobar.com/login/
foobar.com/dashboard/
etc.
Is it possible to use Netlify for a few static pages and my Django application for other pages?
I don't know how start or if this is event possible.
It will depend on how your Django apps handle the target, but you could use rewrites on Netlify using the HTTP status code 200 with a redirect rule (rewrite).
If the API supports standard HTTP caching mechanisms like Etags or Last-Modified headers, the responses will even get cached by CDN nodes.
Have DNS set foobar.com to the Netlify site.
Decide the domain for the Django site on AWS. (proxy.foobar.com)
Setup _redirects at the root of the Netlify site to use Proxy (rewrites) on Netlify
/login/* https://proxy.foobar.com/login/:splat 200
/dashboard/* https://proxy.foobar.com/dashboard/:splat 200
Note: This is how you can incrementally switch a site over to Netlify without having to refactor a site all at once.
When you set a DNS record (e.g. an A record), you can point foobar.com to your AWS server or netlify, but not both.
Perhaps you can put the sites on different domains, for example dashboard.foobar.com for your Django site.
You could then configure netlify to redirect foobar.com/dashboard/ to dashboard.foobar.com/dashboard/
No, you can't have a foobar.com point to two different servers. You'll have to use subdomains, e.g.:
static.foobar.com -> DNS entry for Netlify
app.foobar.com -> DNS entry for your Django server
or, what you often see, is:
foobar.com and www.foobar.com -> DNS pointing to your main website (Netlify)
api.foobar.com and app.foobar.com -> DNS pointing to your Django app

How to redirect non-www domain.com to www domain.com(WordPress blog) in AWS Route 53?

I have my non-www domain.com with GoDaddy and my WordPress Blog is hosted in AWS EC2. I'm using Route 53 to handle DNS requests. The existing solution for my question, seen in many places(including SOF) is to create two S3 buckets in the name of non-www domain and www domain for redirection of static websites. This is not my case.
I've my WordPress installed in EC2 and not using S3 for holding my Data. I hope this is not a static website and cannot follow the general solutions available.
I tried the following solution around and did not work
I tried changing the C-NAME record to www.domain.com but it did not worked.
I tried domain forward feature available with GoDaddy.com and didn't work.
I tried modifying .htaccess file and that too didn't work.
This is what my record sets in Route 53 look like
Name Type Value TTL
------ ----- ----- ----
domain.com. A xx.xx.xxx.xxx (EIP) 300
domain.com. MX 1 ASPMX.L.GOOGLE.COM 3600
5 ALT1.ASPMX.L.GOOGLE.COM
5 ALT2.ASPMX.L.GOOGLE.COM
10 ALT3.ASPMX.L.GOOGLE.COM
10 ALT4.ASPMX.L.GOOGLE.COM
domain.com. NS ns-27.awsdns-03.com. 172800
ns-1190.awsdns-20.org.
ns-2028.awsdns-61.co.uk.
ns-855.awsdns-42.net.
domain.com. SOA xxxxxxxxx 900
How can I redirect my domain.com to www.domain.com?
I was hesitant to post my comment as an answer because there are a gazillion ways to setup and configure Wordpress it seems. Anyway, to keep in the spirit of keeping this question in the amazon-web-services tag I ran a test case deploying from the AWS Wordpress Cloudformation template. I'm not sure if this is how you actually installed Wordpress but here is one way to redirect:
Make sure that your Cloudformation template completes successfully.
Here is what my Hosted Zone looked like - I have not added A records yet.
Get the instance IP address. Note that in this example I did not setup an Elastic IP. Since I knew that I would not need to stop the instance temporarily I opted to just stick with the automatically assigned, random pubic IP.
Next I made an A record for the domain apex of that IP and then an A record for www. I also changed the TTL to 60 seconds.
Once DNS propagation completed I tried accessing my domain name. As you can see, the AWS Cloudformation Wordpress installation defaults to a different path and URL.
Using the URL, http://example.com/wordpress did the trick.
I didn't go through the steps but when you go to http://example.com/wordpress it starts a setup screen. Enter all the information like DB name and password, etc. and then login to the admin panel. Once you go through all of that you go to the General settings screen. This is where your configuration will probably be different but for mine, the URLs were listed as http://example.com/wordpress. I simply changed these URLs to http://www.example.com/wordpress. (As an aside, I also tried changing and saving the permalink section to generate an .htaccess file but one was not generated due to the inability to write to the file. I tried making my own but I kept running into "too many redirect" messages so this might not be a route you want to take depending on your install.)
You will need to make a change in the index.php file. For my installation it was located at /var/www/html/wordpress/index.php. Make sure to make a copy before changing it. I simply added /wordpress/ in front of wp-blog-header.php. Again, this install puts the Wordpress files in the directory /wordpress - your install will probably be different.
Next you need to copy that modified index.php file to /var/www/html/ and then restart the httpd service.
To test the change I cleared out my DNS cache and opened up the network section of developer tools in Chrome.
I then opened a new tab (have to open developer tools again) and then typed in the naked domain name.
As you can see, the URL redirected to www.example.com with a 301 permanent redirect.
I'll through another suggestion out here while I'm at it. You can use the free version of Cloudflare to just do the redirect for you. Cloudflare offers a bunch of other free and useful services like CDN so if you don't mind depending on a 3rd party service (a reputable one by the way) it might be easier with more value add. As I highlighted in the screenshot however, note that if you use forwarding you cannot use some of the other advanced rule sets.
Anyway, I hope this helps!

Wordpress plugin for independent self-hosted CDN

I'm trying to set a cookieless subdomain to serve static content of my wordpress website. So I've tried self-hosted CDN solutions using WP SuperCache or W3 Total Cache plugin.
My wordpress is on the domain aljazair24.com and my CDN domain is static1.aljazair24.com. The domain and subdomain point to the same apache directory (/home/username/public_html).
Although WP SuperCache and W3TC plugins allow to set cookie domain to aljazair24.com, the subdomain static1.aljazair24.com still sends cookies to browsers...
I've tried to set cookie domain to www.aljazair24.com in order to avoid this but it doesn't work, since all www urls are redirected to non-www ones...
I was desperately looking for any WP plugin allowing to make "real" mirror resources, all this in order to avoid any interference at htaccess level. Unfortunately I didn't find anything ...
What should I do to make subdomain static1.aljazair24.com cookie-free ?
Page speed tests using YSlow
Grade F on Use cookie-free domains
There are 82 components that are not cookie-free
http://static1.aljazair24.com/wp-content/plugins/ajax-load-more/core/js/ajax-load-more.min.js
http://static1.aljazair24.com/wp-content/themes/aljazair/inc/js/flexslider.min.js
http://static1.aljazair24.com/wp-content/plugins/wysija-newsletters/js/validate/languages/jquery.validationEngine-ar.js
http://static1.aljazair24.com/wp-content/plugins/wysija-newsletters/js/front-subscribers.js
...
Have you tried Cloudflare? Most hosting providers have a built in extension and you dont have go through plugins like WP SuperCache or W3 Total Cache.