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Set up your URL

GitHub Pages gives you a few options for where your live site appears:

{% tabs %} {% tab title="Custom Domain (recommended)" %} Example URL:
your-custom-domain.com


Purchasing a custom domain is highly recommended. It looks professional, it's easier to remember and type, and it's easy and cheap to set up (.coms are usually only about $10 per year).

To set this up, follow the instructions here. In summary:

  1. Purchase a domain name from a reputable service.
  2. Point your domain name provider to GitHub Pages using an A record. This is slightly different for each provider; they should have their own instructions on how to do it.
  3. Set the custom domain field in your repo's "⚙️ Settings". {% endtab %}

{% tab title="User/org Site" %} Example URL:
your-lab.github.io


...where your-lab is your GitHub user/organization name

To set this up, rename your repo to your-lab.github.io in your repo "⚙️ Settings", and that's it! {% endtab %}

{% tab title="Project site (default)" %} Example URL:
your-lab.github.io/your-lab-website


...where your-lab is your GitHub user/organization name, and your-lab-website is the repo name you chose.

This is where your live site appears by default when you enable GitHub Pages. {% endtab %} {% endtabs %}

After making any needed changes above, wait a bit (~30 seconds to 3 minutes) for your live site to redeploy to its new location. (You can check your repo's "▶️ Actions" for status.)