Troubleshooting your lorebooks.wiki subdomain

Here are some troubleshooting documentation to frequently asked questions regarding errors you may experience about your subdomain.

General

CNAME values require a trailing dot

This is DNS by design for the uninitiated, as prompted by this octoDNS error on the CI test logs for pipenv run dns-dryrun. To fix it, just add the trailing dot into the value of your DNS record.

My DNS record updates got merged, but why it is still not yet propagated?

There's a possibility that the merge-records script is having a hiccup (e.g. either on octoDNS or Cloudflare API side) or GitHub Actions is experiencing issues at the moment. It will run again on next commit to the dns/partials directory unless manually triggered by an maintainer or someone with access to the secrets via Doppler CLI.

GitHub Pages

I got a error that says I need to verify my subdomain in order to use it as custom domain.

Error message: You must verify your domain your-domain-here.lorebooks.wiki before being able to use it. Check out https://docs.github.com/pages/configuring-a-custom-domain-for-your-github-pages-site/verifying-your-custom-domain-for-github-pages for more information.

To prevent abuse, we verified beta.lorebooks.wiki and lorebooks.wiki to the @lorebooks-wiki GitHub organization, which requires you to do this.

If you want to use GitHub Pages, you need to verify your lorebooks.wiki subdomain against your GitHub account or organization first. (see example config)