No longer publishing to custom url

[RASCampbell]

Yesterday I updated the Data Clinic.qmds on the UCL HAL github (only changed wording of the qmd files, nil else). Pull request preview looked fine. This morning I re-ran the “Quarto Publish” and “pages-build-deployment” workflows to update the website with the changes. These seemed to work and the website has been updated.

However, the website now only seems to be visible at https://uclhal.github.io/uclhal/ rather than our custom url https://uclhal.org/?

I’ve checked the “_quarto.yml” script (the CNAME script) on the main branch of the repo. It is unchanged and still contains the correct site-url option - but some some reason now doesn’t seem to be publishing to the custom URL?

Only possibility I can see is that in Settings/Pages/Build & Deployment and “publish.yml” file in main/.github/workflows, the target seems to be the gh-pages branch rather than the main branch. The gh-pages branch does not have the “_quarto.yml”.

Has anyone got any ideas of why this may be happening? I was tempted to try changing the target of the Settings and the publish.yml file to the main branch - but I don't want to mess it up any further!

[dan-hanlon]

There isn't a CNAME file in the root of the repo, which according to the docs there should be. The CNAME file exists in the repo used as a template for this one, so maybe we should try add it.

[dan-hanlon]

Above PR fixes the issue for uclhal.org, but not www.uclhal.org. I think the DNS is misconfigured but we can't fix that here.

[RASCampbell]

Fab - thanks Dan!

Even if it does not work for www.uclhal.org, when you google "UCL HAL" the address that pops up is uclhal.org (same as it used to) -> so it still works ok for people trying to find us