I have a digital ocean droplet that I use for my personal website and also as a playground for side projects.
It’s been working out well, but after recently migrating this blog to netlify, I decided to host the landing page for my site on GitHub Pages since its content is extremely simple (and static sites are the new hotness).
While GitHub Pages already provides a subdomain (mine is cadizm.github.io) I wanted to preserve my sweet domain name.
I’m running NGINX and decided to proxy to GitHub Pages since it seems to do pretty much what I want to do. One small caveat is that assets need to be qualified using a full url instead of being specified relatively.
Just in case anyone is trying to do the same, here’s a snippet of the relevant NGINX config:
location / {
proxy_pass https://cadizm.github.io;
proxy_set_header Host cadizm.github.io;
proxy_set_header X-Real-IP $remote_addr;
proxy_set_header X-Forwarded-For $proxy_add_x_forwarded_for;
}