https redirect with custom domain on github pages and cloudflare

[wAuner]

Description

• hosting: github pages, private repo
• custom domain
• domain is routed through cloudflare, to enable https for github+custom domain roughly based on this post
• domain in _config.yml: url : https://winfriedauner.de

It almost works as expected. However, when I type winfriedauner.de I get the website without https. Once I click on any section in the navigation, https works. When I try to activate a redirection in cloudflare (as suggested by cloudflare and other tutorials) of http://winfriedauner.de to the https version, I get an error of too many redirections and the site doesn't load.

Is there something else I need to adapt?
Thanks!

Environment

• Minimal Mistakes version: updated today, so 4.11.1 I believe
• Ruby gem or remote theme version: remote theme
• Jekyll version: github
• Git repository URL: private repo
• Operating system: Linux Mint
• GitHub Pages hosted (if yes provide URL to site):

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[justinrummel]

I don't think Cloudflare is setup correctly. I can still access http://winfriedauner.de/about/ without getting a 301 redirect to the HTTPS version.

jrummel@res-mpiff ~> curl -sI "http://winfriedauner.de/cv/" | grep "HTTP/\|Location"
HTTP/1.1 200 OK

I don't see your MM repo on your GitHub account, so can't review your _config.yml either. I self host, but run my site through cloudflare and everything is forced as HTTPS.

[wAuner]

@justinrummel thanks for your reply. That's right, I had to disable all redirections, because it either prevented the site from being rendered properly or it didn't load at all because of too many redirects.

That's what I don't understand. Every tutorial I've read wanted me to set up redirects, but that doesn't work.

Below is the content of my _config.yaml

# Welcome to Jekyll!
#
# This config file is meant for settings that affect your entire site, values
# which you are expected to set up once and rarely need to edit after that.
# For technical reasons, this file is *NOT* reloaded automatically when you use
# `jekyll serve`. If you change this file, please restart the server process.

minimal_mistakes_skin    : "air" # "air", "aqua", "contrast", "dark", "dirt", "neon", "mint", "plum", "sunrise"
remote_theme             : "mmistakes/minimal-mistakes"
# Site Settings
locale                   : "en"
title                    : "Machine Learning, Computer Vision and Robotics Projects by Winfried Auner."
title_separator          : "-"
name                     : &name "Winfried Auner"
description              : &description "Winfried Auner's profile website with descriptions of my most recent projects, mostly in Python and C++."
url                      : https://winfriedauner.de # the base hostname & protocol for your site e.g. "https://mmistakes.github.io"
baseurl                  : "" # the subpath of your site, e.g. "/blog"
repository               : "wAuner/wAuner.github.io" # GitHub username/repo-name e.g. "mmistakes/minimal-mistakes"
teaser                   : # path of fallback teaser image, e.g. "/assets/images/500x300.png"
# breadcrumbs            : false # true, false (default)
words_per_minute         : 200
comments:
  provider               : # false (default), "disqus", "discourse", "facebook", "google-plus", "staticman", "staticman_v2" "custom"
  disqus:
    shortname            : # https://help.disqus.com/customer/portal/articles/466208-what-s-a-shortname-
  discourse:
    server               : # https://meta.discourse.org/t/embedding-discourse-comments-via-javascript/31963 , e.g.: meta.discourse.org
  facebook:
    # https://developers.facebook.com/docs/plugins/comments
    appid                :
    num_posts            : # 5 (default)
    colorscheme          : # "light" (default), "dark"
staticman:
  allowedFields          : # ['name', 'email', 'url', 'message']
  branch                 : # "master"
  commitMessage          : # "New comment."
  filename               : # comment-{@timestamp}
  format                 : # "yml"
  moderation             : # true
  path                   : # "/_data/comments/{options.slug}" (default)
  requiredFields         : # ['name', 'email', 'message']
  transforms:
    email                : # "md5"
  generatedFields:
    date:
      type               : # "date"
      options:
        format           : # "iso8601" (default), "timestamp-seconds", "timestamp-milliseconds"
reCaptcha:
  siteKey                :
  secret                 :
atom_feed:
  path                   : # blank (default) uses feed.xml

# SEO Related
google_site_verification :
bing_site_verification   :
yandex_site_verification :
naver_site_verification  :

# Social Sharing
twitter:
  username               : &twitter "Mimi_Auner"
facebook:
  username               :
  app_id                 :
  publisher              :
og_image                 : # Open Graph/Twitter default site image
# For specifying social profiles
# - https://developers.google.com/structured-data/customize/social-profiles
social:
  type                   : # Person or Organization (defaults to Person)
  name                   : # If the user or organization name differs from the site's name
  links: # An array of links to social media profiles

# Analytics
analytics:
  provider               : google # false (default), "google", "google-universal", "custom"
  google:
    tracking_id          : UA-110945871-1


# Site Author
author:
  name             : *name
  avatar           : "images/profil.jpg"    # path of avatar image, e.g. "/assets/images/bio-photo.jpg"
  bio              : "Machine Learning, <br/>Computer Vision & Robotics"
  location         : "Germany"
  email            : "[email protected]"
  uri              :
  bitbucket        :
  codepen          :
  dribbble         :
  flickr           :
  facebook         :
  foursquare       :
  github           : "wAuner"
  gitlab           :
  google_plus      :
  keybase          :
  instagram        :
  lastfm           :
  linkedin         : # "john-doe-12345678" (the last part of your profile url, e.g. https://www.linkedin.com/in/john-doe-12345678)
  pinterest        :
  soundcloud       :
  stackoverflow    : # "123456/username" (the last part of your profile url, e.g. https://stackoverflow.com/users/123456/username)
  steam            : # "steamId" (the last part of your profile url, e.g. https://steamcommunity.com/id/steamId/)
  tumblr           :
  twitter          : *twitter
  vine             :
  weibo            :
  xing             :
  youtube          : # "https://youtube.com/c/MichaelRoseDesign"


# Reading Files
include:
  - .htaccess
  - _pages
exclude:
  - "*.sublime-project"
  - "*.sublime-workspace"
  - vendor
  - .asset-cache
  - .bundle
  - .jekyll-assets-cache
  - .sass-cache
  - assets/js/plugins
  - assets/js/_main.js
  - assets/js/vendor
  - Capfile
  - CHANGELOG
  - config
  - Gemfile
  - Gruntfile.js
  - gulpfile.js
  - LICENSE
  - log
  - node_modules
  - package.json
  - Rakefile
  - README
  - tmp
  - /docs # ignore Minimal Mistakes /docs
  - /test # ignore Minimal Mistakes /test
  - _projects/drafts
keep_files:
  - .git
  - .svn
encoding: "utf-8"
markdown_ext: "markdown,mkdown,mkdn,mkd,md"


# Conversion
markdown: kramdown
highlighter: rouge
lsi: false
excerpt_separator: "\n\n"
incremental: false


# Markdown Processing
kramdown:
  input: GFM
  hard_wrap: false
  auto_ids: true
  footnote_nr: 1
  entity_output: as_char
  toc_levels: 1..6
  smart_quotes: lsquo,rsquo,ldquo,rdquo
  enable_coderay: false

# Collections
collections:
  projects:
    output: true
    permalink: /:collection/:path/

# Defaults
defaults:
  # _pages
  - scope:
      path: ""
      type: pages
    values:
      layout: single
      author_profile: true
  # projects
  - scope:
      path: ""
      type: projects
    values:
      layout: single
      author_profile: false
      share: true
      header: 
        overlay_color: "#5e616c"
        overlay_image: /images/home/header1_small.jpeg
        cta_label: 
        cta_url: 
        caption:
      toc: true
      sidebar:
        nav: "cat"



# Sass/SCSS
sass:
  sass_dir: _sass
  style: compressed # http://sass-lang.com/documentation/file.SASS_REFERENCE.html#output_style


# Outputting
permalink: /:categories/:title/
#paginate: 5 # amount of posts to show
#paginate_path: /page:num/
timezone: Europe/Berlin # https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_tz_database_time_zones


# Plugins (previously gems:)
plugins:
  - jekyll-paginate
  - jekyll-sitemap
  - jekyll-gist
  - jekyll-feed
  - jemoji

# mimic GitHub Pages with --safe
whitelist:
  - jekyll-paginate
  - jekyll-sitemap
  - jekyll-gist
  - jekyll-feed
  - jemoji


# Archives
#  Type
#  - GitHub Pages compatible archive pages built with Liquid ~> type: liquid (default)
#  - Jekyll Archives plugin archive pages ~> type: jekyll-archives
#  Path (examples)
#  - Archive page should exist at path when using Liquid method or you can
#    expect broken links (especially with breadcrumbs enabled)
#  - <base_path>/tags/my-awesome-tag/index.html ~> path: /tags/
#  - <base_path/categories/my-awesome-category/index.html ~> path: /categories/
#  - <base_path/my-awesome-category/index.html ~> path: /
category_archive:
  type: liquid
  path: /categories/
tag_archive:
  type: liquid
  path: /tags/
# https://github.com/jekyll/jekyll-archives
# jekyll-archives:
#   enabled:
#     - categories
#     - tags
#   layouts:
#     category: archive-taxonomy
#     tag: archive-taxonomy
#   permalinks:
#     category: /categories/:name/
#     tag: /tags/:name/


# HTML Compression
# - http://jch.penibelst.de/
compress_html:
  clippings: all
  ignore:
    envs: development


# Defaults
#defaults:
  # _posts
#  - scope:
#      path: ""
#      type: posts
#    values:
##      layout: single
#      author_profile: true
##      read_time: true
#      comments: # true
 #     share: true
#      related: true

[mmistakes]

@wAuner I would suggest you open up your question to the larger Jekyll community to see if others have had success integrating GitHub Pages with Cloudflare.

This has little to do with Jekyll... and even less with the theme. It's purely a hosting thing. You could try asking on Jekyll Talk, but likely would have greater success with Stackoverflow.

[wAuner]

@mmistakes the problem is that no one else seem to have this problem. Everyone else is just able to set up redirects and it works. Others don't seem to have this problem with Jekyll. However, my site doesn't render correctly or isn't available. That's why I thought it might be due to the theme I use.

[tony-ho]

@wAuner Were you trying to redirect to HTTPS using Cloudflare Page Rules? I suspect you may have had conflicting rules, which caused the redirect loop.

The easiest way to force HTTPS site-wide is turn on Always Use HTTPS in the Crypto section of the Cloudflare Dashboard:
https://blog.cloudflare.com/how-to-make-your-site-https-only/

This is how my (previously Minimal Mistakes) GitHub Pages with Cloudflare site is set up.

[wAuner]

@tony-ho hey tony, thanks. I was certain I tested that already, but probably not without deactivating all the rules at the same time. It seems to work now. I've deactivated all redirections in cloudflare and just activated "always use https". Thank you!
I also deactivated the "remote theme" option again. This caused issues when I was testing offline and doesn't seem to make any difference when I host it on github.
Thanks @everyone for your help!