Unable to verify GitHub-hosted Jekyll site because "we were redirected too many times"

[andrewdillonpoetry]

Issue

Unable to verify my personal website for Brave Creators.

I built my website with Jekyll static site generator using the Minima theme. The site is hosted on GitHub Pages.

Technical details

OS: Mac OS 12.3.1 (M1)
Brave: Version 1.38.115 Chromium: 101.0.4951.64

Steps to reproduce

1. Added the hidden directory .well-known to my repo.
2. Downloaded brave-rewards-verification.txt, and added it to .well-known.
3. Added, committed, & pushed local repo to my remote repo.
4. On my Brave Creators homepage, attempted to verify personal website.
   Each time, I receive the following error message:

Retry Verification
Your website, andrewdillonpoetry.com, was not verified because we were redirected too many times to verify your domain.
Please reduce the number of redirects.

Notes

• I’ve tried turning off Brave Shields on the Creators website.
• I’ve tried adding .well-known to my Jekyll config file: include: .well-known/.
• I’m aware of two similar posts, though neither mentions Jekyll:
  • lubombo—closed without comment
  • Sutorippu—closed without specifying solution; other comments in the thread did not resolve for me.

[289wk]

@andrewdillonpoetry

Might be better to use DNS TXT record, instead of the file.

[andrewdillonpoetry]

Thanks, I was looking into that, but not sure how the record should look. In this case, would I copy the contents of brave-rewards-verification.txt into the text record Data field?

And would Host name be “@” or “.well-known”?

Example

Host name	Type	TTL	Data
@	TXT	1H	This is a Brave Rewards publisher verification file. Domain: andrewdillonpoetry.com Token: asdf1234…

[andrewdillonpoetry]

I believe I was able to verify using the DNS verification option, rather than the file upload verification method.

You’ll fill out the DNS record similarly to this:

Host name	Type	TTL	Data
	TXT	1H	brave-ledger-verification=0e5e9be6d9a40ff3da74315f3ba41383a3a5f9ec0a83c2040b78eb77543ab3582721ea

Notes:

• You’ll leave Host name blank for Brave verification; verifications must point to the primary domain, not subdomains.
• The Data field is formatted differently than the content of brave-rewards-verification.txt so that it fits on a single line.

I received an email immediately from Brave that my website had been verified, but am still waiting for that to be reflected in the BAT button when I visit my website. Brave’s documentation indicates it could take 24h.

Here are the relevant articles:

• Brave support
• Google documentation

[289wk]

@alissamccaw , @Chocoholic ,

Good info, re using DNS TXT record, in order to verify Brave Rewards > Creators - thanks to @andrewdillonpoetry