hosting gh-pages on custom domain, white empty page - reactjs

im new to coding and need some help.
I made a react project (using create-react-app), and the website has been running on my gh-pages branch
(heres my repo: https://github.com/simchaleh/shivisihashem.git)
ive been trying to host the gh-pages project on a custom domain instead.
my react project looks great when its hosted on gh-pages, but when i try to connect it to my custom domain, all i get is a solid white screen.
heres a screen pic of my dns settings on custom domain. (u can also see that gh-pages says its hosting on my domain):
dns settings and gh-pages/settings page
I have a CNAME file in gh-pages branch, with one line, where i put:
shivisihashem.com
does anyone have any ideas why im just getting a blank white screen on my custom domain?
thanks!

i just got an answer from github staff. it solved my issue.
heres the answer if anyone else has this same issue:
The file you need to edit is here:
https://github.com/simchaleh/shivisihashem/blob/gh-pages/index.html
Currently, these two sections have errors:
<script type="text/javascript"
> src="/ShivisiHashem/static/js/main.7cdb5ccf.js"></script>
>
> <link href="/ShivisiHashem/static/css/main.ff643f95.css"
> rel="stylesheet">
You should be able to resolve the issue by replacing them with these:
<script type="text/javascript"
> src="/static/js/main.7cdb5ccf.js"></script>
>
> <link href="/static/css/main.ff643f95.css" rel="stylesheet">
I hope that helps! Let us know if you have any other issues.

Simcha's solution worked for me temporarily. Every time I was deploying to Github pages, the index.html file was automatically reverted back to "/theNameOfMyApp/static/.... So I managed to get rid of this problem, by removing the "/theNameOfMyApp" part from the homepage: ... in package.json. So in package.json there I have: "homepage": "http://themitsoss.github.io".

Had this same problem. I believe this issue is caused when you use the PUBLIC_URL environment variable, like so:
%PUBLIC_URL%/main.css
which works for the github.io site but causes path problems in the custom domain, which adds the variable in front of the path like in Simcha's example. So, we need to manually remove every instance of the this variable (process.env.PUBLIC_URL) each time we build for gh-pages.

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So basically, I bought the custom domain of nexus-cheats.com, and went to connect it to my GitHub pages website of archiemourad.github.io/Nexus (/Nexus is the homepage). I entered the custom domain and set up the DNS, did the DNS checks and everything seemed to be working (Image Below) (My website is using React.js) Now, when loading the domain nexus-cheats.com It brings me to a blank page, And it "seems" to be working in a way It loads the tab title but nothing else. In the console there are a bunch of cookie related warnings. But no errors. When I go to nexus-cheats.com/Nexus i get the default GitHub pages 404. And get two errors. One is the denail of loading of my favicon.ico (Tab logo) Error => Content Security Policy: The page’s settings blocked the loading of a resource at https://nexus-cheats.com/favicon.ico (“img-src”). The other is a server GET 404 error => GEThttps://nexus-cheats.com/NexusALTHOUGH after loading nexus-cheats.com/Nexus and going back to nexus-cheats.com I get two more errors, both being the failure to load certain files in my react app. Errors => GET https://nexus-cheats.com/Nexus/static/js/main.89be2f5c.js GET https://nexus-cheats.com/Nexus/static/css/main.1bf437ff.css These (I assume) Are the build version my GitHub pages website is running on. Anyone know a solution? Or the problem going on here?
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----edit: Solved, but I kept all of my original text for brevity---
I'm getting this same exact error and situation right now.
I don't have answers yet, but it looks like React is trying to connect the %PUBLICURL% to the wrong place now. This comes from my /public/index.html file.
<!DOCTYPE html>
<html lang="en">
<head>
...
<link rel="icon" href="%PUBLIC_URL%/favicon.ico" />
...
<link rel="apple-touch-icon" href="%PUBLIC_URL%/logo192.png" />
<link rel="manifest" href="%PUBLIC_URL%/manifest.json" />
...
</head>
<body>
<noscript>You need to enable JavaScript to run this app.</noscript>
<div id="root"></div>
</body>
</html>
I subtracted irrelevant code and added the ...'s, for the record.
Locally, my network tab in my browser's developer tools shows:
http://localhost:3000/{project-name}/manifest.json
But, when I hosted it the exact way you have (with it working properly before I added the custom domain), it returns:
{my-custom-domain}/{project-name}/manifest.json
The /public/index.html file has loaded, but it can't access the other files it calls correctly.
It seems that the index.html is adding an extra part to the address from the %PUBLICURL%. By that, I mean the %PUBLICURL% adds the {project-name} between the custom domain and the files it is trying to access. My url should read:
{my-custom-domain}/manifest.json
I can edit the values in the developer's tools to remove that part, and then the files will load. But, this still doesn't solve the issue.
---------edit: solved the issue---------
I am unsure if the above changes are necessary, but I did remove the %PUBLICURL% from my /public/index.html file.
Now for the good part - the fix!
In your package.json, be sure to change the:
"homepage": "your-github-url"
to:
"homepage": "your-fancy-new-custom-domain"
Save it up and then run your build script included in most of the resources I found ( like this: https://create-react-app.dev/docs/deployment/#step-2-install-gh-pages-and-add-deploy-to-scripts-in-packagejson ):
npm run deploy
This will update your project, post it to your GitHub, and deploy it. Then just check that you have the same settings as you originally posted an image of on your GitHub pages, and it should work!

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