I am trying to deploy the Jekyll website using the forked repo from https://github.com/cotes2020/jekyll-theme-chirpy theme. On my local system, all works fine. I have followed through all the instructions given in https://chirpy.cotes.page/posts/getting-started/#deployment and all appears to be ok. Even Github build status also indicates that the site is up and running at https://wxguy.github.io. However, when I access https://wxguy.github.io from firefox, The following line is displayed:-
--- layout: home # Index page ---
This is the exact content of the index.html located at the root of the project. I have renamed the index.html to index.md and deployed it again to GitHub. But still, the problem persists.
Next, I copied the content of _layouts/home.html to index.html again pushed it to GitHub. This time, it only displayed the text of Front Matter.
From the message I received on the firefox, it appears that GitHub is not building Jekyll site properly. I have deployed my site on the master branch in the remote.
I have gone through other blog source files which use the same theme at https://github.com/v3rtumnus/jekyll-blog. I am not able to figure out if any major changes I made to any configuration files.
Can someone help me to resolve this issue?
I got the issue solved by doing the following:-
The theme I am using uses GitHub action and hence I have to configure it under GitHub/username/username.io/settings --> Actions --> General --> Scroll down the page to select "Workflow Permissions" and "Read and write permissions".
Deploy your modified site to Github.
Go to again settings GitHub/username/username.io --> Check if the workflow is completed successfully. If not, then rerun the process.
Go to settings -- > Pages --> Select gh-pages as a branch and /root as a directory.
Wait for a few min and your site should be up and running.
I also found that there was an issue with the browser cache which was not allowing a new page to load from the server. Therefore, I opened the site in private mode.
Hope it helps others.
change setting to deploy source = github actions
I am running Windows 10 with GitHub Desktop. I installed Jekyll and tried to create a test blog.
I started with the instructions at:
https://docs.github.com/en/pages/setting-up-a-github-pages-site-with-jekyll/creating-a-github-pages-site-with-jekyll
I created the repository in GitHub Desktop and immediately published it to Github.com.
When I use GitHub Desktop to "open in bash" as mentioned in the link above, I get sent to:
E:\codingPractice\DocSourceBlog\DocSourceBlog>
Following the suggestions in the link above, I enter:
E:\codingPractice\DocSourceBlog\DocSourceBlog>mkdir docs
E:\codingPractice\DocSourceBlog\DocSourceBlog>cd docs
E:\codingPractice\DocSourceBlog\DocSourceBlog\docs>git checkout --orphan gh-pages
I enter $ jekyll new . and I get
New jekyll site installed in E:/codingPractice/DocSourceBlog/DocSourceBlog/docs.
I edit the gemfile, comment out the "gem jekyll" and change the next line to
gem "github-pages", "~> 214", group: :jekyll_plugins
by substituting the current version number into the boilerplate of the above link.
I run bundle update and bundle exec jekyll serve and localhost:4000 shows the expected site, including a sample blog post that can be accessed by clicking "Welcome of Jekyll!" That sample blog post starts off with:
You’ll find this post in your _posts directory. Go ahead and edit it and re-build the site to see your changes. You can rebuild the site in many different ways,
I use GitHub Desktop to commit the changed files to the branch and publish the branch to GitHub.
I refer to instructions at:
https://docs.github.com/en/pages/getting-started-with-github-pages/configuring-a-publishing-source-for-your-github-pages-site#choosing-a-publishing-source
I go to github.com/longarchivist/DocSourceBlog/settings/pages and set the source to "gh-pages" and "docs"
I go to https://longarchivist.github.io/DocSourceBlog/ and see that some of the content is there, but the blog post does not seem to show up as expected at "Welcome to Jekyll!" I click the link and get to
https://longarchivist.github.io/jekyll/update/2021/04/18/welcome-to-jekyll.html
but that has the 404 page.
I check the github web interface to make sure that the "_posts" directory is there.
I noticed that the address of the "Welcome to Jekyll!" link was:
http://localhost:4000/jekyll/update/2021/04/18/welcome-to-jekyll.html
I can speculate that ruby somehow destroyed the correct Jekyll configuration when I tried bundle exec jekyll serve but if that was enough to break the system then the documentation seems to be badly misleading.
I tried editing the config file. The "baseurl" variable is now "/docs" and the link address is
https://longarchivist.github.io/docs/jekyll/update/2021/04/18/welcome-to-jekyll.html
However, the desired sample blog post still does not display. Instead
https://longarchivist.github.io/docs/jekyll/update/2021/04/18/welcome-to-jekyll.html
is still a 404 page.
So the localhost problem is not the key to the problem.
Any constructive criticisms would be appreciated.
The best way seems to be to start a root directory that must contain your username first, then start a separate project directory for each project.
After creating a project directory, use "jekyll build" to auto-generate a Jekyll site. Add posts manually in the posts directory: somehow the index finds them automatically.
Then go back to the root site and manually add a link to your project directory.
For example:
https://longarchivist.github.io/
links to
https://longarchivist.github.io/codediary/
which currently has two posts. I created the second post by copying the original, then renaming it. Jekyll apparently expects the post filename to have the correct day and month, so when I use this tactic in the future, I will have to update those manually.
I tried to access my GitHub page:https://adityakm24.github.io/ But it shows 404 pages not found. I looked for many tutorials online but couldn't come up with a proper solution. Adding /Index.html doesn't work either. But I am sure about adding the index.html in my repo and index.html file is in the master branch.
https://adityakm24.github.io/ means a User page, for a GitHub repository named <user>.github.io at, in your case, https//github.com/adityakm24/adityakm24.github.io
Make sure you have selected a Source in the settings of that repository: it should be master by default.
And your file must be index.html, not Index.html (it is case sensitive)
You need to choose the branch properly in the settings page as shown below
Go to settings>manage access>manage
Here I can point out two reasons why it is not coming up
Provide the proper 'homepage url' in your package.json. This is a very important step. Follow this convention- "https://{username}.github.io/{RepoName}/". Anything other than this will give 404 error.
Go to your github repository and select the gh-pages branch.(No other branch will work)
Here is my GitHub repository on the gh-pages branch.
Everything looks good, I have my index.html, my CSS, JS and pictures folders.
But when I access http://roine.github.com/p1 I get HTTP 404 not found.
Any explanation and solution?
I had just one commit with all my files. I pushed an empty commit, refreshed the page and it worked.
git commit --allow-empty -m "Trigger rebuild"
git push
If this doesn't work, as #Hendrikto pointed out in the comments, check out the Github status page and make sure GitHub Pages are operational.
I did all the tricks on my repo to fix page 404 on Github Page (https://eq19.github.io/) but it kept 404'ing.
Finaly found that my browser hardly keep the 10 minutes cache before it up on the web.
Just add /index.html into the end of URL then it showed up and solved the case.
https://username.github.io/{repoName}/index.html
In my case, I had folders whose names started with _ (like _css and _js), which GH Pages ignores as per Jekyll processing rules. If you don't use Jekyll, the workaround is to place a file named .nojekyll in the root directory. Otherwise, you can remove the underscores from these folders
Four months ago I have contacted the support and they told me it was a problem on their side, they have temporarily fix it (for the current commit).
Today I tried again
I deleted the gh-pages branch on github
git push origin --delete gh-pages
I deleted the gh-pages branch on local
git branch -D gh-pages
I reinitialized git
git init
I recreated the branch on local
git branch gh-pages
I pushed the gh-pages branch to github
git push origin gh-pages
Works fine, I can finally update my files on the page.
If you haven't already, choose a Jekyll theme in your GitHub Pages settings tab. Apparently this is required even if you're not using Jekyll for your Pages site.
I had the same issue after forking a repo with a gh-pages branch. I was able to fix by simply pushing a new commit (just whitespace in index.html) to my fork's gh-pages branch.
In my case on 8/Aug/2017
if your user page is https://github.com/mgravell, you repo name must be
mgravell.github.io
under root, create a file index.html
under root, create a folder docs, create a file
CNAME under docs (note: NO extension like .txt, make sure your file
system shows extension)
gh-pages branch is optional, master branch is sufficient
more: check official docs here: https://help.github.com/articles/configuring-a-publishing-source-for-github-pages/
Just wait about ten minutes to one hour. If it still doesn't work, contact github. Usually it's the problem at their end.
But, if you're in a hurry, you can try to open by adding "?" question mark at the end of URL. It force query to search for the resource. Like this:
http://roine.github.com/p1?
In my case the browser had a previous cached version of my app. To avoid getting the cached version, access you url using a random query string:
https://{{your-username}}.github.io/{{your-repository}}?randomquery
My pages also kept 404'ing. Contacted support, and they pointed out that the url is case sensitive; solved my issue.
in my case i had to go to project settings and enable the github pages. The default is off
If you saw 404 even everything looks right, try switching https/http.
The original question has the url wrong, usually you can check repo settings and found the correct url for generated site.
However I have everything set up correctly, and the setting page said it's published, then I still saw 404.
Thanks for the comment of #Rohit Suthar (though that comment was to use https), I changed the url to http and it worked, then https worked too.
Add the following in the beginning of the index.html file
<!DOCTYPE html>
In my case in react was necessary to select the gh-pages branch:
I was facing the same issue, after trying most of the methods mentioned above I couldn't get the solution. In my case the issue of because of Github changing the name of master to main branch.
Go to Setting -> go to GitHub Pages section and change the branch to main:
to
Save it and select a theme, and the website is live.
If you are sure that your structure is correct, just push an empty commit or update the index.html file with some space, it works!
I had this exact problem with typedocs. The README.md worked but none of the actual docs generated by my doc strings displayed, I just got a 404 Github Pages screen.
To fix this, just place a empty file in your /docs directory (or wherever you generate your docs) & call it .nojekyll
To confirm, your file structure should now look like:
./docs/.nojekyll # plus all your generated docs
Push this up to your remote Github repo and your links etc should work now.
Also make sure you have selected in your Github settings:
Settings -> Github Pages -> Source -> master brach /docs folder
Depending on your doc framework, you probably have to recreate this file each time you update your docs, this is an example of using typedocs & creating the .nojekyll file each time in a package.json file:
# package.json
"scripts": {
"typedoc": "typedoc --out docs src && touch docs/.nojekyll"
},
The solution for me was to set right the homepage in package.json.
My project name is monsters-rolodex and I am publishing from console gh-pages -d build.
"homepage": "https://github.com/monsters-rolodex",
The project was built assuming it is hosted at /monsters-rolodex/.
Before it didn't work because in the homepage url I included my github username.
I got the site to work by deleting the "username.github.io" folder on my computer going through the steps again, including changing the index/html file.
My mistake (I think) is that i initially cloned "https://github.com/username/username.github.io.git" instead of https://github.com/username/username.github.io (no ".git")
In my case, all the suggestions above were correct. I had most pages working except few that were returning 404 even though the markdown files are there and they seemed correct. Here is what fixed it for me on these pages:
On one page, there were a few special characters that are not part of UTF-8 and I think that's why GitHub pages was not able to render them. Updating/removing these char and pushing a new commit fixed it.
On another page, I found that there were apostrophes ' surrounding the title, I removed them and the page content started showing fine
Another variant of this error:
I set up my first Github page after a tutorial but gave the file readme.md a - from my perspective - more meaningful name: welcome.md.
That was a fatal mistake:
We’ll use your README file as the site’s index if you don’t have an
index.md (or index.html), not dissimilar from when you browse to a
repository on GitHub.
from Publishing with GitHub Pages, now as easy as 1, 2, 3
I was then able to access my website page using the published at link specified under Repository / Settings / GitHub Pages followed by welcome.html or shorter welcome.
For some reason, the deployment of the GitHub pages stopped working today (2020-may-05). Previously I did not have any html, only md files. I tried to create an index.html and it published the page immediately. After removal of index.html, the publication keeps working.
I was following this YT video. So, when I ran the command in my terminal, it pushed the code to gh-pages branch already. Then I pushed to the master branch. It was giving me 404 error.
Then I swapped the branch to master and then again reverted to gh-pages and now the error is gone. It's pointing to the index.html even if it's not in the URL.
I bound my domain before this problem appeared. I committed and pushed the branch gh-pages and it solved my problem. New commits force jekyll to rebuild your pages.
In my case, the URL was quite long. So, I guess there is a limit. I put it to my custom subdomain and it worked.
On a private repo, when I first added and pushed my gh-pages branch to github, the settings for github pages automatically changed to indicate that the gh-pages branch would be published, but there no green or blue bar with the github.io url and no custom domain options.
It wasn't until I switched the source to master and quickly switched the source back to gh-pages that it actually updated with the green bar that contains the published url.
Your GitHub Pages is available at http://roine.github.io/p1 instead of http://roine.github.com/p1.
By the way, you can fix your project's description.
In my case it was that I had recently set up a custom domain for GitHub pages, but GitHub had forgotten my custom domain under (repo)<name>.github.io / Settings / Pages.
I added the custom domain again and then it immediately started working.
Go to settings section of your repository and choose master branch at the Source section and click save button after that refresh the page and you will be able to see the link of your page!.
I faced this problem (404) too and the root cause was my file was named INDEX.md. I was developing on Windows and my local Jekyll site worked (since Windows treats file names case insensitive by default). When pushed to Github, it didn't work. Once I renamed the INDEX.md to index.md, things worked well.