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Francis N
10,376 PointsI am currently having issues deploying github pages with gulp
Hello all,
I went through the Gulp Basics, Using "gulp-useref" and Deploy App to Github Pages with Gulp tutorials and when I finished, my page on github pages pulls a 404 error. Unlike the tutorial videos, my page has a CNAME. I used my personal website as testing grounds to learn Gulp. At this point, I do not know how to debug the issues because everything looks like it should work. I did read someone on Github that if you are using <username>.github.io , that I cannot publish site from different locations other than master branch. Currently I have everything built out and deploy to src. Can someone help explain what is it that I am doing wrong? And also, what is the difference between gulp deploy and git push origin master?
Here is my github: https://github.com/francisngo/francisngo.github.io
Much appreciated. :)
2 Answers
Seth Kroger
56,413 PointsYes, the username.github.io repository is the one exception to publishing to the gh-pages branch. You need to have gulp-gh-pages deploy to the master branch. (the README docs show you options you can pass to the plugin such as changing the deployment branch.) Which in turn requires you use a different branch than master for your source.
Jesus Mendoza
23,289 PointsI have everything on my main folder on github and everything works great.
https://github.com/Jesusz0r/Jesusz0r.github.io check it out as a reference if you want to
Francis N
10,376 Pointsthanks for sharing your page but it doesn't look like you used gulp to deploy your page which is my issue.
Francis N
10,376 PointsFrancis N
10,376 Pointshow do i make gulp-gh-pages deploy to master branch? sorry i dont understand.
Seth Kroger
56,413 PointsSeth Kroger
56,413 PointsFirst create a new branch for you main source:
git checkout -b dev(and push it to GitHub). This way you are usingdevfor your edits instead ofmaster. Then instead ofghPages();you can useghPages({ branch: "master" });Francis N
10,376 PointsFrancis N
10,376 Pointsthank you. your explanation helped it. the documentation is hard for me to understand but you helped clarify it and now my page works. :)