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Development Tools Creating a Project Pages Site

Posted by tylerduprey
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tylerduprey
Full Stack JavaScript Techdegree Student 25,399 Points

Is it possible to host a site with multiple pages on GitHub Pages?

Index.html works fine but my other pages throw a 404 error even though they seem to be linked correctly. Plus, the links work on my local server.

3 Answers

Gabriel Plackey
Gabriel Plackey
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Gabriel Plackey
Gabriel Plackey
11,064 Points

Yes it is. File path could have to be different for the files on github VS the ones on your local server.

tylerduprey
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tylerduprey
Full Stack JavaScript Techdegree Student 25,399 Points

Thanks. You were right. I was linking to my pages using certain kind of absolute link. So, for the about page my href value was "/about/". The first forward slash tells Chrome Web Server on my local machine to go to the root and then look for the about page. Apparently GiHub pages works differently. All i had to do was change the href value to "about/" and it worked fine. Thanks again!

Gabriel Plackey
Gabriel Plackey
11,064 Points
Gabriel Plackey
Gabriel Plackey
11,064 Points

Could take a look at your repo if you want, see if I can find anything that looks wrong with the file paths or anything.

jacobproffer
jacobproffer
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jacobproffer
jacobproffer
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Hey Tyler,

As Gabriel mentioned, you should have no problem having a multi-page site on GitHub pages. I host a variety of sites on GitHub, including a Jekyll blog.

tylerduprey
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tylerduprey
Full Stack JavaScript Techdegree Student 25,399 Points

Yep, you're right! I got to work. Thank you. I know this is off topic but do you know if any good Jekyll tutorials? Treehouse took down the Jekyll basics course because it was outdated and I'm having trouble finding a decent one out there in the non treehouse world. Thanks again!