Issues building github pages site

[joshuarubin]

Just wondering if you ran into any issues with pages saying (on repo settings page):

Your site is having problems building: Page build failed.

I have the .nojekyll in the root of both my master and gh-pages branches.

If I push an empty commit to the gh-pages branch, things work fine.

[khanhicetea]

Hi @joshuarubin ,

Yes, yesterday I found something wrong with the Github-pages building.

First, I got email from Github said that my site building has been failed because of Liquid tag from Jekyll. Then I added .nojekyll like they said in documents to disable Jekyll. I thought this will fix the issue.

Next day, my site hasn't been updated new content. Then I go to settings to check and see the message like you mentioned - "Your site is having problems building: Page build failed." (hm... it's hard to debug what going on)

Then, I looking for documents and check what was wrong. And I found that Github only trigger Github Pages build only if email of commit should be your verified email in Github. So I fix it by this commit

But, it won't work as I expected ! Something weird here (I tried to push a blank index.html and CNAME to gh-pages and it works).

Finally, I just send a github help request to the team, hope it will be solved soon.

Please update me if you know anything else. Thanks !

[khanhicetea]

I will try to re-enable Circle-CI deploying to test around :) will update soon

[joshuarubin]

Glad to hear I'm not crazy! I've sent 2 requests to github support (without a response) and have tried pinging a few people like @jessfraz, @angelarivera and @mcolyer without success.

[khanhicetea]

Tested with CircleCI (same strategy) and it works well :

• No need the same email of account
• The different between 2 ways are :
  • Github Actions push to HTTPS within GITHUB_TOKEN
  • CircleCI push to SSH within public key

I hope Github can show the build error message 😞

[khanhicetea]

This is what I got from Github Staff

Hi there KhanhIceTea!

Thank you for writing in to GitHub Support.

I see you're part of the Actions beta, and you're trying to trigger a Page build with an Action. That puts you right on the bleeding edge! 😄

Currently that behavior isn't supported, so the official advice is to wait until Actions has been rolled out to everyone and is no longer in beta. A commit made manually will still trigger a build.

Unofficially, I've heard talk of a somewhat hacky solution where the push back to GitHub, if it’s done with a Personal Access Token for your account, will build the site, but I haven't tried this myself so can't guarantee it.

If there's anything else I can do, give me a shout!

Cheers,

Matt R

I will try to use personal access token then post result here

[joshuarubin]

I got the same note, I just tried it at https://github.com/joshuarubin/hugo-deploy-gh-pages and it seems to work.

[khanhicetea]

Yeah, glad to see it working :)

[khanhicetea]

hi @joshuarubin ,

I tried another strategy (using SSH deploy key, it's repository scoped so it's safer than Personal Access Token)

https://github.com/khanhicetea/gh-actions-hugo-deploy-gh-pages

Btw, I will keep this issue opened until it works after they release final of Github Actions

Thanks

[joshuarubin]

Great idea with the deploy key!

[mcolyer]

Apologies you all had trouble getting this to work, it sounds like support resolved it but also wanted to mention this similar action in case you all find it useful: https://github.com/maxheld83/ghpages.