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When I use GitHb Pages without a custom domain name, the content becomes available at https://<USERNAME>.github.io/<REPO_NAME>/. Is there anyway to post content at https://<USERNAME>.github.io/?

Same question applies to organizations. Could I post content at https://<ORGANIZATION>.github.io/?

When I go to either of these addresses I get a 404 page:

It would be nice if I could. Then I could add a favicon.ico file or custom 404 page that would apply to all my GitHub Pages sites.

[MayaAtwan]

I found this solution and I hope it works,
Instructions for setting up username.github.com *
Create a repo named username.github.com
Push a master branch to GitHub and enjoy!
Instructions for setting up username.github.com/repo-name *
Caution: make your working directory clean before you do this (either stash or commit), otherwise this will lose any changes you've made to your project since the last commit.
cd /path/to/repo-name
git symbolic-ref HEAD refs/heads/gh-pages
rm .git/index
git clean -fdx
echo "My GitHub Page" > index.html
git add .
git commit -a -m "First pages commit"
git push origin gh-pages

https://gist.github.com/atomize/2012391

[codeadamca]

Awesome thanks! Just in case anyone is looking in the future...

This works as described for both https://<USERNAME>.github.io/ and https://<ORGANIZATION>.github.io/. Notice that the domain is .io not .com. The repo needs to be named <USERNAME>.github.io and <ORGANIZATION>.github.io.

This also worked as I was hoping for a favicon.ico file. If you put a favicon.ico in your <USERNAME>.github.io repo, it will be used for all repos using GitHub Pages without a custom domain name.

I added full details on a Gist:
https://gist.github.com/codeadamca/bc3dcb6fc768ee1714918aa15cf13fad