GitHub Pages building with Jekyll despite .nojekyll present

[egouldo]

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I am building a GitHub page using this workflow file.

I am building the site to the docs/ directory using this workflow, and then wish to deploy this directory. My workflow file uses the action JamesIves/github-pages-deploy-action@v4.4.1 to deploy. This is successful (https://github.com/egouldo/ManyEcoEvo/actions/runs/6779032303), however, immediately afterwards, the GitHub pages bot attempts to rebuild my site using Jekyll, and then fails https://github.com/egouldo/ManyEcoEvo/actions/runs/6779117783. This is despite there being a .nojekyll file in the target directory, which is written there by the original workflow step, https://github.com/egouldo/ManyEcoEvo/blob/ffaa68e544eb9fc137948aa6f9bc8b47a7af0d9f/.github/workflows/pkgdown.yaml#L44-L46.

I have checked that the .nojekyll file is present on the gh-pages branch. What am I missing?

[b8zeek]

Hey. 👋🏼

I took a look at the log from your build...

This error message "No such file or directory @ dir_chdir - /github/workspace/docs" indicates that the directory /github/workspace/docs doesn't exist in your repository and that is causing the build to fail. So, you should make sure the docs directory exists in your repository, otherwise create it. Pay attention that the name is correct because the system is case-sensitive.

Good luck. 🍺

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[egouldo]

Thank you!! That's incredibly helpful. I think I have misunderstood exactly what is happening when the GitHub-bot build kicks in. I had my GitHub Pages settings to deploy from gh-pages/docs/ but I needed it set to /root/. Whilst my workflow creates a /docs/ folder in the main branch, only the contents of /docs/ are copied into the root of the gh-pages branch! I've just forced a rebuild and the page has successfully deployed.

[b8zeek]

Amazing Elliot! 🚀

I am glad I was able to help you; love to see this! ☺️

Take care bro. 🍺

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[queenofcorgis]

Nice work @bejzik8 🤩 - thanks for the assist and thanks for marking the answer @egouldo ❤️

[b8zeek]

I am glad I was able to assist! I am learning through helping; and I'm enjoying it. 😊

Thanks for the support stranger! 🙏

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