Branch is not allowed to deploy to github-pages

[odwrotnie]

What version of astro are you using?

1.0.6

Are you using an SSR adapter? If so, which one?

None

What package manager are you using?

npm

What operating system are you using?

Mac

Describe the Bug

After step by step from https://docs.astro.build/en/guides/deploy/github/ - the Action says:

Branch "main" is not allowed to deploy to github-pages due to environment protection rules.

Link to Minimal Reproducible Example

https://github.com/instap-app/website-definition/actions/runs/2897989697

Participation

• I am willing to submit a pull request for this issue.

[swift502]

Probably related to #1355.

@odwrotnie Can you try switching your Settings > Pages > Source to "GitHub Actions" and see if that works?

[swift502]

What's baffling to me is that there's nearly a hundred repositories using the withastro/action@v0 workflow action, and they seem to work just fine. Did nobody have issues with this until now? Did something recently change that makes the GitHub deployment guide outdated?

[kevinzunigacuellar]

What's baffling to me is that there's nearly a hundred repositories using the withastro/action@v0 workflow action, and they seem to work just fine. Did nobody have issues with this until now? Did something recently change that makes the GitHub deployment guide outdated?

Sorry for the inconvenience, we switched actions lately from actions-gh-pages to deploy-pages to a wrapper with withastro/action. Some configuration options or steps were probably left out from previous versions. Thank you for raising issues 😇, this helps other community members to have a better experience.

[odwrotnie]

Can you try switching your Settings > Pages > Source to "GitHub Actions" and see if that works?

Switching didn't help :(.

[swift502]

@odwrotnie Interesting, can you look into Settings > Environments and report what you see? You should see a github-pages environment:

And inside of it a deployment branch rule that's just the name of your deployment branch. In your case "main".

Alternatively, you should just be able to switch from "Selected branches" to "All branches" to remove all branch restricitons.

[odwrotnie]

This is exactly what I see:

Insied was gh-pages.

I have changed to "main" and it worked!

[swift502]

I'm not sure why this breaks occasionally. It's supposed to automatically set itself up when you switch the source to GitHub actions..

Let's hope it's a rare issue.

[odwrotnie]

There is another issue I suppose:

Take a look at this: https://instap-app.github.io/website-definition/

The assets are linked like https://instap-app.github.io/assets/index.26638c6a.css and should be: https://instap-app.github.io/website-definition/assets/index.26638c6a.css.

My astro.config.mjs looks like this:

site: 'https://instap-app.github.io'
base: '/website-definition'

[swift502]

Oh, well.. 😄

Those parameters belong inside of the defineConfig object, not outside of it. https://github.com/instap-app/website-definition/blob/master/astro.config.mjs#L9-L10

Try moving them and redeploy the page.

[odwrotnie]

Now it works! Thank you! This should be stated more clearly in the docs - I can do it.

[sayandcode]

@odwrotnie Interesting, can you look into Settings > Environments and report what you see? You should see a github-pages environment:

And inside of it a deployment branch rule that's just the name of your deployment branch. In your case "main".

Alternatively, you should just be able to switch from "Selected branches" to "All branches" to remove all branch restricitons.

This was exactly my issue. This should also be mentioned in the docs, in case we're not hosting from the default branch