support: The URL of the GitHub pages changes on its own

[yuta-hidaka]

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When I deploy a private static website in a private repository using GithubAction, the URL sometimes changes.

Is this a specification of this GitHubActions? (Or is it a GitHub Pages specification?) .

I would like to know why the URL sometimes changes and how to prevent the URL from changing.

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[peaceiris]

It looks like a feature of the GitHub Enterprise Cloud. (called Privately published sites and deployed to https://*.pages.github.io path patterns)

https://docs.github.com/en/enterprise-cloud@latest/pages/getting-started-with-github-pages/changing-the-visibility-of-your-github-pages-site

We can configure a custom domain to access a constant domain pattern.

https://docs.github.com/en/enterprise-cloud@latest/pages/configuring-a-custom-domain-for-your-github-pages-site

[yuta-hidaka]

@peaceiris

Hi!
Does that mean we have no control over the part of * of https://*.pages.github.io?

We can configure a custom domain to access a constant domain pattern.

According to this article.
We should use CNAME for DNS(If we use a subdomain), meaning we need the URL that never changed. So it might be still a problem🤔

Should I post it on actions/deploy-pages@v1 GitHub issue?

[peaceiris]

Does that mean we have no control over the part of * of https://*.pages.github.io?

yes.

We should use CNAME for DNS (If we use a subdomain), meaning we need the URL that never changed. So it might be still a problem

It is a specification of the GitHub Pages on the GitHub Enterprise Cloud. Currently, we have no way to deploy our site to an URL that never will be changed on a private Enterprise Cloud repository except to configure a custom domain. (I am also using the GitHub Pages on the GitHub Enterprise Cloud and use a URL like https://<ORG_NAME>.github.io/<REPO_NAME> as entry point of our private website)

If we have our custom domain, the GitHub Pages support CNAME files so we can put a CNAME file or set our domain as follows with this action.

https://github.com/peaceiris/actions-gh-pages#%EF%B8%8F-add-cname-file-cname

Should I post it on actions/deploy-pages GitHub issues?

• Private GitHub Pages redirects to internal url community/community#21581
• Git hub page URL is not working after deleted repos and creating new one with same name community/community#30373

The above previous discussions may help you. And we can request new features to GitHub at community/community. Of course, the actions/deploy-pages repository is also a good place to ask about that, I think.

[peaceiris]

• https://github.com/orgs/community/discussions/21581

According to the thread, actually, we can access a static URL https://<ORG_NAME>.github.io/<REPO_NAME> and it is redirected to an internal URL like https://hoge-fuga-<RANDOM>.pages.github.io/

[yuta-hidaka]

@peaceiris

Thank you so much!

I tried this https://<ORG_NAME>.github.io/<REPO_NAME> then it worked.

But changing the URL is not cool...

I gonna post about URLs on the GitHub community.

Again thank you so much.
あまり関係のない内容だったのに丁寧に教えていただき、ありがとうございました🙇

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