support: Github Pages not deployed, even when action is successfull

[anticdimi]

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Describe your question

Hi @peaceiris ,
Thank you for your work, it really is useful!

My website can't deploy correctly. It seems like the public/dir is not created in the correct location (see the log output bellow).
Any hints on how to solve this?

Relevant links

Public repository: /
YAML config: 

name: Deploy GitHub Pages

on:
  push:
    branches:
      - main 
  pull_request:

jobs:
  deploy:
    runs-on: ubuntu-latest
    permissions:
      contents: write
    concurrency:
      group: ${{ github.workflow }}-${{ github.ref }}
    steps:
      - uses: actions/checkout@v3
        with:
          submodules: true  # Fetch any Git submodules (true OR recursive)
          fetch-depth: 0    # Fetch all history for .GitInfo and .Lastmod

      - name: Setup Hugo
        uses: peaceiris/actions-hugo@v2
        with:
          hugo-version: 'latest'
          extended: true

      - name: Build
        run: hugo --minify

      - name: Deploy
        uses: peaceiris/actions-gh-pages@v3.9.3
        with:
          publish_branch: gh-pages
          github_token: ${{ secrets.GITHUB_TOKEN }}
          publish_dir: ./public


YAML workflow:

Relevant log output

[INFO] copy /home/runner/work/anticdimi.github.io/anticdimi.github.io/public to /home/runner/actions_github_pages_1692352328176
cp: no such file or directory: /home/runner/work/anticdimi.github.io/anticdimi.github.io/public/.*

Additional context.

No response

[Darker]

I have the same problem. This is my log:

  [INFO] ForceOrphan: false
  /usr/bin/git clone --depth=1 --single-branch --branch gh-pages ***github.com/Darker/battletech-techsheet.git /home/runner/actions_github_pages_1692478804848
  Cloning into '/home/runner/actions_github_pages_1692478804848'...
  [INFO] clean up /home/runner/actions_github_pages_1692478804848
  [INFO] chdir /home/runner/actions_github_pages_1692478804848
  /usr/bin/git rm -r --ignore-unmatch *
  rm '.nojekyll'
  [INFO] chdir /home/runner/actions_github_pages_1692478804848
  [INFO] prepare publishing assets
  [INFO] copy /home/runner/work/battletech-techsheet/battletech-techsheet/web/root to /home/runner/actions_github_pages_1692478804848
  cp: no such file or directory: /home/runner/work/battletech-techsheet/battletech-techsheet/web/root/*
  cp: no such file or directory: /home/runner/work/battletech-techsheet/battletech-techsheet/web/root/.*
  [INFO] delete excluded assets
  rm: no paths given
  [INFO] Created /home/runner/actions_github_pages_1692478804848/.nojekyll

The only file that ends up in gh-pages branch is the .nojekyll file created at the end.

[peaceiris]

@anticdimi Your ./public looks empty, I think.

@Darker Your ./web/root looks empty too.

[peaceiris]

Here is my new example repo. FYI https://github.com/peaceiris/test-mdbook

[Darker]

I may have misunderstood the purpose of this action. I thought it would publish from master to gh-pages. I have in the meantime resolved this by using a different action. Byt my web/root in master was not empty: https://github.com/Darker/battletech-techsheet/tree/master/web/root

[anticdimi]

Hi @peaceiris ,
I don't think that is the case, because when I run hugo --minify on my local machine, the ./public dir actually contains the website content.

[anticdimi]

I have also solved this issue by using a different deployment method.

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