Github Pages site not detecting index.html [closed]

Answer 1

I encountered the same issue on deploying automatically a bookdown page from the gh-pages branch with Github Actions:

When I tried to access the url proposed by Github in the GitHub Pages section of the repository settings https://.github.io//

I got a Error404: Page not found response.

However, manually adding "index.html" at the end of the url displayed the page. https://.github.io//index.html

Adding manually a CNAME file with the following content to the gh-pages branch solved the issue permanently:

 https://.github.io//index.html

It's more a workaround though...

EDIT:

Adding a CMAKE file solved the problem only temporarily as it was removed upon invoking the gh actions workflow. Either:

i) change gh-actions workflow to create the CMAKE file at the end (still a workaround...)

or how I could solve it in the specific case of using bookdown:

ii) in the YAML header of the index.Rmd file, I added

url: "https://.github.io//"