Github Pages: Page build failed

Question

I'm constantly getting the following error messages from github when I try to push my Jekyll site to their pages.

The page build failed with the following error:

Page build failed. For more information, see https://help.github.com/articles/troubleshooting-github-pages-build-failures.

If you have any questions please contact us at https://github.com/contact.

I ran jekyll serve to see if anything suspicious is going on, but the only thing it gives me is a warning: Build Warning: Layout 'default' requested in app/index.html does not exist.

Am I missing something? All my files are on Github: https://github.com/BobWassermann/confguide

Answer 1

Github pages is looking for your files at the root of your repository, then as it doesn't find _layouts and so on, at the right place, the build fails.

To avoid this, in config.yml add source: app.

Note: As your repository will be served at https://github.com/BobWassermann/confguide, all links to your assets will fail.

To avoid this, in config.yml add baseurl: /confguide.

And in default.html call your assets with {{site.baseurl}} like this :

<link rel="stylesheet" href="{{site.baseurl}}css/syntax.css">

and same for other assets (css/js/img).

Answer 2

Tried everything above, but nothing helped. Went trough everything and found the bug. Github does not support a "_" folder in your images directory, even if it's in your copy task in Gruntfile.

Removing my "_posts" folder in the img folder solved this issue.