A file was included is a symlink or does not exist - Github Pages

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I'm having a problem to build my site on GitHub Pages. I'm getting the following error message:

Your site is having problems building: A file was included in vendor/Magnific-Popup/website/index.html that is a symlink or does not exist in your _includes directory. For more information, see https://help.github.com/en/github/working-with-github-pages/troubleshooting-jekyll-build-errors-for-github-pages-sites#file-is-a-symlink.

If I add '.nojekyll' file to the root directory of my repository, nothing is shown in my .io page. (404 not found is shown).

I've gone through some similar issue regarding this on stackoverflow and reddit, but nothing seems to solve my issue. So please don't mark it as duplicate.

Here is my vendor/Magnific-Popup/website/index.html

Link to my repo: https://github.com/kishan0725/kishan0725.github.io

It would be nice if you explained what needs to be changed/added instead of what and I'm not aware of jekyll.

Thanks in advance.

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1 Answers

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Since you're using Jekyll 3.8, you need to exclude the vendor directory in your config file if you've it defined:

# _config.yml

exclude:
  - "something" # whatever that's already there..
  - "Gemfile"
  - "vendor/"

In Jekyll 4.0, it is always excluded by default.