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title: GitHub Pages
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summary: Deploys to github pages.
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---
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* `ghpages://username/repository`
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* `ghpages+https://username/repository`
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A popular way to host websites for Open Source projects is the GitHub pages.
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It's a free services provided by [GitHub :ext](http://github.com/) which allows
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to host completely static websites through GitHub.
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The way this is implemented in Lektor currently is that Lektor will force-push
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a website into a repository of choice. There are two ways to push it up:
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`ghpages` (which uses SSH) or `ghpages+https` (which uses HTTPS). The latter
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can also accept `username:password@` in the URL to hold the credentials in
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addition to accepting username and password from the command line.
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Example:
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```ini
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[servers.production]
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target = ghpages://your-user/your-repository
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```
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## Behavior
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The way this deployment support works is that it commits a new commit into a
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temporary location and pushes it into the `gh-pages` or `master` branch
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depending on the name of the repository. If you push to `username.github.io`
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then it commits to `master`, otherwise to `gh-pages`. This is consistent
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with behavior for GitHub Pages.
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## CNAME Support
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If you want to use a [CNAME :ext](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/CNAME) with
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GitHub pages and Lektor you can provide the intended CNAME with the `?cname`
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parameter:
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```ini
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[servers.production]
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target = ghpages://your-user/your-repository?cname=www.example.com
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```
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For more information about how CNAMEs work with GitHub you can read about
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the feature in the GitHub help center:
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[Adding a CNAME file to your repository
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:ext](https://help.github.com/articles/adding-a-cname-file-to-your-repository/).
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## 404 Pages
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Per convenention the file named `404.html` is used as placeholder if a page
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cannot be found. You can create such a page by creating a `404.html/contents.lr`
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file.
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## Automatic Deployments
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If you want to use ghpages it's desirable to have this build automatically.
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This is easy to accomplish with the help of Travis-CI. For more information
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see [Deploying with Travis-CI :ref](../travisci/).
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