GitHub托管
GitHub provides free and fast static hosting over SSL for personal, organization, or project pages directly from a GitHub repository via its GitHub Pages service.
Assumptions
- You have Git 2.8 or greater installed on your machine.
- You have a GitHub account. Signing up for GitHub is free.
- You have a ready-to-publish Hugo website or have at least completed the Quick Start.
Types of GitHub Pages
There are 2 types of GitHub Pages:
- User/Organization Pages (
https://<USERNAME|ORGANIZATION>.github.io/
) - Project Pages (
https://<USERNAME|ORGANIZATION>.github.io/<PROJECT>/
)
Please refer to the GitHub Pages documentation to decide which type of site you would like to create as it will determine which of the below methods to use.
To create a User/Organization Pages site, follow the single method in the GitHub User and Organization Pages section below.
To create a Project Pages site, choose a method from the Project Pages section below.
GitHub User or Organization Pages
As mentioned the GitHub Pages documentation, you can host a user/organization page in addition to project pages. Here are the key differences in GitHub Pages websites for Users and Organizations:
- You must use a
<USERNAME>.github.io
to host your generated content - Content from the
master
branch will be used to publish your GitHub Pages site
This is a much simpler setup as your Hugo files and generated content are published into two different repositories.
Step-by-step Instructions
- Create a
<YOUR-PROJECT>
(e.g.blog
) repository on GitHub. This repository will contain Hugo’s content and other source files. - Create a
<USERNAME>.github.io
GitHub repository. This is the repository that will contain the fully rendered version of your Hugo website. git clone <YOUR-PROJECT-URL> && cd <YOUR-PROJECT>
- Paste your existing Hugo project into a new local
<YOUR-PROJECT>
repository. Make sure your website works locally (hugo server
orhugo server -t <YOURTHEME>
) and open your browser to http://localhost:1313. - Once you are happy with the results:
- Press Ctrl+C to kill the server
- Before proceeding run
rm -rf public
to completely remove thepublic
directory
git submodule add -b master https://github.com/<USERNAME>/<USERNAME>.github.io.git public
. This creates a git submodule. Now when you run thehugo
command to build your site topublic
, the createdpublic
directory will have a different remote origin (i.e. hosted GitHub repository).
Put it Into a Script
You’re almost done. In order to automate next steps create a deploy.sh
script. You can also make it executable with chmod +x deploy.sh
.
The following are the contents of the deploy.sh
script:
#!/bin/sh
# If a command fails then the deploy stops
set -e
printf "\033[0;32mDeploying updates to GitHub...\033[0m\n"
# Build the project.
hugo # if using a theme, replace with `hugo -t <YOURTHEME>`
# Go To Public folder
cd public
# Add changes to git.
git add .
# Commit changes.
msg="rebuilding site $(date)"
if [ -n "$*" ]; then
msg="$*"
fi
git commit -m "$msg"
# Push source and build repos.
git push origin master
You can then run ./deploy.sh "Your optional commit message"
to send changes to <USERNAME>.github.io
. Note that you likely will want to commit changes to your <YOUR-PROJECT>
repository as well.
That’s it! Your personal page should be up and running at https://<USERNAME>.github.io
within a couple minutes.
GitHub Project Pages
Deployment of Project Pages from /docs
folder on master
branch
As described in the GitHub Pages documentation, you can deploy from a folder called docs/
on your master branch. To effectively use this feature with Hugo, you need to change the Hugo publish directory in your site’s config.toml
and config.yaml
, respectively:
publishDir = "docs"
publishDir: docs
After running hugo
, push your master branch to the remote repository and choose the docs/
folder as the website source of your repo. Do the following from within your GitHub project:
- Go to Settings → GitHub Pages
- From Source, select “master branch /docs folder”. If the option isn’t enabled, you likely do not have a
docs/
folder in the root of your project.
Deployment of Project Pages From Your gh-pages
branch
You can also tell GitHub pages to treat your master
branch as the published site or point to a separate gh-pages
branch. The latter approach is a bit more complex but has some advantages:
- It keeps your source and generated website in different branches and therefore maintains version control history for both.
- Unlike the preceding
docs/
option, it uses the defaultpublic
folder.
Preparations for gh-pages
Branch
These steps only need to be done once. Replace upstream
with the name of your remote; e.g., origin
:
Add the public
Folder
First, add the public
folder to your .gitignore
file at the project root so that the directory is ignored on the master branch:
echo "public" >> .gitignore
Initialize Your gh-pages
Branch
You can now initialize your gh-pages
branch as an empty orphan branch:
git checkout --orphan gh-pages
git reset --hard
git commit --allow-empty -m "Initializing gh-pages branch"
git push upstream gh-pages
git checkout master
Build and Deployment
Now check out the gh-pages
branch into your public
folder using git’s worktree feature. Essentially, the worktree allows you to have multiple branches of the same local repository to be checked out in different directories:
rm -rf public
git worktree add -B gh-pages public upstream/gh-pages
Regenerate the site using the hugo
command and commit the generated files on the gh-pages
branch:
hugo
cd public && git add --all && git commit -m "Publishing to gh-pages" && cd ..
If the changes in your local gh-pages
branch look alright, push them to the remote repo:
git push upstream gh-pages
Set gh-pages
as Your Publish Branch
In order to use your gh-pages
branch as your publishing branch, you’ll need to configure the repository within the GitHub UI. This will likely happen automatically once GitHub realizes you’ve created this branch. You can also set the branch manually from within your GitHub project:
- Go to Settings → GitHub Pages
- From Source, select “gh-pages branch” and then Save. If the option isn’t enabled, you likely have not created the branch yet OR you have not pushed the branch from your local machine to the hosted repository on GitHub.
After a short while, you’ll see the updated contents on your GitHub Pages site.
Put it Into a Script
To automate these steps, you can create a script with the following contents:
#!/bin/sh
if [ "`git status -s`" ]
then
echo "The working directory is dirty. Please commit any pending changes."
exit 1;
fi
echo "Deleting old publication"
rm -rf public
mkdir public
git worktree prune
rm -rf .git/worktrees/public/
echo "Checking out gh-pages branch into public"
git worktree add -B gh-pages public upstream/gh-pages
echo "Removing existing files"
rm -rf public/*
echo "Generating site"
hugo
echo "Updating gh-pages branch"
cd public && git add --all && git commit -m "Publishing to gh-pages (publish.sh)"
#echo "Pushing to github"
#git push --all
This will abort if there are pending changes in the working directory and also makes sure that all previously existing output files are removed. Adjust the script to taste, e.g. to include the final push to the remote repository if you don’t need to take a look at the gh-pages branch before pushing.
Deployment of Project Pages from Your master
Branch
To use master
as your publishing branch, you’ll need your rendered website to live at the root of the GitHub repository. Steps should be similar to that of the gh-pages
branch, with the exception that you will create your GitHub repository with the public
directory as the root. Note that this does not provide the same benefits of the gh-pages
branch in keeping your source and output in separate, but version controlled, branches within the same repo.
You will also need to set master
as your publishable branch from within the GitHub UI:
- Go to Settings → GitHub Pages
- From Source, select “master branch” and then Save.
Use a Custom Domain
If you’d like to use a custom domain for your GitHub Pages site, create a file static/CNAME
. Your custom domain name should be the only contents inside CNAME
. Since it’s inside static
, the published site will contain the CNAME file at the root of the published site, which is a requirements of GitHub Pages.
Refer to the official documentation for custom domains for further information.