gh-pages branch remains empty after push to master; pages build and deployment not triggered

[lezojeda]

Hello. If I understand correctly (correct me if I don´t please), if I commit to master I should expect two actions to be triggered, the custom one from the yml file and the pages build and deployment from github itself right? I have created the yml workflow file under .github/workflows/, set up the deployment to be from gh-pages branch but when I commit to master, gh-pages remains empty so I get a 404 when I go to my pages url

This is how the repo pages section is configured:

Thanks in advance

[lezojeda]

Fixed it. I had to configure Workflow permissions to "Read an write permissions" in the repo settings -> Actions -> General, to the bottom of the page. It was set to "Read repository contents and package permissions" by default.

[jeffreytse]

Hi @lezojeda

Thanks for your issue, and it's so glad to hear that you've solved the problem. And welcome to star this project for further update in the future.

Thanks & Regards

[AlexStormwood]

Can confirm, this was an issue for me and the change to permissions fixed this issue for me as well. It'd be worthwhile to put a note about this in the project's readme - it's the only hurdle that I had in getting this awesome action to work!

[indie-rok]

@lezojeda Made the trick! Thank you

[davidalpert]

if you do not want to change the default workflow permissions you can also set permissions for this workflow alone.

add something like this permissions block to your workflow:

...

jobs:
  build_and_deploy:
    runs-on: ubuntu-latest

    # https://docs.github.com/en/actions/security-guides/automatic-token-authentication#permissions-for-the-github_token
    permissions:
      contents: write # read to check out code / write enables push to the configured branch (e.g. gh-pages)
      pages: write

    steps:
      - uses: actions/checkout@v2

     ...