In this tutorial, we use Travis CI to deploy Github Pages. It is free for open source repository, meaning your repository’s master branch has to be public. Please skip to the Private repository section if you prefer to keep the repo private, or prefer not to upload your source folder to GitHub.
Create a repo named username.github.io, where username is your username on GitHub. If you have already uploaded to other repo, rename the repo instead.
Push the files of your Hexo folder to the repository. The public/ folder is not (and should not be) uploaded by default, make sure the .gitignore file contains public/ line. The folder structure should be roughly similar to this repo, without the .gitmodules file.
On a new tab, generate a new token with repo scopes. Note down the token value.
On the Travis page, go to your repo’s setting. Under Environment Variables, put GH_TOKEN as name and paste the token onto value. Click Add to save it.
Add .travis.yml file to your repo (alongside _config.yml & package.json) with the following content:
sudo:false language:node_js node_js: -10# use nodejs v10 LTS cache:npm branches: only: -master# build master branch only script: -hexogenerate# generate static files deploy: provider:pages skip-cleanup:true github-token:$GH_TOKEN keep-history:true on: branch:master local-dir:public
Once Travis CI finish the deployment, the generated pages can be found in the gh-pages branch of your repository
In your GitHub repo’s setting, navigate to “GitHub Pages” section and change Source to gh-pages branch.
Check the webpage at username.github.io.
Project page
If you prefer to have a project page on GitHub:
Navigate to your repo on GitHub. Go to the Settings tab. Change the Repository name so your blog is available at username.github.io/repository, repository can be any name, like blog or hexo.
Edit your _config.yml, change the root: value to the /<repository>/ (must starts and ends with a slash, without the brackets).
Commit and push.
Private repository
This section only applies to private repo.
Create a repo named username.github.io, where username is your username on GitHub. If you have already uploaded to other repo, rename the repo instead. (Skip to step 3 if you prefer not to upload your source folder to GitHub at all)
Push the files of your Hexo folder to the repository. The public/ folder is not (and should not be) uploaded by default, make sure the .gitignore file contains public/ line. The folder structure should be roughly similar to this repo, without the .gitmodules file.
Run hexo generate and copy the public/ folder to somewhere else (in your workstation).
Create a new gh-pages git branch from your Hexo folder, we recommend creating an orphan branch (to create a new branch without commit history):
$ git checkout --orphan gh-pages
Remove everything including any hidden files except the .git/ folder. Fret not, those files are still residing at the master branch.