Deploying is like publishing. When authors are ready for their work to be seen by the world, they publish it. When web developers are ready to share their projects, they deploy to the World Wide Web. Deployment is when a project is packaged and shared on the Internet. Unlike publishing, however, deployment may occur many, many times over the course of a software project.

Deployment on GitHub Pages

Deploying to GitHub Pages is automatic. Once it’s set up, deploying happens whenever you push your local changes to your remote, GitHub-hosted repository. Head to GitHub Pages’setup instructionsand follow the steps exactly to get your main GitHub Pages page setup.

When you first navigate to your newly deployed site it is possible that you will receive a 404 error. If this happens, and you are confident that you have followed all the steps as written, check back in 30 minutes to see if the deploy has successfully gone through.

Viewing Your Live Web Page

That’s it! Your website is deployed to the Internet! You and anyone with whom you share this link can view your project by navigating in your browser to the URLhttp://<your-github-username>.github.io.

Adding GitHub Pages Projects

You can set up your GitHub Pages to deploy every one of your repositories in addition to<username>.github.io. This will allow you to ensure all of your sites are deployed automatically whenever you push to GitHub.

In GitHub, navigate to your<username>.github.iorepository and clickSettings.

WithinSettings, navigate to theSourcesection within theGithub Pagessection. From the dropdown menus, ensure that themainbranch and the/(root)directory are selected, then clickSave.

Now, all of your repositories can be found athttp://<username>.github.io/<repository-name>. Try creating a new repo with an HTML project inside it (perhaps push an old project to GitHub) and then navigate to the deployed page.

Deploying New Changes

Now that your GitHub Pages site is set up, deploying new changes is easy. Every time you make a change to your site, use the normal GitHub flow. That is, usegit commitandgit pushto send your changes to GitHub. After this, the GitHub site should update within a few seconds. Just refresh the page in your browser, and you’re good to go!

Congratulations on your first live web page!

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