How to host on Github Pages?

[meefen]

I might have missed something, but how can I host this site on Github Pages? It doesn't automatically build when pushing an update to Github. Does it require a gh-pages branch? Or this is because of dependencies unsupported by Github? Any tips would be appreciated.

[sampsyo]

It’s possible this will mostly work on a gh-pages branch, but one piece definitely won’t: the BibTeX publication list, which uses a custom Python tool we made.

FWIW, we deploy our version of this site to our departmental web servers instead of GitHub Pages using Hooknook: https://www.cs.cornell.edu/~asampson/blog/hooknook.html

[meefen]

Thank you for the tip! Yes the issue was with the submodule for the publication list. I ended up removing the submodule (while keeping the files) and Github was able to compile everything.

[ljschumacher]

I'm also trying to use this as a github page, can you provide a little more detail about what you changed to make it work, @meefen ?