Jekyll site attempting to download 'Posts' page instead of rendering it when link is clicked (deployed at Github)

Question

Folks, help is needed and MUCH appreciated with a fuzzy behaviour of Jekyll site deployed to Github.

The site works perfectly when putting it up and using it in the local machine (through 'jekyll serve'). The surprise came up upon deployment to Github, the HTML 'posts.html' page created to show the post list does not get rendered at all. The rest of the site is up and running fine, but once the link is clicked to reach the mentioned page the browser is trying to DOWNLOAD the file, instead of rendering.

If you need to have a peek at the code:

https://github.com/zekdeluca/zekdeluca.github.io

And the site can be seen at:

http://zekdeluca.github.io/

Thanks in advance!

Answer 1

It has to do with the permalink and how the extension-less urls are working. If you add a trailing slash to your url it will work. If you are trying to do it without the trailing slash, I was under the impression that what you did would work on GH.

Something like permalink: /my-page/ will work and it creates a folder called my-page with an index.html file in it. The url will show as /my-page/ without the index.html - pretty except the trailing slash.

If you do permalink: /my-page it should be making a file my-page.html, but in your case it seemed to have made just my-page with no extension, which is then being served as a file by github and it doesn't seem to know what it is so it is downloading it instead of serving it.

There seems to be a lot of conflicting info on this, I think the behavior has changed recently, and maybe the version GH is using is able to output a file with no extension? I did not think that was the case.

more reading:

http://overengineer.net/pretty-extensionless-urls-in-github-pages-using-jekyll/

Jekyll extension-less permalinks with markdown