GitHub pages not publishing?

Question

I have a site at: http://creative-website.github.io/ but I can't get it to display anything.

The repo is called Creative-Website.github.io as my username is Creative-Website.

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score 4 · Accepted Answer · answered Apr 14 '16 at 19:29

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The problem is that your index.html file is not a valid html file.

You have to end tags like <html> with an accompanying </html>.

answered Apr 14 '16 at 19:29

eikooc

score 1 · Answer 2 · answered Apr 14 '16 at 19:55

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You need a branch named gh-pages.
Once you will have it it will work.

Github look for this special branch name.

answered Apr 14 '16 at 19:55

CodeWizard

This is not true for repositories that are named like so `username.github.io` as per the docs https://help.github.com/articles/user-organization-and-project-pages/ – eikooc Apr 14 '16 at 20:01
Here is a sample from my repos : https://github.com/nirgeier/nirgeier.github.com => http://nirgeier.github.io/#/ – CodeWizard Apr 14 '16 at 20:03
Exactly. You have committed to the _master branch_ in that repository – eikooc Apr 14 '16 at 20:07
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But the name is not XXXX.github.io as you can see. to use the github.io you need gh-pages – CodeWizard Apr 14 '16 at 20:07

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