Deployed on Github, getting 404'd

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Hello guys, need a little help here.

I deployed my blog to Github: https://github.com/joaoeira/joaoeira.github.io

And while it isn’t spewing out build errors as it was before, it still isn’t displaying the site when I go to joaoeira.github.io. Can someone help me here?

I am completely new to git so if you want me to do something fairly complex I would need detailed instructions.

Here’s my config.toml:

baseurl = "http://joaoeira.github.io"
title = "Lettuce be Cereal"
author = "João Eira"
copyright = "Your Copyright"
# canonifyurls = true
paginate = 5
PygmentsCodeFences = false

googleAnalytics = ""

contentdir = "content/post"
layoutdir = "layouts"
publishdir = "public"

theme = "strange-case"

[params]
    colorScheme = "scheme-darkbrown"
    DateFormat = "2 Jan 2006"
    description ="João Eira is a Master's student in Economics at Universidade de Coimbra."
    sidebarDescription = "João Eira's personal blog"
    sidebarFreeText =  "\"Shared fictions are the necessary condition of social coordination.\""
    piwikSiteID = ""
    piwikURL = ""
    

[[menu.main]]
    name = "About"
    url = "http://joaoeira.com"

[[menu.main]]
    name = "Twitter"
    url = "http://twitter.com/joaoeira"

If my memory serves me right, here are the commands I did from begin to end to get the blog in Github (the submodule thing I did in my themes folder):

git submodule add https://github.com/ExchangeRate-API/strange-case.git
git remote add origin https://github.com/joaoeira/joaoeira.github.io.git
hugo -t strange-case
git add .
git commit -m "first commit"
git push origin master

And that’s it. I’m at my wits end honestly, I consider myself fairly proficient with technology but git is kicking my ass.

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Checking this from my phone, but in order to host Hugo on GH pages you need to have the built site on a branch specifically titled “gh-pages” since GitHub does not automatically support Hugo the way it does Jekyll. That said, I’ve heard good things about gitlab pages, which does have native support for Hugo.

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Yup, I’ve said good things about gitlab pages, which does have native support for Hugo. :slightly_smiling:

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I only use Gitlab because they let you have free private repositories.

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I am trying to do it in Gitlab but it comes up with his error:

=============================================================
Your rendered home page is blank: /index.html is zero-length

  • Did you specify a theme on the command-line or in your
    "config.toml" file? (Current theme: “strange-case”)
  • For more debugging information, run “hugo -v”
    =============================================================

which is weird because it specifies the theme by saying theme = “strange-case”.

One thing that I do seem to have different is that in my repository it shows themes -> strange-case (and the strange-case folder is weird, it’s like a link to another repository) while in the example repository the folder present is themes/lanyon with the layout and static folders there. I don’t know why mine is different. Any thoughts?

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Managed to make gitlab give me a more detailed error message:

INFO: 2016/11/02 20:42:23 hugo.go:463: Using config file: /builds/joaoeira/hugo/config.toml
WARN: 2016/11/02 20:42:23 hugo.go:547: Unable to find static directory for theme strange-case in /builds/joaoeira/hugo/themes/strange-case/static
INFO: 2016/11/02 20:42:23 hugo.go:571: /builds/joaoeira/hugo/static/ is the only static directory available to sync from
INFO: 2016/11/02 20:42:23 hugo.go:609: syncing static files to /builds/joaoeira/hugo/public/
Started building site

Someone? Obviously there’s a static folder inside themes/strange-case which is what’s weird. Even tried to create a new static folder, copy paste things, but nothing changes.