adding yeoman to github pages blog

Question

I had a blog running at morenoh149.github.io I attempted to add yeoman to my workflow using jekyllrb generator. I followed the instructions by creating a new yeoman project, and copying over all the generated files and structure to my blog. But now github pages isn't picking up the blog. https://github.com/morenoh149/morenoh149.github.io

Anyone know how github pages works? the docs are sparse. I changed the source in my yml file to app/ as well. So now when I run jekyll locally it works. But when I push to github pages it's not.

_config.yml

# Jekyll configuration precedence:
# 1. Gruntfile task
# 2. config.build.yml
# 3. config.yml

name: morenoh149.blog.yeoman
url: morenoh149.github.io
description: Harry Moreno has a blog
author:
  name: Harry Moreno
  email: morenoh149@gmail.com

# Grunt handles images and assets.
exclude: ['img', 'css', 'js', 'fonts',
          '**.png', '**.jpg', '**.jpeg', '**.gif', '**.webp', '**.svg', '**.ico']

include: ['.htaccess']
source: app

# _config.build.yml sets future and show_drafts to false on `grunt build`
future: true
show_drafts: true

# Markdown library
markdown: redcarpet
#   extensions: ['fenced_code_blocks', 'smart']

pygments: true

Answer 1

It looks like GitHub Pages is serving files from your site (for instance, http://morenoh149.github.io/app/ is an html file with a single paragraph element) but it's not serving them properly with all the Jekyll magic.

It turns out that GitHub Pages will override the source setting in the config file. This means that while you've specified source: app, it's looking at your top-level directory for content.

The solution is to move the contents of your app directory into your top-level directory.