Getting 404 on landing page for Octopress on Github

Question

I followed Octopress original documentation and this blog to setup on Github pages. However once I deploy it and go to my blog url I'm getting 404.

I verified the setup by running it locally on port 4000 and it's fine. Would appreciate any help to make it work. Following is the link for the source file.

Answer 1

I see you GitHub page at https://github.com/aniruddhabarapatre.

So your GitHub pages should be at http://aniruddhabarapatre.github.io/, not http://aniruddhab.github.io/.

The article you reference does mention:

Create a new GitHub repository. If you are creating a personal blog create a repo called:

username.github.com

With 'username' being your GitHub account username (here aniruddhabarapatre).

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Project pages (mentioned by Joel Glovier in the comments) is a good fit for your case, allowing you to:

• define a gh-pages branch in your https://github.com/aniruddhabarapatre/aniruddhab.github.io repo
• find the content of that branch published in http://aniruddhabarapatre.github.io/aniruddhab.github.io (meaning you might want to change the name of that aniruddhab.github.io repo)

But the idea remains: you already have one User Page. You cannot define a second one with the same account. Only project pages (one main page per project).