GitHub page build fails (jekyll, theme: minima, gh-pages branch)

[NicoleEic]

Hello GitHub community,

I’m having trouble publishing a site using GitHub pages and none of the forum articles seemed to provide a solution, so far. I’m a beginner, so my apologies, if this is a duplicate.

The source for my page is the gh-pages branch of my repository: 

https://github.com/NicoleEic/Brain_and_Code/tree/gh-pages

I have changed the settings to use the gh-pages branch to build the site (-> Your site is published at https://nicoleeic.github.io/Brain_and_Code/)

However, when I navigate to the URL shown above, I can only access the ‘home’ site, which looks like something was wrong with the layout. Also, the link to the individual posts gives me a 404 error.

I suspect that the problem has something to do with the theme and layout. I’m using the ‘minima’ theme, so I have the following line in my Gemfile: 

gem "minima"

and in my _config.yml file:

theme: minima

I don’t have a _layouts subfolder, because I understood that this is not needed, when I use the default themes.

The local build of the page on my computer works fine: 

Brain_and_Code(gh-pages)
==>$ git pull
Already up to date.
Brain_and_Code(gh-pages)

==>$ bundle exec jekyll serve

Configuration file: /xxx/Brain_and_Code/_config.yml

Source: /xxx/Brain_and_Code

Destination: /xxx/Brain_and_Code/_site

Incremental build: disabled. Enable with --incremental

Generating...

Jekyll Feed: Generating feed for posts

done in 0.791 seconds.

Auto-regeneration: enabled for '/xxx/Brain_and_Code'

Server address: http://xxx.x.x.x:4000/

Server running... press ctrl-c to stop.

Any comments on what I might be doing wrong would be greatly appreciated!
Would any additional information from my side be useful to pin down the problem?

Thanks,

Nicole

[yabberish]

Seems to be working fine for me.

[NicoleEic]

Thanks for looking into this!

Actually, with the help of alvinsight I found the problem, which were relative URLs.

The ‘baseurl’ in the _config.yml file was not defined.

I have changed it to:

baseurl: "Brain_and_Code"

and updated all relative paths to images, etc. and everything looks fine now.