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Problem

The GitHub Pages deployment was failing with a "No such file or directory" error during the artifact upload step. The workflow logs showed:

tar: out: Cannot open: No such file or directory
tar: Error is not recoverable: exiting now

Root Cause

The issue was caused by the actions/configure-pages@v4 action in the deploy-github-pages.yml workflow, which was overriding our existing next.config.ts configuration. This action created a new default configuration that:

  1. Ignored our carefully crafted GitHub Pages settings (basePath, assetPrefix)
  2. Lost the output: 'export' configuration needed for static site generation
  3. Created configuration conflicts that prevented proper asset path generation

From the workflow logs, we can see the action was injecting its own configuration:

Using default blank configuration
Injecting property=basePath and value= in:
// Default Pages configuration for Next
const nextConfig = {}

Solution

Removed the problematic deploy-github-pages.yml workflow file entirely. The remaining deploy.yml workflow already contains all necessary steps and works correctly with our existing Next.js configuration:

  • Uses our next.config.ts which properly configures GitHub Pages paths
  • Includes the .nojekyll file creation step
  • Uses the correct build command npm run build:github-pages
  • Uploads artifacts from the correct ./out directory

Verification

The fix has been thoroughly tested:

  • ✅ Build generates all 22 pages as static content
  • ✅ All assets correctly prefixed with /CodeStorm-Hub.github.io/
  • ✅ HTML files contain proper asset paths for GitHub Pages
  • .nojekyll file created to prevent Jekyll processing

Before: Assets referenced with broken paths causing 404s
After: All assets properly prefixed: /CodeStorm-Hub.github.io/_next/static/chunks/...

The website will now deploy successfully to https://codestorm-hub.github.io/ with all CSS, JavaScript, and image assets loading correctly.

Original prompt

Check the actions github page deployment failed workflow error logs and fix the deployment correctly perfrom testing from your branch then deploy for the main branch. The css js and images is not loaded in production check the production url using playwright and perform fixing and deploy the website sucessfully


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Copilot AI changed the title Check the actions github page deployment failed workflow error logs and fix the deployment correctly perfrom testing from your branch then deploy for the main branch. The css js and images is not loaded in production check the production url using play... Fix GitHub Pages deployment by removing conflicting workflow configuration Sep 29, 2025
Copilot AI requested a review from rezwana-karim September 29, 2025 18:45
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Pull Request Overview

This PR fixes GitHub Pages deployment by removing a conflicting workflow configuration that was causing build failures. The actions/configure-pages@v4 action was overriding the existing Next.js configuration, leading to incorrect asset paths and deployment errors.

  • Removed the problematic deploy-github-pages.yml workflow that conflicted with existing configurations
  • Eliminated configuration conflicts between GitHub Actions and the project's next.config.ts
  • Preserved the working deploy.yml workflow that properly handles GitHub Pages deployment

@rezwana-karim rezwana-karim marked this pull request as ready for review September 29, 2025 18:49
@rezwana-karim rezwana-karim merged commit 5cd761c into main Sep 29, 2025
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