Merge pull request withastro#43 from snowpackjs/gh-pages-nojekyll

Update GitHub Pages deployment guide
ansango · Jul 1, 2021 · 47c7923 · 47c7923
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@@ -35,7 +35,8 @@ By default, the build output will be placed at `dist/`. You may deploy this `dis
 ## GitHub Pages
 
 1. Set the correct `buildOptions.site` in `astro.config.js`.
-2. Inside your project, create `deploy.sh` with the following content (uncommenting the appropriate lines), and run it to deploy:
+2. Run `touch public/.nojekyll` to create a `.nojekyll` file in `public/`. This [bypasses GitHub Page's default behavior](https://github.blog/2009-12-29-bypassing-jekyll-on-github-pages/) to ignore paths prefixed with `_`.
+3. Inside your project, create `deploy.sh` with the following content (uncommenting the appropriate lines), and run it to deploy:
 
    ```bash{13,20,23}
    #!/usr/bin/env sh