CNAME file

[nickt...@gmail.com]

As per the handbook, I added a CNAME file in the files/ directory in the src branch, but this is not copied to the root directory of the master branch (as is required by Github pages) when running github_deploy. I also cannot find anything referring to "CNAME" in the nikola source. I'm wondering if CNAME files are still being handled in Nikola. I currently use Nikola 7.8.11.

[Chris Warrick]

Those files are not handled in any special way. If you put a file in
the `files` directory, it will be copied as-is to the output. Are you
sure that:

1) you ran `nikola build` after adding that file?
2) FILES_FOLDERS was not changed in your conf.py?

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[Roberto Alsina]

I cant give you the details because I am on a train but check the manual. You need to change where the files are copied to.

El mar., 20 de mar. de 2018 8:57 AM, <nickt...@gmail.com> escribió:

The file is correctly copied the files/ folder of the output directory. Github pages requires the CNAME file to be in the root directory instead, so I was expecting Nikola would handle the file in a special way. I'm wondering if there is a workaround. Pushing the file to master does not work as running github_deploy will remove the pushed file.

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[Roberto Alsina]

Ok, here is the thing. By default, doing what you did should work. I can confirm it works because I just tried it (see long block of text at the end of mail).

However, it does look like you edited your FILES setting. The default is

FILES = {'files': ''}

That means "take the content of the files folder and copy it to the output". Seems you have changed it to 

FILES = {'files': 'files'}

That means "take the content of the files folder and copy it to the output in the files subfolder"

So, put it back as it was and all good.

Here is how it works by default:

 nikola  ~/P/nikola   master ±  nikola init -q foo2

[2018-03-20T15:14:15Z] INFO: init: Created empty site at foo2.

 nikola  ~/P/nikola   master ±  cd foo2

 nikola  ~/P/n/foo2   master ±  touch files/CNAME

 nikola  ~/P/n/foo2   master ±  nikola build

Scanning posts........done!

.  copy_files:output/CNAME

.  copy_assets:output/assets/css/bootstrap.min.css.map

.  copy_assets:output/assets/css/docs.css

.  copy_assets:output/assets/css/bootstrap-theme.min.css.map

.  copy_assets:output/assets/css/bootstrap-theme.min.css

.  copy_assets:output/assets/css/bootstrap.min.css

.  copy_assets:output/assets/css/theme.css

.  copy_assets:output/assets/css/images/ie6/borderTopLeft.png

.  copy_assets:output/assets/css/images/ie6/borderTopCenter.png

.  copy_assets:output/assets/css/images/ie6/borderMiddleRight.png

.  copy_assets:output/assets/css/images/ie6/borderBottomRight.png

.  copy_assets:output/assets/css/images/ie6/borderBottomLeft.png

.  copy_assets:output/assets/css/images/ie6/borderBottomCenter.png

.  copy_assets:output/assets/css/images/ie6/borderTopRight.png

.  copy_assets:output/assets/css/images/ie6/borderMiddleLeft.png

.  copy_assets:output/assets/js/jquery.min.map

.  copy_assets:output/assets/js/jquery.min.js

.  copy_assets:output/assets/js/flowr.plugin.js

.  copy_assets:output/assets/js/bootstrap.min.js

.  copy_assets:output/assets/fonts/glyphicons-halflings-regular.woff

.  copy_assets:output/assets/fonts/glyphicons-halflings-regular.woff2

.  copy_assets:output/assets/fonts/glyphicons-halflings-regular.svg

.  copy_assets:output/assets/fonts/glyphicons-halflings-regular.ttf

.  copy_assets:output/assets/fonts/glyphicons-halflings-regular.eot

.  copy_assets:output/assets/css/rst_base.css

.  copy_assets:output/assets/css/baguetteBox.min.css

.  copy_assets:output/assets/css/ipython.min.css

.  copy_assets:output/assets/css/nikola_ipython.css

.  copy_assets:output/assets/css/nikola_rst.css

.  copy_assets:output/assets/css/rst.css

.  copy_assets:output/assets/css/html4css1.css

.  copy_assets:output/assets/xml/atom.xsl

.  copy_assets:output/assets/xml/rss.xsl

.  copy_assets:output/assets/js/flowr.js

.  copy_assets:output/assets/js/baguetteBox.min.js

.  copy_assets:output/assets/js/fancydates.js

.  copy_assets:output/assets/js/html5.js

.  copy_assets:output/assets/js/moment-with-locales.min.js

.  copy_assets:output/assets/js/html5shiv-printshiv.min.js

.  copy_assets:output/assets/css/code.css

.  render_posts:timeline_changes

.  render_galleries:output/galleries

.  render_galleries:output/galleries/index.html

.  render_galleries:output/galleries/rss.xml

.  render_listings:output/listings/index.html

.  render_taxonomies:output/archive.html

.  render_taxonomies:output/index.html

.  render_taxonomies:output/categories/index.html

.  render_taxonomies:output/rss.xml

.  create_bundles:output/assets/css/all-nocdn.css

.  create_bundles:output/assets/js/all.js

.  create_bundles:output/assets/css/all.css

.  create_bundles:output/assets/js/all-nocdn.js

.  sitemap:output/sitemap.xml

.  sitemap:output/sitemapindex.xml

.  robots_file:output/robots.txt

 nikola  ~/P/n/foo2   master ±  ls -l output/

total 40

-rw-r--r-- 1 ralsina domain^users 3085 mar 20 12:14 archive.html

drwxr-xr-x 6 ralsina domain^users 4096 mar 20 12:14 assets/

drwxr-xr-x 2 ralsina domain^users 4096 mar 20 12:14 categories/

-rw-r--r-- 1 ralsina domain^users    0 mar 20 12:14 CNAME

drwxr-xr-x 2 ralsina domain^users 4096 mar 20 12:14 galleries/

-rw-r--r-- 1 ralsina domain^users 3263 mar 20 12:14 index.html

drwxr-xr-x 2 ralsina domain^users 4096 mar 20 12:14 listings/

-rw-r--r-- 1 ralsina domain^users   79 mar 20 12:14 robots.txt

-rw-r--r-- 1 ralsina domain^users  726 mar 20 12:14 rss.xml

-rw-r--r-- 1 ralsina domain^users  711 mar 20 12:14 sitemapindex.xml

-rw-r--r-- 1 ralsina domain^users  864 mar 20 12:14 sitemap.xml