How to add .well-known on Github Pages files using html

Question

I have a html website on github page, i want to deep link it with my app using .well-known file, the problem is github pages doesn't serve folders starting with a period (eg, .well-known), so I'm unable to verify my domain. I see this topic but it is not html i try to add include: [".well-known"] on _config.yml but it won't solve the problem, i there a solution to this on html.

Tumor

is .well-known a file or a directory? – Asterism

Any repository url ? This can help to debug. – Inexpedient

Answer 1

This here is an answer but remember to remove the space inside _config.yml file make sure there is only 1 line of code like this include: [".well-known"] and not like this

include: [".well-known"]
 

Make sure you don't have even a white space like this

include: [".well-known"]

Tumor

The extra whitespace doesn't matter – Bikales

In my case it was totally opposite. Adding LF at the end helped. When it was only 1 line (without LF at the end) - it didn't work... – Anthracite

In my case, removing the white space is what made it work. Thanks! – Larkspur

Importantly, _config.yml needs to be in the source directory, which might not be the repository root (e.g. in my case, I’m serving up the site from /docs). And whitespace doesn’t seem to matter. – Parget

Answer 2

For sites that are NOT using Jekyll:

Add a new empty file called .nojekyll to your project

Explanation:

Jekyll processing stops the .well-known directory from appearing on your live site. The .nojekyll file stops this from happening.

Orthman

Answer 3

Create a new file in the name of _config.yml in your root folder and paste following code

include:
  - ".well-known"

Trina

Answer 4

So it turns out that GitHub does serve folders with period(.) but Jekyll is actually blocking that.

https://github.com/orgs/community/discussions/22227

This should resolve your issue.

Wearisome

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