Github Pages not detecting that repo name is my username

Question

I'm trying to set up a site with Github pages.

My Github username has a mix of capital and lowercase.

Every way I have tried naming the repo results in it publishing at "username.github.io/username" rather than "username.github.io".

Renaming the repo with all lowercase has the same result. Does anybody have an idea?

Answer 1

The answer is sumple: The domain needs to be included.

Name your repo jrhutson.github.io instead of JRHutson.

This will link your repository to the URL https://jrhutson.github.io and not https://jrhutson.github.io/JRHutson.

See https://pages.github.com/ (step 1) for reference.