Using GitHub Actions to deploy my blog into different domains

Written in May 15, 2021 - 🕒 1 min. read

Today I decided to deploy my blog to my GitHub Pages address, blopa.github.io, in addition to my normal pablo.gg deploy, but how can I do that?

First I created a repo called username.github.io, where username is your GitHub username:

Now on the repo where my source files are I need to add a new GitHub Actions file, let’s call it deploy-to-github.io.yml:

name: deploy-to-github.io.yml
on:
  workflow_dispatch:
  push:
    branches:
      - main

jobs:
  build-and-deploy:
    runs-on: ubuntu-latest
    steps:
      - name: Checkout
        uses: actions/[email protected]
        with:
          persist-credentials: false

      - name: Install and Build 🚧
        run: |
          npm cache clean --force
          npm install
          npm run clean
          npm run build
          rm -rf CNAME

      - name: Deploy 🚀
        uses: JamesIves/github-pages-deploy-[email protected]
        with:
          token: ${{ secrets.ACCESS_TOKEN }}
          repository-name: blopa/blopa.github.io
          branch: gh-pages
          folder: public
          clean: true
          single-commit: true

This will build and deploy my code into another GitHub repo called blopa/pablo.gg. For this to work I needed to create a personal access token and then add it to my repo secrets as ACCESS_TOKEN.

Since I also deploy my regular build to another GitHub repo, this is my GitHub Action file for that:

name: deploy-to-gg.yml
on:
  workflow_dispatch:
  push:
    branches:
      - main

jobs:
  build-and-deploy:
    runs-on: ubuntu-latest
    steps:
      - name: Checkout
        uses: actions/[email protected]
        with:
          persist-credentials: false

      - name: Install and Build 🚧
        run: |
          npm cache clean --force
          npm install
          npm run clean
          npm run build

      - name: Deploy 🚀
        uses: JamesIves/github-pages-deploy-[email protected]
        with:
          token: ${{ secrets.ACCESS_TOKEN }}
          repository-name: blopa/pablo.gg
          branch: gh-pages
          folder: public
          clean: true
          single-commit: true

That’s it! Now whenever I push to the main branch in my source repo, it will deploy my website to github.com/blopa/pablo.gg and github.com/blopa/blopa.github.io in the gh-pages branch.

pablo.gg

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