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GitLab pages

With GitLab Pages, you can publish static websites directly from a repository in GitLab.

  • Use for any personal or business website.
  • Use any Static Site Generator (SSG) or plain HTML.
  • Create websites for your projects, groups, or user account.
  • Host your site on your own GitLab instance or on GitLab.com for free.
  • Connect your custom domains and TLS certificates.
  • Attribute any license to your content.
  • Examples of SSGs supported by Pages
  • To publish a website with Pages, you can use any SSG, like Gatsby, Jekyll, Hugo, Middleman, Harp, Hexo, and Brunch, just to name a few.

You can also publish any website written directly in plain HTML, CSS, and JavaScript.

Pages does not support dynamic server-side processing, for instance, as .php and .asp requires.

How it works

To use GitLab Pages, you must create a project in GitLab to upload your website’s files to. These projects can be either public, internal, or private.

GitLab always deploys your website from a very specific folder called public in your repository. When you create a new project in GitLab, a repository becomes available automatically.

To deploy your site, GitLab uses its built-in tool called GitLab CI/CD to build your site and publish it to the GitLab Pages server. The sequence of scripts that GitLab CI/CD runs to accomplish this task is created from a file named .gitlab-ci.yml, which you can create and modify at will. A specific job called pages in the configuration file will make GitLab aware that you are deploying a GitLab Pages website.

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