Do symbolic links work with GitHub Pages?
YES! but only in non-jekyll mode.
The key is to place a empty file .nojekyll in root folder of gh-pages.
(That will disable the jekyll support of your github pages site.)
- This:
http://sidnicious.github.io/gh-pages-symlink-test/link.txt
... is an exact copy of this:
http://sidnicious.github.io/gh-pages-symlink-test/target.txt
- This
http://sidnicious.github.io/gh-pages-symlink-test/docs/current/
... goes to:
http://sidnicious.github.io/gh-pages-symlink-test/docs/hello/