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title: "Deploying Quartz to the Web"
tags:

- setup

GitHub Pages

Quartz is designed to be effortless to deploy. If you forked and cloned Quartz directly from the repository, everything should already be good to go! Follow the steps below.

Enable GitHub Actions

By default, GitHub disables workflows from running automatically on Forked Repostories. Head to the 'Actions' tab of your forked repository and Enable Workflows to setup deploying your Quartz site!

*Enable GitHub Actions*

Enable GitHub Pages

Head to the 'Settings' tab of your forked repository and go to the 'Pages' tab.

1. (IMPORTANT) Set the source to deploy from master using / (root)
2. Set a custom domain here if you have one!

*Enable GitHub Pages*

Pushing Changes

To see your changes on the internet, we need to push it them to GitHub. Quartz is essentially a git repository so updating it is the same workflow as you would follow as normal.

# Navigate to Quartz folder
cd <path-to-quartz>

# Commit all changes
git add .
git commit -m "message describing changes"

# Push to GitHub to update site
git push origin hugo

Note: we specifically push to the hugo branch here. Our GitHub action automatically runs everytime a push to is detected to that branch and then updates the master branch for redeployment.

Setting up the Site

Now let's get this site up and running. Never hosted a site before? No problem. Have a fancy custom domain you already own or want to subdomain your Quartz? That's easy too.

Here, we take advantage of GitHub's free page hosting to deploy our site. Change baseURL in /config.toml.

Reference config.toml here

baseURL = "https://<YOUR-DOMAIN>/"

If you are using this under a subdomain (e.g. <YOUR-GITHUB-USERNAME>.github.io/quartz), include the trailing path.

baseURL = "https://<YOUR-GITHUB-USERNAME>.github.io/quartz/"

Change cname in /.github/workflows/deploy.yaml. Again, if you don't have a custom domain to use, you can use <YOUR-USERNAME>.github.io.

Reference deploy.yaml here

- name: Deploy  
  uses: peaceiris/actions-gh-pages@v3  
  with:  
	github_token: ${{ secrets.GITHUB_TOKEN }} # this can stay as is, GitHub fills this in for us!
	publish_dir: ./public  
	publish_branch: master
	cname: <YOUR-DOMAIN>

Have a custom domain? Learn how to set it up with Quartz .

Now that your Quartz is live, let's figure out how to make Quartz really yours!

🎨 Customizing Quartz

Having problems? Checkout our FAQ and Troubleshooting guide.