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  You have pushed your code, verified your commits, and navigated to your GitHub Pages URL, only to be greeted by a 404 error stating   "There isn't a GitHub Pages site here." This is the most common hurdle for students and beginners deploying their first portfolio or project. It usually does not mean your code is broken. It means the mapping between GitHub’s routing service and your repository’s file structure is misaligned. This guide provides the technical root cause analysis and the exact configuration steps required to resolve this error for HTML and Jekyll projects. Root Cause Analysis: The "Source" Disconnect To fix the problem, you must understand how GitHub Pages serves content. Unlike a dynamic server (like Node.js or PHP) that processes requests on the fly, GitHub Pages is a static file server. It looks for an entry point—specifically an  index.html  file—in a specific location. The "There isn't a GitHub Pages site here" error occurs whe...