Github Pages are not published after following the documentation

[dotnetjunkie]

I know this question has been asked several times before, but none of the answers given seem to fix my problem. I followed the documentation (or at least, I believe I did, as I read through it several times), but I seem to be missing something:

What have I got:

• The account: https://github.com/simpleinjector/
• The public repository: https://github.com/simpleinjector/simpleinjector.github.io
• A master branch in that simpleinjector.github.io repository
• The GitHub Pages settings of the simpleinjector.github.io repository is set to the master branch, and state that "Your GitHub Pages site is currently being built from the master branch."
• I last pushed html files to simpleinjector.github.io 18 hours ago.

This is my current GitHub Pages settings tab:

What I haven't got:

• The GitHub Page https://simpleinjector.github.io/ keeps giving a 404, even after 20 hours of first pushing files to the repository.
• The GitHub Page settings does not state that the build failed, nor that it succeeded. I've seen screenshots on Stack Overflow that show that the settings tab should show either a success or error message. This indicates to me that for some reason Github has no idea that this repository should be the GitHub Page repo.

There must be something I am forgetting, but I feel that I followed the documentation to the letter. Can anyone point out my mistake?

[RDIL]

Are you trying to directly go to https://username.github.io/index.html ?

[dotnetjunkie]

Absolutely. The following link does not serve the index.html as you would expect:

• https://simpleinjector.github.io/index.html

It think this proves the repository is not published on github.io.

[dotnetjunkie · Accepted solution]

In order for your site to be published, a Jekyll theme must be chosen, even if you don't use Jekyll at all.

[karinwallin]

SOLVED

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[laurenwestonn]

WOW this actually made my site show up. THANK YOU.

I've been trying all sorts to get my site to show. Who knew you had to set a theme?! How does that make any sense?! I've not read that anywhere else

[Tom-Okafor]

please how long did it take for the site to show up after selecting the theme