FAQ

Can I publish content from a different organization or my personal account?

Generally no, although there is precedent for publishing NIST-related content from a non-USNISTGOV GitHub organization that is highly related to NIST business and is appropriate to publish under the nist.gov domain, but a special exception would have to be made. Contact pages@nist.gov if you believe you have such a case.

What was the URL for the build report?

https://pages.nist.gov/REPO/build.log

What URL should I publish?

Usually the root page of your repo: https://pages.nist.gov/REPO

Is there a template for starting a new Pages site?

The most complete (but older) Jekyll template is still https://github.com/usnistgov/Pages-Template . You could start by downloading a zip of that repository into a new empty git repo and using that as a starting point.

For those who are comfortable with GitHub and Jekyll already and don't want the overhead of that project, we're starting to move toward using the instructions at https://pages.nist.gov/nist-header-footer (https://github.com/usnistgov/nist-header-footer). We may eventually change the Pages-Template template to use this same method of linking in the required NIST headers/footers/exit scripts, rather than making separate copies for every repo.

There are big advantages of using the latter method:

• Trivial to set up - paste 3 lines into your template(s) HEAD section and it just works
• No files to copy into your repo
• That means you don't need to do anything when they're updated