Build task removes unrelated file

#1

I’m using Github pages to host my middleman server. It is working great!

I’m running into a problem, however. I’ve added a CNAME for my site, which on Github means that a CNAME file is created by Github in the root of the HTML structure.

When I run bundle exec middleman build the site builds, however, the CNAME file Github had added gets deleted.

$ bundle exec middleman build
      ...
      create  build/index.html
      remove  build/CNAME

How can I configure middleman to ignore this file and not delete it? Right now I just reset the file every time I commit… which is very error prone.

#2

It does look like I can use bundle exec middleman build --no-clean to prevent cleaning of files. This will result in old/un-used files from potentially making it into the build, but that is better than resetting the file in git on every build/commit.

A better fix looks like I can just create the CNAME file in my source directory, and it will get copied over. Leaving this post up for anyone who runs into it later.

#3

Yes, all static cruft like favicon.ico, BingSiteAuth.xml or robots.txt should be put in source and they will be copied-over to build.

As a sidenote, if you’re using the google-site-verification HTML files and middleman-search_engine_sitemap extension, you don’t want your verification file to be added to sitemap. So add .erb extension to your google6d4x95dxedfed4x1.html file and add a proper frontmatter to it, like:

---
hide_from_sitemap: true
---

google-site-verification: google6d4x95dxedfed4x1.html