If your GitHub Enterprise Pages code references a file that doesn't exist in your _includes directory, your GitHub Enterprise Pages site will not build.
If you reference a file that doesn't exist in your _includes directory, you'll get an email that looks like this:
Subject: Page build failed
The page build failed with the following error:
A file was included in `example.html` that does not exist in your `_includes` directory
You will only receive an email if outbound email support is enabled on your Enterprise instance. For more information, contact your site administrator.
Troubleshooting a nonexistent file error
We strongly recommend running Jekyll locally so you can easily debug and fix build errors before pushing to your GitHub Enterprise instance.
- Use your favorite text editor to open the file mentioned in the build failure email.
- Search for the
includetag to see where you've referenced other files. For example:{% include example_header.html %}. - If you've referenced any files that aren't in the _includes directory of your GitHub Enterprise Pages repository, you will need to copy or move them into the _includes directory. If the files don't exist at all, you will need to create them.
- Commit the changes and push them to your GitHub Enterprise Pages repository to trigger another build on the server.
