Using Github Actions with Lektor CMS

Question

Basically i have a Lektor project, and i'm trying to to use Github Actions for deployment to Github Pages

But the publish always fail with this message fatal: could not read Username for 'https://github.com': No such device or address

Here is the complete log :

Run lektor deploy ghpages-https
/opt/hostedtoolcache/Python/3.11.3/x64/lib/python3.11/site-packages/lektor/publisher.py:657: DeprecationWarning: 'werkzeug.urls.url_parse' is deprecated and will be removed in Werkzeug 3.0. Use 'urllib.parse.urlsplit' instead.
  url = urls.url_parse(str(target))
/opt/hostedtoolcache/Python/3.11.3/x64/lib/python3.11/site-packages/werkzeug/urls.py:545: DeprecationWarning: 'werkzeug.urls.URL' is deprecated and will be removed in Werkzeug 3.0. Use the 'urllib.parse' library instead.
  return result_type(scheme, netloc, url, query, fragment)
Deploying to ghpages-https
  Build cache: /home/runner/.cache/lektor/builds/1e169503b08805b6925804c56b34ca69
  Target: ghpages+https://dzc0d3r/codeblog
  hint: Using 'master' as the name for the initial branch. This default branch name
  hint: is subject to change. To configure the initial branch name to use in all
  hint: of your new repositories, which will suppress this warning, call:
  hint:
  hint:     git config --global init.defaultBranch <name>
  hint:
  hint: Names commonly chosen instead of 'master' are 'main', 'trunk' and
  hint: 'development'. The just-created branch can be renamed via this command:
  hint:
  hint:     git branch -m <name>
  Initialized empty Git repository in /home/runner/work/codeblog/codeblog/temp/.deploytempbbbozlcm/scratch/.git/
  From https://github.com/dzc0d3r/codeblog
   * [new branch]      gh-pages   -> origin/gh-pages
/opt/hostedtoolcache/Python/3.11.3/x64/lib/python3.11/site-packages/werkzeug/urls.py:170: DeprecationWarning: 'werkzeug.urls.url_decode' is deprecated and will be removed in Werkzeug 2.4. Use 'urllib.parse.parse_qs' instead.
  return url_decode(self.query, *args, **kwargs)
  fatal: could not read Username for 'https://github.com': No such device or address
Done!

The publish.yml file :

name: Publish
on:
  push:
    branches:
      - main


jobs:
  publish:
    name: Publish site
    runs-on: ubuntu-latest
    steps:
    - uses: actions/checkout@v3
    - name: Set up Python
      uses: actions/setup-python@v1
      with:
        python-version: "3.X"
    - uses: actions/cache@v2
      with:
        key: ${{ github.ref }}
        path: .cache
    - name: Install dependencies
      run: |
        pip install --upgrade pip
        pip install --upgrade setuptools
        pip install -r requirements.txt
    - name: Build site
      run: |
        lektor plugins reinstall
        lektor build --no-prune


    - name: Publish site
      env:
        LEKTOR_DEPLOY_USERNAME: ${{ secrets.LEKTOR_DEPLOY_USERNAME }}
        LEKTOR_DEPLOY_PASSWORD: ${{ secrets.LEKTOR_DEPLOY_PASSWORD }}
      run: |
        lektor deploy ghpages-https

And this is the codeblog.lektorproject :

[project]
name = codeblog
url = https://dzc0d3r.github.io/codeblog/

[servers.ghpages]
target = ghpages://dzc0d3r/codeblog

[servers.ghpages-https]
target = ghpages+https://dzc0d3r/codeblog

[packages]
lektor-minify = 1.2
lektor-disqus-comments = 0.4.1
lektor-tags = 0.3

Any idea, help, step by step guide would be appreciated

Answer 1

Do you have 2FA? The lektor documentation states that if you have 2-factor authentication enabled you need a personal access token instead of the normal username and password when using HTTPS.

If I'm not mistaken the lektor website itself is built with lektor, hosted on GitHub Pages and deployed with GitHub Actions, so you can take a look at their workflow and .lektorproject file for some inspiration.

In their workflow they authenticate using the GITHUB_TOKEN secret as the personal access token. This secret is automatically created in every Actions workflow for authentication purposes, and can be accessed using ${{ secrets.GITHUB_TOKEN }}