Private pages for a private Github repo

Question

Couldn\'t find anything in the github documentation and also here on SO. But I was wondering if there could be a http://foo.github.com for a private repository

Answer 1

The page.github.com does mention:

Github Pages are hosted free and easily published through our site,

Without ever mentioning access control.

The GitHub page help doesn't mention any ACL either.
They are best managed in a gh-pages branch, and can be managed in their own submodule.
But again, without any restriction in term of visibility once published by GitHub.

Answer 2

You could host password in a repository and then just hide the page behind hidden address, that is derived from that password. This is not a very secure way, but it is simple.

Demonstration

Answer 3

I had raised a support ticket against Github and got a response confirming the fact that ALL pages are public. I've now requested them to add a note to help.github.com/pages.

Answer 4

There is an article with a working idea on how to request oAuth authorization before loading static content dynamically:

Securing Site That Runs on Github Pages With JSON Backend In Private Repository

Content should be stored in a secret GitHub repository with a viewer having read access to it. GitHub pages stores only the serving JS code.

Answer 5

If you press admin on a private repo and scroll down to the part about pages, it writes that it'll be public. I'll check later if .htaccess control or similar is possible, but I don't have much hope for it.

Answer 6

At the moment it is not possible to do that.

However, in the official GitHub public roadmap we can see that this will finally be implemented in Q4 / 2020 for Enterprise Cloud customers.

From the issue description:

Intended Outcome

In cases where organizations want to build an intranet site or publish internal documentation, private pages will allow organization to keep the content private to their organizations.