GitLab Pages

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GitLab Pages is a static content hosting service by GitLab.

Important differences to the older and more well-known GitHub Pages:

• Sites are build using GitLab's CI service and therefore can use any static site generator, vs only Jekyll on GitHub Pages. GitLab provides example repositories for many generators.

• GitLab Pages allows using custom domains with HTTPS

• Basic support for redirects

IndieWeb examples

If you use or have tried GitLab Pages, please include yourself here and/or add learnings to this page!

•   Jamie Tanna used to use it before Netlify was a thing.
• nolith has its personal site on GitLab Pages since 2020-10-13 (actually before, but it was not using microformats).
• ZodiacalComet uses it to host their website.

Limitations

Case-insensitive Redirects

While not mentioned in their documentation, they are case-insensitive. They will use the first definition that matches the current request URL with this in mind.

For instance, having the following content in _redirects:

/redirect/one /target/page
/redirect/ONE /other/target/page

Will make it so that /redirect/one, /redirect/ONE and anything in between that doesn't map to an existing file to redirect to /target/page.