# Website builds locally, but not with GitHub Actions

**URL:** <https://zola.discourse.group/t/website-builds-locally-but-not-with-github-actions/1249>\
**Category:** Support\
**Created:** [March 28, 2022, 1:50am UTC](https://zola.discourse.group/t/website-builds-locally-but-not-with-github-actions/1249 "2022-03-28T01:50:41Z")\
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**Author:** ![cadojo](https://yyz2.discourse-cdn.com/free1/user_avatar/zola.discourse.group/cadojo/32/703_2.png) [@cadojo](https://zola.discourse.group/u/cadojo)\
**Post date:** [March 28, 2022, 1:50am UTC](https://zola.discourse.group/t/website-builds-locally-but-not-with-github-actions/1249/1 "2022-03-28T01:50:41Z")

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My site builds locally, but when I try to deploy with GitHub Actions, I get the following error.  
The full log is available [here](https://github.com/cadojo/cadojo.github.io/runs/5713373372?check_suite_focus=true#step:7:203).

```auto
Failed to build the site
Error: Failed to render section '/github/workspace/content/_index.md'
Reason: Failed to render 'index.html': error while rendering macro `macros_header::header` (error happened in a parent template)
Reason: Variable `config.default_language` not found in context while rendering 'macros/header.html'

```

I set `default_language` in my `config.toml`.

```auto
# The URL the site will be built for
base_url = "jcarpinelli.dev"

# Open source theme
theme = "adidoks"

title = "Home"
description = "A personal website which serves as a portfolio, and a publishing platform for open-source software documentation, educational content and blog posts."

# Whether to automatically compile all Sass files in the sass directory
compile_sass = true
minify_html = true
generate_feed = true
feed_filename = "rss.xml"

# Whether to build a search index to be used later on by a JavaScript library
build_search_index = true

[markdown]
# Whether to do syntax highlighting
# Theme can be customised by setting the `highlight_theme` variable to a theme supported by Zola
highlight_code = true

# The default language; used in feeds and search index
# Note: the search index doesn't support Chinese/Japanese/Korean Languages
default_language = "en"

[search]
# Whether to include the title of the page/section in the index
include_title = true
# Whether to include the description of the page/section in the index
include_description = false
# Whether to include the rendered content of the page/section in the index
include_content = true

[extra]
# Put all your custom variables here
author = "Joey Carpinelli"
github = "https://github.com/cadojo"
twitter = "https://twitter.com/code_typed"
email = "joe.cadojo@icloud.com"

# If running on netlify.app site, set to true
is_netlify = false

# Set HTML file language
language_code = "en-US"

# Set theme-color meta tag for Chrome browser
theme_color = "#fff"

# More about site's title
title_separator = "|" # set as |, -, _, etc
title_addition = "Joe(y) Carpinelli"

# Set date format in blog publish metadata
timeformat = "%Y-%m-%d" # e.g. 2021-05-01 09:19:42
timezone = "UTC"

# Edit page on reposity or not
edit_page = false
docs_repo = "https://github.com/cadojo/cadojo.github.io"
repo_branch = "main"

## Math settings
# options: true, false. Enable math support globally,
# default: false. You can always enable math on a per page.
math = false
library = "katex" # options: "katex", "mathjax". default is "katex".

## Open Graph + Twitter Cards
[extra.open]
enable = true
# this image will be used as fallback if a page has no image of its own
image = "doks.png"
twitter_site = "code_typed"
twitter_creator = "code_typed"
facebook_author = ""
facebook_publisher = ""
og_locale = "en_US"

## JSON-LD
[extra.schema]
type = "Organization"
logo = "logo-doks.png"
twitter = "https://twitter.com/code_typed"
linked_in = ""
github = "https://github.com/code_typed"
section = "blog" # see config.extra.main~url
## Sitelinks Search Box
site_links_search_box = false

[[extra.menu.social]]
name = "Twitter"
pre = '<svg xmlns="http://www.w3.org/2000/svg" width="20" height="20" viewBox="0 0 24 24" fill="none" stroke="currentColor" stroke-width="2" stroke-linecap="round" stroke-linejoin="round" class="feather feather-twitter"><path d="M23 3a10.9 10.9 0 0 1-3.14 1.53 4.48 4.48 0 0 0-7.86 3v1A10.66 10.66 0 0 1 3 4s-4 9 5 13a11.64 11.64 0 0 1-7 2c9 5 20 0 20-11.5a4.5 4.5 0 0 0-.08-.83A7.72 7.72 0 0 0 23 3z"></path></svg>'
url = "https://twitter.com/code_typed"
weight = 10

[[extra.menu.social]]
name = "GitHub"
pre = '<svg xmlns="http://www.w3.org/2000/svg" width="20" height="20" viewBox="0 0 24 24" fill="none" stroke="currentColor" stroke-width="2" stroke-linecap="round" stroke-linejoin="round" class="feather feather-github"><path d="M9 19c-5 1.5-5-2.5-7-3m14 6v-3.87a3.37 3.37 0 0 0-.94-2.61c3.14-.35 6.44-1.54 6.44-7A5.44 5.44 0 0 0 20 4.77 5.07 5.07 0 0 0 19.91 1S18.73.65 16 2.48a13.38 13.38 0 0 0-7 0C6.27.65 5.09 1 5.09 1A5.07 5.07 0 0 0 5 4.77a5.44 5.44 0 0 0-1.5 3.78c0 5.42 3.3 6.61 6.44 7A3.37 3.37 0 0 0 9 18.13V22"></path></svg>'
url = "https://github.com/cadojo"
post = "v0.1.0"
weight = 20

# Footer contents
[extra.footer]
info = '© Joey Carpinelli. Website generated with <a href="https://www.getzola.org/">Zola</a>, and <a href="https://github.com/aaranxu/adidoks">AdiDoks!</a>'

```

I suspect the issue has something to do with GitHub’s expected root directory not matching Zola’s, but I’m not sure how to correct this. I include a `CNAME` file at the root of `static`, as instructed in the documentation.

The site source code is available at [GitHub - cadojo/cadojo.github.io: Personal sites, repository documentation, and (one day, maybe) more!](https://github.com/cadojo/cadojo.github.io). Does anyone see anything glaring?

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**Author:** ![keats](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/34f0e0/32.png) [@keats](https://zola.discourse.group/u/keats)\
**Post date:** [March 28, 2022, 9:42am UTC](https://zola.discourse.group/t/website-builds-locally-but-not-with-github-actions/1249/2 "2022-03-28T09:42:05Z")

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> [@cadojo](#):
>
> ```auto
> # The default language; used in feeds and search index
> # Note: the search index doesn't support Chinese/Japanese/Korean Languages
> default_language = "en"
> 
> ```

You put it in the `markdown` section, you have it put it out of any sections, like below `build_search_index = true`.