How to make the "shortcut" for gitlab pages available?

Question

I have the following project: gitlab.com/username/project with a set CI script that generates some artifacts in public.

All the artifacts are correctly generated, and I can access my static site at

username.gitlab.io/-/project/-/jobs/<job-id>/artifacts/public

But when I try to access it with

username.gitlab.io/project

as stated in the documentation, I get a 404 error.

How to enable this shortcut?

Answer 1

The job must be named pages to activate Gitlab Pages:

pages:
  stage: deploy
  script:
  - run script
  artifacts:
    paths:
    - public
  only:
  - master