Jekyll not showing page1 in index.html - jekyll

Question

Pagination works locally when i jekyll serve such that I get index.html with my first page of posts, but when i push and travis builds and then deploys the site, the home page lacks the first 10 posts. If I navigate to /page2 the 11-20 posts are there.
I noticed that the index.html in my source is not being rendered at all when i deploy. But it is being rendered when i serve locally.
What could cause the first page of posts to not render at all?
Here is my _config.yml setting
paginate: 10
paginate_path: "page:num"
here is my ci build script
#!/usr/bin/env bash
set -e # halt script on error
gem install jekyll-paginate
bundle update
bundle exec jekyll build
Here is what shows up on the index.html. Yet if i go to /page2 manually, the 11-20 posts show up. So its just something with the first page
UPDATE: I just checked on the server and the ./_site/index.html file is being generated properly. But the index.html that ends up in the root has no paging, no pages ... looks like the image above. I'm not sure why it is not being put in the root.

Answer 1

try this way:
change to paginate_path: "/page:num" , in _config.yml
and also add
<div class="pagination">
{% if paginator.previous_page %}<a class="new" href="{{ paginator.previous_page_path }}"></i> newst post </a>{% endif %}
{% if paginator.previous_page %} {%if paginator.next_page %} <span class="sep"></span> {% endif %}{% endif %}
{% if paginator.next_page %}<a class="olderpage" href="{{ paginator.next_page_path }}">oldest post</i> </a>{% endif %}
in last line of index.html