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Zach
Zach

Reputation: 1396

Jekyll installation isn't showing index page upon navigation

I have recently made a foray into the Jekyll world. I'm currently exploring this on a local Apache2 server running Bootstrap 3 with a simple responsive layout.

Installation Summary I just installed ruby, ruby-dev, gcc, make and all appropriate gems. The Jekyll installation guide was great to get it installed and such. I went ahead and create a new blog, 'sudo jekyll new blog' in /var/www/html. Now as, /var/www/html/blog.

Installation Directory about.md _config.yaml Gemfile Gemfile.block .gitignore index.md _posts .sass-cache _site/

Post Installation Configuration I've edited the _config.yaml file to establish base directories and such, everything looks appropriate.

I fire up the Jekyll instance via: sudo exec jykll serve, which is currently producing.

WARN: Unresolved specs during Gem::Specification.reset:
      jekyll-watch (~> 1.1)
      rouge (~> 1.7)
WARN: Clearing out unresolved specs.
Please report a bug if this causes problems.
Configuration file: /var/www/html/blog/_config.yml
Configuration file: /var/www/html/blog/_config.yml
            Source: /var/www/html/blog
       Destination: /var/www/html/blog/_site
 Incremental build: disabled. Enable with --incremental
      Generating... 
                    done in 0.458 seconds.
 Auto-regeneration: enabled for '/var/www/html/blog'
Configuration file: /var/www/html/blog/_config.yml
    Server address: http://127.0.0.1:4000/blog/
  Server running... press ctrl-c to stop.

Issue The issue that I am having is that when I navigate to localhost/blog, instead of seeing a 'homepage' or index, all I'm seeing is the directory structure as noted above. It's as if the index file isn't rendering or such. However, if I click into _site/, I get something that looks a bit like a classic landing page for the sample post.

Question What am I missing? Did I mis-configure something? Is this expected behavior?

Thanks!

Upvotes: 1

Views: 871

Answers (1)

marcanuy
marcanuy

Reputation: 23942

The problem is that you are looking at the generated files without a web server.

You can run a webserver at the folder that contains _config.yml, just to see that everything goes fine, then you need a "real" web server to serve your pages: $ jekyll serve

After running jekyll serve you will be able to access your website at: http://localhost:4000

Upvotes: 0

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