I recently was able to get Jekyll serve --watch to work. Now I see that that there are duplicates of most of my blog posts. I've tried to moving posts around, deleting them from the _site folder, checking for duplicates in the website. But nothing has been working. Is this typical of Jekyll serve? If I build, will the duplicates also be published?
No, this is not a tipical behaviour, posts should appear once.
Also watch is turned on by default when serving the site locally with jekyll serve.
Remove the _site folder and serve the website again.
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I'm a total newbie when it comes to Jekyll, and have encountered a big problem. I'm probably doing something wrong or missing something, but what?
I find it very confusing trying to install the "Agency Jekyll Theme" which is the first theme I'm trying out. Mostly because there are several ways to do it, the commands don't add up and there is a lot of "you can do this" embedded into what you actually have to do to install it.
These are the guides I've been following:
https://jekyllrb.com/docs/step-by-step/01-setup/
https://www.rubydoc.info/gems/jekyll-agency/1.2.0
http://jekyllthemes.org/themes/agency/
Basically, I've tried all the 3 possible ways to install it without success.
I'm running on Windows.
My problem:
jekyll serve (ran in my site folder) creates a _site folder and content in the subfolders css, img and js. Nothing else is created, not index.html, and other files needed directly under _site folder.
In my site root folder, there are only _config.yml and Gemfile, after completing the initial steps.
There seems to be a problem with actually downloading the full theme into my root folder. When I manually download the agency-jekyll-theme-starter-master.zip and extract the entire content in my root site folder, there is index.html, _data folder, etc. However, in the assets folder, there is only an img folder.
As a result, when I open http://localhost:4000/agency-jekyll-theme-starter/ in a browser there is only a directory listing with the folder "assets".
Where do the css folder and its content come from that generates under _site?
My workaround:
I run jekyll build so that the site in its entirety is placed under _site folder. However, with this process, the whole point of using Jekyll is lost because I have to edit the generated HTML files, CSS files, etc. To change simple stuff like renaming the page/navigation "Services" to another word I have to go through the HTML file and replace all occurrences
My successful attempt to reproduce your issue:
I tried this method from http://jekyllthemes.org/themes/agency/
Using the Starter Template
This is the fastest and easiest way to get up and running on GitHub Pages. Simply generate your own repository by clicking here, then replace the sample content with your own and configure for your needs.
The starter template (that is also linked on the page above) allowed me to start a code space and commit the repo content into my new branch.
I could reproduce your problem, there were no styles when running jekyll serve.
The reason for the issue:
The problem is the baseurl in the _config.yml file. It points to a relative path that does not exist in your repository. Your baseurl / path is "", because you run your server from the root folder, most probably both locally and later remotely using GitHub pages.
The solution for the issue:
In the _config.yml file in your repo, change this one line
from
baseurl: "/agency-jekyll-theme-starter" # the subpath of your site, e.g. /blog
to
baseurl: "" # the subpath of your site, e.g. /blog
Check out https://github.com/cadamini/jekyll-agency-test if you like.
I hope this was understandable and helpful and that you can solve your issue with these instructions. Don't hesitate to comment for further clarification.
I am working with Jekyll on a new project. I created a new project by running jekyll new [folder name] then ran bundle exec jekyll serve. However every time I run that command files from a former jekyll project get put in the folder! I am not using this project anymore (more of me learning jekyll on my own) so I even deleted the folders. Still, this old site files get loaded.
I even tried serving the site over a different port number (4001, not 4000), and uninstalling and reinstalling the jekyll gem. What is going wrong? Thanks!
This is resolved.
I ended up creating a blank default index file in the root. When I did this and ran jekyll serve, the index file of the former site ceased to be generated. Still generated another page from the site, but I am assuming I can prevent that the same way.
I run a small blog based on Jekyll in GitHub Pages. Trying to fix an error at rebuilding it, I deleted the _site folder, which made all posts disappear from it.
It's rebuilding the site now, great, but it shows no posts at all — even that all of them are in _posts folder.
What am I missing here?
For reference: https://github.com/rghedin/rghedin.github.io
Thanks!
_site folder contains the generated files, it is not necessary to have them in the repo as github pages will build it.
If you deleted it and now there are no posts showing at the homepage, then there should be another error, try to run a local instance to debug it or wait for github pages to rebuild it and show the latest version, it could take some minutes to show the latest changes online.
i have a mixed situation where i have my custom website generated in a _dev folder, and i want jekyll generated blog files to go in that same folder. of course i don't want jekyll to wipe up any of the files that are already there, but just to wipe up and rebuild the jekyll related files.
i don't want to list all the things i want to keep like this:
keep_files: [js,css,images,*.html]
plus the *.html, while building, throws an error. is there a way to tell jekyll to just wipe up and rebuild the jekyll related files only?
i can't find many options on this on the official documentation.
i'm on jekyll 3.4.3
By default Jekyll deletes the output folder before building the site. Unless you change that behaviour in source code you can build your website in a temporal folder and copy the contents replacing the old files in your website folder.
jekyll build --destination /tmp/jk
cp -r /tmp/jk/* _dev/
This way it will only replace the Jekyll related files.
I recently pulled a copy of my github pages site to a new Windows machine and when I run jekyll all the files get created in _site but any that use a layout are empty.
I have tried jekyll build --layouts C:\Path\to\site\_layouts which still resulted in empty files.
Its compiling SASS no problem and copying the files with no front matter. Its generating empty files for all the posts and drafts so its seeing _posts and _drafts which makes me think it should be able to see _layouts but its not...
anyone come across this issue?