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?
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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 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.
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 followed the instructions for Jekyll Quickstart. Whenever I make changes in my site's directory, the changes get wiped somehow. For example, I modified some of the code in index.html, only to have it return to Jekyll's default. I also created a subdirectory in _site called 'otherservices' with an index.html. That gets wiped as well. Any idea why this may be happening? I can't really use Jekyll if it keeps wiping.
Jekyll is a static website generator, each time it generates a website it place files in the _site folder.
Any changes you make inside the above folder are lost because it is recreated when executing jekyll build or jekyll serve .
Changes should be made to the rest of the files or folders so they will be processed and locate the resulting files inside _site.
You should not write manually into _site directory, that is Jekyll's output.
If you need an otherservices directory in the output, place it one level above, like this:
_site/
otherservices/
index.html
index.md
Jekyll will copy every file and directory into _site, which is not excluded in the configuration and doesn't start with _ prefix. Files that have front-matter will be processed in addition to copying. So in result Jekyll will generate this structure:
_site/
otherservices/ (copies it)
index.html
index.html (generates it from index.md)
otherservices/
index.html
index.md
It is worth reading the documentation on how to create custom pages.
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.