Unable to generate anything with Jekyll - jekyll

When I run Jekyll it does not generate anything. The output I see:
Configuration from /home/mbsheikh/techtraits/techtraits-blog/_config.yml
Auto-regenerating enabled: /home/mbsheikh/techtraits/techtraits-blog -> /home/mbsheikh/techtraits/techtraits-blog/_site
[2012-06-15 23:23:03] regeneration: 118 files changed
The _site directory is empty. Is there a way to debug Jekyll? I changed a couple of files and still don't see anything in _site.

Set auto=false in the_config.yml, then run jekyll again, then you will see the ruby error trace info.

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Jekyll not finding blog posts

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I am new to Jekyll and got it installed with Grunt and SASS. My issues is that while my test site will show my new posts, When I click on the post link I get an error "Cannot GET /blog/example-post-name".
Grunt doesn't show any errors when running Grunt Serve. However if I run Jekyll serve I get the following errors:
Build Warning: Layout 'article' requested in app/_posts/2015-01-31-optimized-jekyll-site-with-grunt.markdown does not exist.
Build Warning: Layout 'article' requested in app/_posts/2017-03-20-welcome-to-jekyll.markdown does not exist.
Liquid Exception: Could not locate the included file 'blog.html' in any of ["/Users/rich/jekyll-site/_includes"]. Ensure it exists in one of those directories and, if it is a symlink, does not point outside your site source. in app/index.html
jekyll 3.4.2 | Error: Could not locate the included file 'blog.html' in any of ["/Users/rich/jekyll-site/_includes"]. Ensure it exists in one of those directories and, if it is a symlink, does not point outside your site source.
It appears that it cannot find anything in my: _includes, _layouts, ect... folders.
Any help would be appreciated.
Since your template files are in the app/ directory, simply build with app as the source directory.
Add the following to your _config.yml:
source: app
Then run jekyll serve as usual.
Try adding blog.html file in _includes folder or use layout: default in your posts 2015-01-31-optimized-jekyll-site-with-grunt.markdown etc.

Missing fonts folder on jekyll deploying to netlify

When deploying jekyll project to netlify I am missing my fonts folder.
It works perfectly find when in development mode but when I tell it to run in production it seems to skip over adding my fonts folder to the _site/assets directory.
I believe it has to be something in the config but I am fairly new to jekyll and YAML. And in the code its seems to be saying to add all the assets underneath it to the build process.
Below is my _config.yml file.
copy:
# Paths to static assets that aren't (S)CSS or JavaScript
# because these are completely handled by the sass and javascript tasks
assets:
# all files below the assets dir
- "assets/**/*"
# exclusions:
- "!assets/{js,scss,css}/**/*" # js, scss and css files
- "!assets/css{,/**}" # css dir
- "!assets/js{,/**}" # js dir
- "!assets/scss{,/**}" # scss dir
- "!assets/vendor{,/**}" # vendor di
dist: "_site/assets/"
notification: "Running Copy"
Note: I work for Netlify
While I'm not sure of the fail mode here, I can tell you a couple things that would help you debug:
the easiest way to debug a build is described in this article: https://www.netlify.com/blog/2016/10/18/how-our-build-bots-build-sites/ . This lets you duplicate our build environment in a way that you can access during/after the build so you can see what is happening or has happened in more depth than our build logs
If you write into support we can set a verbose flag on your builds that does the equivalent of 'set -x' on the building shell script to show you what's being run in production, though filtering this output is quite a task for a human, it may be more useful than nothing!

gh-pages with static html can't access file when it exists

The index.html home page displays fine, however any any link will throw a 404.
The static website has folder with html in it, index link to these html with the correct path, but displays a 404.
When clicking on this link, I got a 404.
however the file is present as you can see here .
I am really banging my head on a simple html pb, which is frustrating.
I ran into this problem myself and finally discovered a simpler solution. The problem is that Jekyll ignores all files that start with _. The simple solution is to add a .nojekyll file to your docs dir.
My docs script looks like this:
"rimraf ./docs && typedoc src/ --out docs --mode modules --module commonjs --target es6 --excludePrivate && touch ./docs/.nojekyll && gh-pages -d docs -t"
touch is an npm module that creates the file and the -t flag on gh-pages is necessary to have that dot file uploaded.
Alright I though I might just answer my own question here.
Github Page doesn't allow several static HTML files.
This is not very clear to be honest on their docs, but the solution is quite simple :
Assuming your local static docs works correctly, just follow these steps :
install jekyll
gem install jekyll bundler
add a file _config.yml
in your docs or on the root of your gh-pages branch with this content:
auto: true
execute jekyll serve
And test if this works ok on the url outputed in your console
add _site in your .gitignore
push and bingo!
If you are like me using typedoc to compile typescript into nice documentation, you will run into trouble.
Because Jekyll automatically exclude from the build any files starting with _, and typedoc generates ONLY that, I wrote a simple yeoman generator that does all the replacement for you.

Adding Jekyll to an existing website

I have a simple website and tried to add a Jekyll blog in it in a new folder blog thus I have run jekyll new blog in the folder /path. However when I'm running the command jekyll build in /path I have these errors:
$ jekyll build
Configuration file: none
Source: /path
Destination: /path/_site
Generating...
Build Warning: Layout 'post' requested in blog/_posts/2015-06-14-welcome-to-jekyll.markdown does not exist.
Build Warning: Layout 'default' requested in blog/index.html does not exist.
Conversion error: Jekyll::Converters::Scss encountered an error converting 'blog/css/main.scss'.
Conversion error: File to import not found or unreadable: /blog/_sass/base.scss. Load paths: on line 47
I solved the first problem (Configuration file: none) by moving _config.ymlin the parent folder, however I still have problems when requesting layout using
---
layout: default
---
The imports in main.scssare also not working (last error).
If I'm doing the same command jekyll build in /path/blogafter moving again _config.yml, I have no errors. Does someone know how to be able to do a jekyll buildin the parent folder with the configuration I have? Do I have to entirely change the architecture of my website to include a Jekyll blog in it?
You config.yml is in /path with
source: /_jekyll
destination: /blog
baseurl: /blog
Your jekyll sources are in /path/_jekyll.
And you generated files will be in /path/blog.
Ready to deploy !

jekyll 3.0.0-beta error Is a directory # rb_sysopen

With jekyll-2.5.3 I'm able to run "jekyll serve --watch" to generate my site and preview it. However, since upgrading to jekyll-3.0.0.pre.beta1 I now see the following error
jekyll serve --watch
Configuration file: /wrk/git/blog/_config.yml
Deprecation: Auto-regeneration can no longer be set from your configuration file(s). Use the --[no-]watch/-w command-line option instead.
Deprecation: The 'pygments' configuration option has been renamed to 'highlighter'. Please update your config file accordingly. The allowed values are 'rouge', 'pygments' or null.
Source: /wrk/git/blog
Destination: /wrk/git/blog/_site
Incremental build: enabled
Generating...
Build Warning: Layout 'nil' requested in atom.xml does not exist.
Build Warning: Layout 'nil' requested in rss.xml does not exist.
jekyll 3.0.0-beta1 | Error: Is a directory # rb_sysopen - /wrk/git/blog/_site/tech/2013/04/24/blog
I've checked and I have read/write/execute permissions, so I don't think it's a permission error. If it helps, here's my source and layout (https://github.com/minhongrails/blog), which has directories like _includes, _layouts, _posts, index.html, etc in the root directory.
Does anyone have any ideas how to resolve this? Thanks!
Build Warning: Layout 'nil' requested in atom.xml does not exist.
Build Warning: Layout 'nil' requested in rss.xml does not exist.
I think the layout should be null, not nill.
For some reason I needed to move my source files into a "source" subdirectory as specified in the _config.yml. Here's some of the _config.yml that I had to modify
source: src
# needed to also update this b/c it was generating inside the "source" dir
destination: _site
In Jekyll 2 I didn't need to do this but I guess it's now necessary in Jekyll 3? Here's a Github issue with more details: https://github.com/jekyll/jekyll/issues/3248