README.md
Using jekyll with pages
This exersise is about using GitHub Pages to render a jekyll boilerplate site. It had been anticpated that https://help.github.com/articles/using-jekyll-with-pages would explain how to do this.
Perhaps, the reader of GitHubHelp is intended to extrapolate the how, but for a greenhorn like me the solution is not at all obvious. It may be possible to extrapolate the solution in part, e.g. creating a gh-pages fork, but you also need to dig deeper to find the necessary remaining information.
You can find this missing information on Project Pages under Project Page URL Structure, See: http://jekyllrb.com/docs/github-pages/.
- In a text editor open, and edit the boilerplate file named: _congig.yml so that e.g. it reads as shown below:
baseurl: "/project-name"
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project-namewill be the same as your GitHub repository name. -
to view the boilerplate site locally, after making this change use:
http://127.0.0.1:4000/project-name/