I first heard about Jekyll some time last year while first learning web development. I knew I wanted to try it out, but wasn't sure what I wanted to use it for. So, I ended up saving the tab onto my browser favorites for my future self.
Future self (now present self)-- put a portfolio together and thought it would be a good place to link a blog-- using Jekyll. I figured it the perfect opportunity to get a blog going as I migrate my notes from Sublime AND learn Jekyll in the process.
Now that I got Jekyll running this post covers some things that came up:
Where's Jekyll?
I setup Jekyll following the quickstart doc, but when it was time to fire it up... no localhost page >_<
In my case, I have vagrant running and to get my rails server going I run rails s -b 0.0.0.0. My first thought, I would need to type something similar, but unsuccessful. Spoiler: I was missing a serve command option.
I hit up DuckDuckGo...
Sidebar: if you aren't using that adorable duck instead of Google... why? Check it out, I linked it.
Okay so back to my search-
I came across this StackOverflow post:
To access the jekyll instance in the virtual box server, run Jekyll with the server IP.
Usage:
jekyll serve [options]
Options:
-H, --host [HOST] Host to bind to
Supposing the virtual server IP is 192.168.1.100 then run the following command in the server to make the jekyll instance accesible from outside:
jekyll serve -H 192.168.1.100
Then it will be accessible at http://192.168.1.100:4000
I was close with jekyll serve --host 0.0.0.0, but I hadn't considered my vagrant environment setup which forwards port 3000 to 3030. That's what I was missing. I needed to specify the port as well because not doing so was giving me Jekyll's default http://0.0.0.0:4000/ instead of http://0.0.0.0:3000/ which would then allow http://localhost:3030 to show up (which is what I wanted).
TL;DR
Running vagrant with port forwarding-- I needed jekyll serve --host 0.0.0.0 --port 3000 in order for my Jekyll site to show up on http://localhost:3030
Note: You can also put port: 3000 in the config file instead of in the terminal and it will load that way as well.
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