Wednesday, July 27, 2016

How to install Jekyll on Windows? | How to make a Website using Jekyll?


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Jekyll is a popular platform to transform your plain text into static Website or Blog. It's very easy to install on windows. Let's see how  you can install it with just 3 commands.


1. Open the command prompt ( cmd ) with administrative mood access.
2. Run the following command:

@powershell -NoProfile -ExecutionPolicy Bypass -Command "iex ((New-Object System.Net.WebClient).DownloadString('https://chocolatey.org/install.ps1'))" && SET PATH=%PATH%;%ALLUSERSPROFILE%\chocolatey\bin

3. Close the command prompt and open a new cmd with administrative  access.
4. Now Run the following command:

choco install ruby -y

5. Now again  close the command prompt and open a new cmd with administrative  access.
6. Now Run the following command:

gem install jekyll
7. Close the command prompt.

Jekyll has successfully installed. Now let's make a demo website :

1. Open cmd in the directory where you want to keep the blog file. Run the following command one after another finished :

jekyll new testblog

cd testblog

jekyll serve

So our jekyll server has started. Now in browser write the following url and You'll your test website:

http://localhost:4000/

You'll see your test Website like following :

jekyll demo





So that's it for today. Hope you like the short tutorial on Jekyll.




































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