Note: I have stopped maintaince on this project. I currenlty use Docker to develop jekyll projects locally. You can find more about running jekyll with Docker at http://www.jamessturtevant.com/posts/Running-Jekyll-in-Windows-using-Docker/
Environment for developing jekyll projects locally. Blog post at http://www.jamessturtevant.com/posts/running-jekyll-in-windows/
- Make sure Vagrant and your favorite virtual machine are installed.
- Clone this repository
- Open command prompt to location of the Vagrantfile and run
vagrant up
- Jekyll and all it's dependencies are installed!
- Copy the projects folder to the folder that contains the vagrantfile.
- Open a command prompt to location of the Vagrantfile and run
vagrant ssh
- Once on the VM prompt
cd /vagrant/<YourProjectFolder>
- Start the jekyll server
jekyll serve --force_polling
(force polling is required with vagrant because of share)
- Open a command prompt to location of the Vagrantfile and run
vagrant ssh
- Once on the VM prompt
cd /vagrant
- Create new site with
jekyll new <sitename>
- Start the jekyll server
jekyll serve --force_polling
(force polling is required with vagrant because of share)