Installing Jekyll on Ubuntu 15.10

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Introduction

Jekyll is a site generator which is useful to generate static and simple website for personal, project or organizational purpose. It is like some file based CMS which works without any data base or complexity. It takes your text content and generate a complete and static website which is ready to be server by any web server like Apache, nginx or other.

Features

Simple

No more databases, comment moderation, or pesky updates to install—just your content.

Static

Markdown (or Textile), Liquid, HTML & CSS go in. Static sites come out ready for deployment.

Blog-aware

Permalinks, categories, pages, posts, and custom layouts are all first-class citizens here.

Reference Link: https://jekyllrb.com/

Installation

Jekyll installation is very easy and straight. It will  take only few minutes to install.

Requirement

Ubuntu 15.10 VPS with minimum 512 MB RAM, minimum 4 GB Storage.

Ruby, RubyGems, NodeJS, and Python 2.7 (minimum) is required as software.

Installation Steps

Update Ubuntu Server

# apt-get update

Install Ruby package

# apt-get install ruby-full

Install Jekyll package with gem

# gem install jekyll

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Verify version of jekyll to ensure whether it is installed or not

# jekyll -v

Change to home directory

# cd /home

Create a new website

$ sudo jekyll new unixmen.lan

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The above command will create a new web directory under /home

# cd /home/unixmen.lan &&  ls

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# jekyll server --host 192.168.1.122 &

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Now Open your browser and type

<ip_addr>:4000

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Installation part is done! follow official documentation to learn  advanced : http://jekyllrb.com/docs/posts/

Conclusion

Have a look in  _config.yml file to define your base url. new blog posts will live under  _posts directory. No database is required to build static web pages.