Jekyll

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Follow the steps below to create a custom webpage on https://stat.cmu.edu under your own personal (/~yourusername) path using Jekyll. If you do not have a "stat.cmu.edu/~yourusername" site already, you must contact "remarks.stat.cmu.edu" for initial setup.

1 - Sign into the server.

ssh username@stat.cmu.edu

2 - Initialize a new Jekyll projet folder. Do not use your "public_html" folder for this.

jekyll new ~/jekyllsetupfolder

3 - Edit the URL parameters in the config file.

nano ~/jekyllsetupfolder/_config.yml

Edit the "baseurl" and "url" values in the yml file

baseurl: "/~yourusername" # the subpath of your site, e.g. /blog
url: "https://stat.cmu.edu" # the base hostname & protocol for your site, e.g. http://example.com

4 - Generate the final project files in your "/public_html" folder.

jekyll build --source ~/jekyllsetupfolder --destination ~/public_html

5 - Access your site in a web browser.

https://stat.cmu.edu/~yourusername


If you need to make changes to your site after taking it live, edit the files in your "jekyllsetupfolder". Once you've made your changes, run the command below.

jekyll build --source ~/jekyllsetupfolder --destination ~/public_html