Quickstart

Jekyll is a static site generator. It takes text written in your favorite markup language and uses layouts to create a static website. You can tweak the site’s look and feel, URLs, the data displayed on the page, and more.

Prerequisites

Jekyll requires the following:

Ruby version 2.5.0 or higher
RubyGems
GCC and Make

See Requirements for guides and details.

Instructions

Install all prerequisites .
Install the jekyll and bundler gems .
```
 gem install jekyll bundler
```
Create a new Jekyll site at ./myblog .
```
 jekyll new myblog
```
Change into your new directory.
```
 cd myblog
```
Build the site and make it available on a local server.
```
 bundle exec jekyll serve
```
Browse to http://localhost:4000

If you are using Ruby version 3.0.0 or higher, step 5 may fail . You may fix it by adding webrick to your dependencies: bundle add webrick

Pass the --livereload option to serve to automatically refresh the page with each change you make to the source files: bundle exec jekyll serve --livereload

If you encounter any errors during this process, check that you have installed all the prerequisites in Requirements . If you still have issues, see Troubleshooting .

Installation varies based on your operating system. See our guides for OS-specific instructions.