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## Installing Jekyll
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The easiest way to run Jekyll is by using the [RubyInstaller][] for Windows.
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If you are using Windows 10 Anniversary Update or later, the easiest way to run Jekyll is by [installing][WSL-Guide] the new Bash on Ubuntu on Windows.
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### Installation via RubyInstaller
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[RubyInstaller][] is a self-contained Windows-based installer that includes the Ruby language, an execution environment, important documentation, and more.
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We only cover RubyInstaller-2.4 and newer here, older versions need to [install the Devkit][Devkit-install] manually.
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1. Download and Install a **Ruby+Devkit** version from [RubyInstaller Downloads][RubyInstaller-downloads].
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Use default options for installation.
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2. Open a new command prompt window from the start menu, so that changes to the `PATH` environment variable becomes effective.
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Install Jekyll and Bundler via: `gem install jekyll bundler`
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3. Check if Jekyll installed properly: `jekyll -v`
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That's it, you're ready to install our [default minimal blog theme](https://github.com/jekyll/minima) with `jekyll new jekyll-website`.
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[RubyInstaller]: https://rubyinstaller.org/
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[RubyInstaller-downloads]: https://rubyinstaller.org/downloads/
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[Devkit-install]: https://github.com/oneclick/rubyinstaller/wiki/Development-Kit
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### Installation via Bash on Windows 10
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### Encoding
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*Note:* You must have [Bash on Ubuntu on Windows][BASH-WSL] enabled.
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If you use UTF-8 encoding, make sure that no `BOM` header characters exist in your files or very, very bad things will happen to
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Jekyll. This is especially relevant when you're running Jekyll on Windows.
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Additionally, you might need to change the code page of the console window to UTF-8 in case you get a "Liquid Exception: Incompatible character encoding" error during the site generation process. It can be done with the following command:
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```sh
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chcp 65001
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```
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### Time-Zone Management
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Since Windows doesn't have a native source of zoneinfo data, the Ruby Interpreter would not understand IANA Timezones and hence using them had the `TZ` environment variable default to UTC/GMT 00:00.
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Though Windows users could alternatively define their blog's timezone by setting the key to use POSIX format of defining timezones, it wasn't as user-friendly when it came to having the clock altered to changing DST-rules.
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Jekyll now uses a rubygem to internally configure Timezone based on established [IANA Timezone Database][IANA-database].
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While 'new' blogs created with Jekyll v3.4 and greater, will have the following added to their 'Gemfile' by default, existing sites *will* have to update their 'Gemfile' (and installed) to enable development on Windows:
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```ruby
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# Windows does not include zoneinfo files, so bundle the tzinfo-data gem
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gem 'tzinfo-data', platforms: [:mingw, :mswin, :x64_mingw, :jruby]
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```
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[IANA-database]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_tz_database_time_zones
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### Auto Regeneration
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Jekyll uses the `listen` gem to watch for changes when the `--watch` switch is specified during a build or serve. While `listen` has built-in support for UNIX systems, it may require an extra gem for compatibility with Windows.
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Add the following to the Gemfile for your site if you have issues with auto-regeneration on Windows alone:
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```ruby
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gem 'wdm', '~> 0.1.1' if Gem.win_platform?
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```
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You have to use a [Ruby+Devkit](https://rubyinstaller.org/downloads/) version of the RubyInstaller.
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## Installation via Bash on Windows 10
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If you are using Windows 10 version 1607 or later, another option to run Jekyll is by [installing][WSL-Guide] the Windows Subsystem for Linux.
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*Note:* You must have [Windows Subsystem for Linux][BASH-WSL] enabled.
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First let's make sure all our packages / repositories are up to date. Open a new Command Prompt instance, and type the following:
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@ -77,148 +136,3 @@ You can make sure time management is working properly by inspecting your `_posts
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[WSL-Guide]: https://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/commandline/wsl/install_guide
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[BASH-WSL]: https://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/commandline/wsl/about
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### Installation via RubyInstaller
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[RubyInstaller][] is a self-contained Windows-based installer that includes the Ruby language, an execution environment, important documentation, and more.
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1. Download and Install a package manager version from [RubyInstaller Downloads][RubyInstaller-downloads].
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2. Install Jekyll and Bundler via a command prompt window: `gem install jekyll bundler`
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3. Check if Jekyll installed properly: `jekyll -v`
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[RubyInstaller]: https://rubyinstaller.org/
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[RubyInstaller-downloads]: https://rubyinstaller.org/downloads/
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### Installation via Chocolatey
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A quick way to install Jekyll using Chocolatey is to follow the [installation instructions by David Burela](https://davidburela.wordpress.com/2015/11/28/easily-install-jekyll-on-windows-with-3-command-prompt-entries-and-chocolatey/):
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1. Install a package manager for Windows called [Chocolatey][]
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2. Install Ruby via Chocolatey: `choco install ruby -y`
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3. Reopen a command prompt and install Jekyll: `gem install jekyll`
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Updates in the infrastructure of Ruby may cause SSL errors when attempting to use `gem install` with versions of the RubyGems package older than 2.6. (The RubyGems package installed via the Chocolatey tool is version 2.3) If you have installed an older version, you can update the RubyGems package using the directions [here][ssl-certificate-update].
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[ssl-certificate-update]: http://guides.rubygems.org/ssl-certificate-update/#installing-using-update-packages
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### Installing *github-pages* via Chocolatey
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This section is part of an article written by [Jens Willmer][jwillmerPost]. To follow the instructions you need to have [Chocolatey][] installed on your system. If you already have a version of Ruby installed you need to uninstall it before you can continue.
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#### Install Ruby and Ruby development kit
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Open a command prompt and execute the following commands:
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* `choco install ruby -version 2.2.4`
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* `choco install ruby2.devkit` - _needed for compilation of json gem_
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#### Configure Ruby development kit
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The development kit did not set the environment path for Ruby so we need to do it.
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* Open command prompt in `C:\tools\DevKit2`
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* Execute `ruby dk.rb init` to create a file called `config.yml`
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* Edit the `config.yml` file and include the path to Ruby `- C:/tools/ruby22`
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* Execute the following command to set the path: `ruby dk.rb install`
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#### Nokogiri gem installation
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This gem is also needed in the github-pages and to get it running on Windows x64 we have to install a few things.
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**Note:** In the current [pre release][nokogiriFails] it works out of the box with Windows x64 but this version is not referenced in the github-pages.
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```sh
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choco install libxml2 -Source "https://www.nuget.org/api/v2/"
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choco install libxslt -Source "https://www.nuget.org/api/v2/"
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choco install libiconv -Source "https://www.nuget.org/api/v2/
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gem install nokogiri --^
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--with-xml2-include=C:\Chocolatey\lib\libxml2.2.7.8.7\build\native\include^
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--with-xml2-lib=C:\Chocolatey\lib\libxml2.redist.2.7.8.7\build\native\bin\v110\x64\Release\dynamic\cdecl^
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--with-iconv-include=C:\Chocolatey\lib\libiconv.1.14.0.11\build\native\include^
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--with-iconv-lib=C:\Chocolatey\lib\libiconv.redist.1.14.0.11\build\native\bin\v110\x64\Release\dynamic\cdecl^
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--with-xslt-include=C:\Chocolatey\lib\libxslt.1.1.28.0\build\native\include^
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--with-xslt-lib=C:\Chocolatey\lib\libxslt.redist.1.1.28.0\build\native\bin\v110\x64\Release\dynamic
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```
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#### Install github-pages
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* Open command prompt and install [Bundler][]: `gem install bundler`
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* Create a file called `Gemfile` without any extension in your root directory of your blog
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* Copy & paste the two lines into the file:
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```ruby
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source 'https://rubygems.org'
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gem 'github-pages', group: :jekyll_plugins
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```
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* **Note:** We use an unsecure connection because SSL throws exceptions in the version of Ruby
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* Open a command prompt, target your local blog repository root, and install github-pages: `bundle install`
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After this process you should have github-pages installed on your system and you can host your blog again with `jekyll s`.
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There will be a warning on startup that you should include `gem 'wdm', '>= 0.1.0' if Gem.win_platform?` to your `Gemfile` but I could not get `jekyll s` working if I include that line so for the moment I ignore that warning.
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In the future the installation process of the github-pages should be as simple as the setup of the blog. But as long as the new version of the Nokogiri ([v1.6.8][nokogiriReleases]) is not stable and referenced, it is work to get it up and running on Windows.
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[jwillmerPost]: https://jwillmer.de/blog/tutorial/how-to-install-jekyll-and-pages-gem-on-windows-10-x46 "Installation instructions by Jens Willmer"
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[Chocolatey]: https://chocolatey.org/install "Package manager for Windows"
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[nokogiriFails]: https://github.com/sparklemotion/nokogiri/issues/1456#issuecomment-206481794 "Nokogiri fails to install on Ruby 2.3 for Windows"
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[Bundler]: http://bundler.io/ "Ruby Dependencie Manager"
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[nokogiriReleases]: https://github.com/sparklemotion/nokogiri/releases "Nokogiri Releases"
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For a more conventional way of installing Jekyll you can follow this [complete guide to install Jekyll 3 on Windows by Sverrir Sigmundarson][windows-installjekyll3].
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Optionally you can use [Autoinstall Jekyll for Windows][fastjekyll-autoinstall].
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[windows-installjekyll3]: https://labs.sverrirs.com/jekyll/
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[fastjekyll-autoinstall]: https://github.com/KeJunMao/fastjekyll#autoinstall-jekyll-for-windows
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## Encoding
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If you use UTF-8 encoding, make sure that no `BOM` header characters exist in your files or very, very bad things will happen to
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Jekyll. This is especially relevant when you're running Jekyll on Windows.
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Additionally, you might need to change the code page of the console window to UTF-8 in case you get a "Liquid Exception: Incompatible character encoding" error during the site generation process. It can be done with the following command:
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```sh
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chcp 65001
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```
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## Time-Zone Management
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Since Windows doesn't have a native source of zoneinfo data, the Ruby Interpreter would not understand IANA Timezones and hence using them had the `TZ` environment variable default to UTC/GMT 00:00.
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Though Windows users could alternatively define their blog's timezone by setting the key to use POSIX format of defining timezones, it wasn't as user-friendly when it came to having the clock altered to changing DST-rules.
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Jekyll now uses a rubygem to internally configure Timezone based on established [IANA Timezone Database][IANA-database].
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While 'new' blogs created with Jekyll v3.4 and greater, will have the following added to their 'Gemfile' by default, existing sites *will* have to update their 'Gemfile' (and installed) to enable development on Windows:
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```ruby
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# Windows does not include zoneinfo files, so bundle the tzinfo-data gem
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gem 'tzinfo-data', platforms: [:mingw, :mswin, :x64_mingw, :jruby]
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```
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[IANA-database]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_tz_database_time_zones
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## Auto Regeneration
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Jekyll uses the `listen` gem to watch for changes when the `--watch` switch is specified during a build or serve. While `listen` has built-in support for UNIX systems, it may require an extra gem for compatibility with Windows.
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Add the following to the Gemfile for your site if you have issues with auto-regeneration on Windows alone:
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```ruby
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gem 'wdm', '~> 0.1.1' if Gem.win_platform?
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```
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You may first have to download and install the [Ruby DevKit](https://rubyinstaller.org/downloads/) by following [the instructions here](https://github.com/oneclick/rubyinstaller/wiki/Development-Kit).
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