Download and install Ruby
Open window cmd and check installation correctly.
$ ruby -v
ruby 2.2.4p230 (2015-12-16 revision 53155) [i386-mingw32]
Open window cmd and input following command：
$ gem install jekyll
Create a new blog project as follow：
$ cd blogfolder
$ jekyll new testblog
Go to project folder and start jekyll server：
$ cd testblog
$ jekyll server
Configuration file: D:/Blog/website/testblog/_config.yml
Source: D:/Blog/website/testblog
Destination: D:/Blog/website/testblog/_site
Incremental build: disabled. Enable with --incremental
Generating...
Jekyll Feed: Generating feed for posts
done in 0.579 seconds.
Auto-regeneration: enabled for 'D:/Blog/website/testblog'
Server address: http://127.0.0.1:4000/
Server running... press ctrl-c to stop.
Open browser and input:
http://localhost:4000/
Download template and unzip template file. Open window cmd and go into project folder:
$ cd templatefolder
Using Gemfile and Gemfile.lock in section 2 to replace the corresponding files in the templatefolder.
Notice that you should remain the plugins config from original Gemfile, such as:
group :jekyll_plugins do
gem "jekyll-feed", "~> 0.12"
gem "jekyll-paginate"
gem "jekyll-sitemap"
end
Running follow command to run jekyll server：
$ jekyll server
If there are errors like this:
D:/Ruby27-x64/lib/ruby/2.7.0/bundler/spec_set.rb:86:in `block in materialize': Could not find public_suffix-4.0.5 in any of the sources (Bundler::GemNotFound)
Input following command to solve the problem.
$ gem install public_suffix --version 4.0.5
Finally, open http://localhost:4000/ to see the template website.