gabriele6/docker-jekyll-nginx

building Jekyll websites in docker

docker-jekyll-nginx

building Jekyll websites in docker

Setup

• Install Docker (https://docs.docker.com/engine/installation/)
• Download and extract the archive
  wget "https://github.com/gabriele6/docker-jekyll-nginx/archive/master.zip"
unzip master.zip
cp -r docker-jekyll-nginx-master/* ./
rm -r docker-jekyll-nginx-master/ master.zip README.md
• Edit file permissions
  chmod 777 build_and_serve.sh
chmod 777 get_and_serve.sh
chmod 777 restart_containers.sh
• Fork a Jekyll theme and edit the get_and_serve.sh file with the location of the theme on your repositories (example theme: https://github.com/arkadianriver/spectral)
• run ./get_and_serve.sh

Alternatively, after installing Docker you can download the script setup.sh to your home directory, edit file permissions with chmod 777 setup.sh, and run it with ./setup.sh.
At this point you have a working theme installed. You might want to fork a theme, edit the get_and_serve.sh script with the forked theme location, and run ./get_and_serve.sh to build everything and serve the site.
If you don't need to download everything again, just run build_and_serve.sh instead.

Remember setup.sh should be executed only once, since it overrides everything and gets you to the default settings.

Running the existing containers automatically at startup

• view the cron list with crontab -e (as root)
• add the line @reboot /root/restart_containers.sh somewhere

restart_containers.sh runs the docker containers listed in the containers.txt file in the main directory.
Those containers are created in the build_and_serve.sh script, therefore you shouldn't edit the containers.txt file.

If you want to place your files away from the /root/ directory, edit the cron line accordingly (you must update the build_and_serve.sh and get_and_serve.sh files too with the new path instead of /root/)