My journey to Jekyll!

Vorbereitungen

elementary-os (should be the same for ubuntu)

• after experiments with the apt-ruby-version i decided to restart with the snap-version

  sudo snap install ruby --classic
  

  • add to .bashrc
  • to avoid problems with other gems, I use my own gem-folder-structure aka add to .bashrc

    # Install Ruby Gems to ~/gems
    export GEM_HOME="$HOME/gems"
    export PATH="$HOME/gems/bin:$PATH"
    # ensure snap-ruby is found and all my gems
    eval `ruby.env`
    

• close konsole and open a fresh one
• now we’re ready to install additional necessary parts

  sudo apt install build-essential zlib1g-dev
  gem install jekyll bundler
  

  On wordpress install plugin Jekyll-Exporter and export all posts and content

Doing

• generate new repo from chirpy
• configure chirpy-statics
• extract the export to tmp folder
• copy wp_content, _posts to your new blog-folder
• re-arrange _tabs and add i.e. datenschutzerklaerung etc
• reconfigure _config.yml
• cleanup converted posts - remove permalinks !
• disable build workflow in github!

Finally

# as I'd like to check everything locally, run jekyll as
jekyll serve
git add -A
git commit -a
git push

as we’re running on a dedicated server

rsync -azP _sites/ user@remote-host:/srv/www/destinationdir
ssh user@remote-host 'chown -R www-data:www-data /srv/www/destinationdir/*'

finally, up and running

Addendum

Cloning on a different machine, now with ssh-key auth

• do the prereqs …
• git clone ...
• cd blog
• bundle
• git submodule init
• git submodule update
• now you can build and serve your blog locally jekyll s