How to setup this website on your local machine?

Once you complete setting up local instance of this website, you will be able to host this website, access it and modify it on your local machine.

Prerequistes to setup locally:

  • Create Github Account here.
  • Install Github Desktop using this.
  • Install Jekyll for your Operating System here.

Follow the steps to setup website locally:

Step 1: Fork this repository on your local machine.

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Step 2: After forking the repository to your github account, clone it to your machine using Github Desktop.

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Step 3: After cloning it to your local machine, navigate to the folder where you cloned the repository.

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Step 4: Enter the docs folder and open a terminal window. For windows open powershell terminal by holding shift key and right clicking in the explorer.

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Step 5: Once the terminal opens enter the following command, bundle update

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Step 6: Next run the following command, bundle exec jekyll serve –watch

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Step 7: Open the server address mentioned in the console.

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Step 8: You have successfully setup local instance of website

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