In this tutorial we will learn,how to install Octopress in CentOS 6 and RHEL 6 (Red Hat).
Octopress is a framework for Jekyll.It is designed by Brandon Mathis. Octopress is easy to go setup.Like jekyll,you do not have to write your HTML templates,Javascripts,CSS and set up the configuration.
Requirement: Ruby 1.9.3 or greater
To install Octopress,follow the given below steps
Step 1: Install ruby in the system.If you already have Ruby 1.9.3 or greater then skip this step. I have already written a post on How to easily install ruby 2.1.0 in CentOS and RHEL.For more details read the post.
Below commands are, to install ruby version 2.1.0 by RVM
curl -L get.rvm.io | bash -s stable source /etc/profile.d/rvm.sh rvm requirements rvm install 2.1.0 rvm use 2.1.0 --default ruby -v
Step 2: Install git in the system
yum install git
Step 3: We are cloning the Octopress source code from github in /opt .You can change the path as per your requirement
cd /opt git clone git://github.com/imathis/octopress.git octopress
Below is the reference
[root@localhost opt]# git clone git://github.com/imathis/octopress.git octopress Initialized empty Git repository in /opt/octopress/.git/ remote: Reusing existing pack: 10953, done. remote: Counting objects: 17, done. remote: Compressing objects: 100% (17/17), done. remote: Total 10970 (delta 3), reused 3 (delta 0) Receiving objects: 100% (10970/10970), 2.86 MiB | 431 KiB/s, done. Resolving deltas: 100% (5197/5197), done. [root@localhost opt]#
Step 4: Now install dependencies.
cd /opt/octopress gem install bundler bundle install
Below is the reference
[root@localhost octopress]# gem install bundler Fetching: bundler-1.5.2.gem (100%) Successfully installed bundler-1.5.2 Parsing documentation for bundler-1.5.2 Installing ri documentation for bundler-1.5.2 Done installing documentation for bundler after 3 seconds 1 gem installed [root@localhost octopress]# [root@localhost octopress]# bundle install Fetching gem metadata from https://rubygems.org/....... Fetching additional metadata from https://rubygems.org/.. Installing rake (0.9.2.2) Installing RedCloth (4.2.9) Installing chunky_png (1.2.5) Installing fast-stemmer (1.0.1) Installing classifier (1.3.3) Installing fssm (0.2.9) Installing sass (3.2.9) Installing compass (0.12.2) Installing directory_watcher (1.4.1) Installing haml (3.1.7) Installing kramdown (0.13.8) Installing liquid (2.3.0) Installing syntax (1.0.0) Installing maruku (0.6.1) Installing posix-spawn (0.3.6) Installing yajl-ruby (1.1.0) Installing pygments.rb (0.3.4) Installing jekyll (0.12.0) Installing rack (1.5.2) Installing rack-protection (1.5.0) Installing rb-fsevent (0.9.1) Installing rdiscount (2.0.7.3) Installing rubypants (0.2.0) Installing sass-globbing (1.0.0) Installing tilt (1.3.7) Installing sinatra (1.4.2) Installing stringex (1.4.0) Using bundler (1.5.2) Your bundle is complete! Use `bundle show [gemname]` to see where a bundled gem is installed. [root@localhost octopress]#
Step 5: Install the default theme
rake install
Below is the reference
[root@localhost octopress]# rake install ## Copying classic theme into ./source and ./sass mkdir -p source cp -r .themes/classic/source/. source mkdir -p sass cp -r .themes/classic/sass/. sass mkdir -p source/_posts mkdir -p public [root@localhost octopress]#
Step 6: Now start the Octopress
cd /opt/octopress rake preview OR To keep running in background nohup rake preview &
Note: Check the iptable because it runs on port no. 4000 by-default.Port 4000 must be allowed in IPTABLE.
Step 7: Open the Web browser and type http://ip-address-or-domain-name:4000
eg. http://192.168.56.101:4000 or http://example.com:4000
