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Jennifer Crawshaw
Jennifer Crawshaw
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Posted by Jennifer Crawshaw
Jennifer Crawshaw
17,878 Points

jekyll serve error

I am running Jekyll on a Virtual Machine (Ubuntu), on my Windows laptop. When I run jekyll serve it does not load the local host. Any ideas of what I can do?

2 Answers

arshin
arshin
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arshin
arshin
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Do you have Python installed? It seems that may be a necessity.

ryandahlke
ryandahlke
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ryandahlke
ryandahlke
5,249 Points

Are you trying to view what's being served from a browser on the Windows side, your VM acting as a development server, or are you trying to view what's being served within the Ubuntu virtual machine itself, like Firefox in the VM?