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Ogechi Ike
Ogechi Ike
6,539 Points
Posted by Ogechi Ike
Ogechi Ike
6,539 Points

Terminal Jekyll Serve Error

When I try to view my jekyll blog in the browser, Terminal keeps saying:

jekyll 2.5.3 | Error: (/Users/oike/travel_blog/_config.yml): mapping values are not allowed in this context at line 22 column 13

I don't know if I would have to restart the course to fix it, or what. Suggestions would be nice. Thank you for your time.

Jonathan Chua
Jonathan Chua
4,136 Points
Jonathan Chua
Jonathan Chua
4,136 Points

I encountered the same problem after pasting in the code to set default values in my _config.yml file. Here is the code at line 22.

      layout: "post"

2 Answers

Kenneth Crocken
Kenneth Crocken
10,672 Points
Kenneth Crocken
Kenneth Crocken
10,672 Points

Hi Ogechi -

I would suspect some typo in your _config.yml, possibly where you were setting some default values. Can you post the code from your config file?

Kenneth Crocken
Kenneth Crocken
10,672 Points
Kenneth Crocken
Kenneth Crocken
10,672 Points

Its hard to say what the problem maybe, Jekyll doesn't have the most robust error messages. But as a trouble shooting guide, I would check:

*The indentation. The spacing is used to denote structure. Use spaces for indentations, not tab characters. *Hyphens. Do you have them? The hyphen is used to mark a new list. *Don't paste. Delete what you have and type it out again - don't paste it.