Hosting jekyll blog site on aws and post by git push.

Hello There, Hope you are goind great. Today I am gona discuss how to host a jekyll’s blog website on aws and write an new blog post by simply using the git protocol. Here we go:

Create a new machine on aws

You have to create a new machine on aws or may be use existing one. For more detail on creating new machine on aws click here.

# make sure you have ssh access on the machine

Setup for blog site:

• Install rvm and ruby and bundler.
• Install jekyll by running gem install jekyll.
• Install git by running sudo apt-get install git.
• Install dependencies sudo apt-get install git nodejs ruby ruby1.9.1-dev npm apache2.
• Change permissions sudo chown -R USER_NAME:USER_NAME /var/www/html.
• Create a bare repository mkdir blog.git && cd blog.git && git init --bare
• Create a post receive hook. For this run commands. cp hooks/post-receive.sample hooks/post-receive
• Write following lines of code inside hooks/post-receive

#!/bin/bash -l
GIT_REPO=$HOME/blog.git
TMP_GIT_CLONE=$HOME/tmp/blog
PUBLIC_WWW=/var/www/html

git clone $GIT_REPO $TMP_GIT_CLONE
cd $TMP_GIT_CLONE
bundle install
cd ..
jekyll build --source $TMP_GIT_CLONE --destination $PUBLIC_WWW
rm -Rf $TMP_GIT_CLONE
exit

• Change permission for execution chmod +x post-receive.

Setup on local machine to write posts:

• Go inside your jekyll blog site’s repository then run the following commands:
• git init
• git remote add origin USER_NAME_OF_AWS_MACHINE@IP_OF_AWS_MACHINE:/home/USER_NAME/blog.git.
• Add your files by running git add .. You can also use git ignore to manage the unwanted files to be pushed to the server.
• Commit you changes git commit -m 'YOUR COMMIT MESSAGE'.
• Pushing to the server git push origin master.

Writing new blogs

• For writing new blogs you just make a new file inside the posts folder of your blog site and perform git commit and push to pushing your changes to the server.
• Now go to open http://IP_OF_AWS_MACHINE and you can see your site is live on aws.

Enjoy !!!