Setup Jekyll to Build your Personal Website

Install Jekyll

## install homebrew
/usr/bin/ruby -e "$(curl -fsSL https://raw.githubusercontent.com/Homebrew/install/master/install)"

## install a separate version of Ruby
brew install ruby

## add new ruby to your ENV PATH
echo 'export PATH="/usr/local/opt/ruby/bin:$PATH"' >> ~/.bash_profile
source ~/.bash_profile
## For compilers to find ruby you may need to set:
export LDFLAGS="-L/usr/local/opt/ruby/lib"
export CPPFLAGS="-I/usr/local/opt/ruby/include"

## install jekyll
gem install bundler jekyll
bundle update --bundler

Build and Host your Website

## build your website
jekyll new my-website
cd my-website

## host your website
bundle exec jekyll serve

Host your Website on AWS S3

with s3_website, you can easily get your jekyll website deployed on AWS S3:

• Run gem install s3_website to install s3_website

• Create IAM credentials that have sufficient permissions to S3.

• Go to your website directory.

• Run s3_website cfg create. This generates a configuration file called s3_website.yml.

• Put your AWS credentials and the S3 bucket name into the file

• Run s3_website cfg apply. This will configure your bucket to function as an S3 website. If the bucket does not exist, the command will create it for you.

• Run s3_website push to push your website to S3. Congratulations! You are live.

At any later time when you would like to synchronise your local website with the S3 website, simply run s3_website push again. (It will calculate the difference, update the changed files, upload the new files and delete the obsolete files.)