Octopress Blog From a Subdirectory

Nov 27, 2014

I’m using Jekyll and Octopress 3.0 to manage my entire site here, but I want the ‘blog’ page to be located at [chrisanthropic.com/blog] so here’s what I did.

  1. Rename the default index.html to ‘blog.html’ (keeping it in root)
  2. Edit _config.yml ‘permalink’ to permalink: /blog/:year/:title
    • feel free to edit the permalink however you want, so long as it starts with /blog
  3. Create a new index.html in root
  4. add /blog/ link to navigation by adding the proper yaml front matter to ‘blog.html’
  ---
  layout: page
  title: Blog
  permalink: /blog/
  ---