_sites folder does not have all resources

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Hi there,

I am new to Jekyll and am trying to figure out how people deploy the _site folder. I am able to run jekyll serve and see the site with the default minima theme. However, when I run jekyll build, it doesn’t copy over folders like _layouts, _includes, etc to _site. How do I make Jekyll do this? How do you guys deploy the site? I tried disabling the Gem theme and manually copying those folders but that didn’t work either.

Thanks,
Ravi

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Think you may be confused as to what Jekyll is doing when you build or serve.

It copies any static assets that aren’t _ underscore prefixed… e.g. images, JavaScript, fonts, stylesheets, etc to the _site folder.

And it generates HTML out of your _posts, _layouts, and _includes, placing them into _site. It doesn’t copy the source files there for a few reasons:

  1. They’re source files and not something you typically need to deploy.
  2. They’re in _ underscore prefixed folders which Jekyll ignores by default when copying.
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Thanks, I think I figured out the issue. The html pages in _site cannot be opened using the file:// syntax for some reason, they have to be served through a HTTP server. Running python -m SimpleHTTPServer is a good way to play around with that.