# Importing fastpages from github to gitlab

**URL:** <https://talk.jekyllrb.com/t/importing-fastpages-from-github-to-gitlab/4107>\
**Category:** Uncategorized\
**Created:** [March 22, 2020, 4:39pm UTC](https://talk.jekyllrb.com/t/importing-fastpages-from-github-to-gitlab/4107 "2020-03-22T16:39:04Z")\
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**Author:** ![fqassemi](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/b19c9b/32.png) [@fqassemi](https://talk.jekyllrb.com/u/fqassemi)\
**Post date:** [March 22, 2020, 4:39pm UTC](https://talk.jekyllrb.com/t/importing-fastpages-from-github-to-gitlab/4107/1 "2020-03-22T16:39:04Z")

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Hey All,

I am very new to Jekyll, and I intend to host a site locally and remotely served as a personal diary hosted on gitlab private repo. The original template has limited options, so I started to import the recent fastpages template into local repo. After downloading from: [https://github.com/fqassemi/diary](https://github.com/fqassemi/diary) into ~/diary I have commented - jekyll-github-metadata and instead replaced it with - jekyll-gitlab-metadata.

Now, after adding a few files into \_posts I still see the old page after running jekyll locally “bundle exec jekyll server”. However, as soon as making some changes into \_post (just cut and paste) the new changes appears.

I am using jekyll 3.8.6 and here is a full list of plugins:  
plugins:

- jekyll-gitlab-metadata
- jekyll-feed
- jekyll-gist
- jekyll-octicons
- jekyll-toc
- jekyll-twitter-plugin
- jekyll-relative-links
- jekyll-seo-tag

Thanks

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**Author:** ![fqassemi](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/b19c9b/32.png) [@fqassemi](https://talk.jekyllrb.com/u/fqassemi)\
**Post date:** [March 22, 2020, 8:04pm UTC](https://talk.jekyllrb.com/t/importing-fastpages-from-github-to-gitlab/4107/2 "2020-03-22T20:04:02Z")

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I am not sure is it a bug or something but running local server with “bundle exec jekyll server” or “docker-compose down || true” or when I just change files when jekyll is running I get different page layout and content!