# Jekyll build failing

**URL:** <https://talk.jekyllrb.com/t/jekyll-build-failing/2981>\
**Category:** Help\
**Created:** [June 12, 2019, 3:03am UTC](https://talk.jekyllrb.com/t/jekyll-build-failing/2981 "2019-06-12T03:03:08Z")\
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**Author:** ![dev\_dude](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/da6949/32.png) [@dev\_dude](https://talk.jekyllrb.com/u/dev_dude)\
**Post date:** [June 12, 2019, 3:03am UTC](https://talk.jekyllrb.com/t/jekyll-build-failing/2981/1 "2019-06-12T03:03:08Z")

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Hey all… Trying to get jekyll up and running… Everything install wise seemed to go well but the \_site isn’t being built upon **jekyll build**

Followed the [Jekyll Windows Installer Docs](https://jekyllrb.com/docs/installation/windows/)

**jekyll -v** shows I have the latest version

ran **jekyll build** all over the C: directory to nothing…

This is the output from the command line.

C:\xampp\htdocs\testing\>jekyll build --watch  
Configuration file: none  
Source: C:/xampp/htdocs/testing  
Destination: C:/xampp/htdocs/testing/\_site  
Incremental build: disabled. Enable with --incremental  
Generating…  
done in 0.016 seconds.  
Auto-regeneration: enabled for ‘C:/xampp/htdocs/testing’

Thanks

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**Author:** ![rdyar](https://yyz2.discourse-cdn.com/flex030/user_avatar/talk.jekyllrb.com/rdyar/32/710_2.png) [@rdyar](https://talk.jekyllrb.com/u/rdyar)\
**Post date:** [June 12, 2019, 3:47am UTC](https://talk.jekyllrb.com/t/jekyll-build-failing/2981/2 "2019-06-12T03:47:31Z")

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> [@dev\_dude](#):
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> Configuration file: none

I think that means there is no `_config.yml` file where you ran jekyll. If there an existing jekyll site there?

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**Author:** ![dev\_dude](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/da6949/32.png) [@dev\_dude](https://talk.jekyllrb.com/u/dev_dude)\
**Post date:** [June 12, 2019, 2:40pm UTC](https://talk.jekyllrb.com/t/jekyll-build-failing/2981/3 "2019-06-12T14:40:09Z")

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No jekyll site there. I was under the assumption if running the build to an empty subfolder would populate the config file and then I would modify. I tried running the build all around my C: drive with no success of it building \_site. Just ran, ended, nothing.

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**Author:** ![rdyar](https://yyz2.discourse-cdn.com/flex030/user_avatar/talk.jekyllrb.com/rdyar/32/710_2.png) [@rdyar](https://talk.jekyllrb.com/u/rdyar)\
**Post date:** [June 12, 2019, 3:19pm UTC](https://talk.jekyllrb.com/t/jekyll-build-failing/2981/4 "2019-06-12T15:19:06Z")

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if you want to create a new site you do `jekyll new whatever-name-you-want-for the sub-folder` and it will create a basic site.

Or you can copy someone elses site, main thing you need is a config file I think - but you will want a layouts and includes folder but I think the config file is the only requirement. I think.

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**Author:** ![dev\_dude](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/da6949/32.png) [@dev\_dude](https://talk.jekyllrb.com/u/dev_dude)\
**Post date:** [June 12, 2019, 9:10pm UTC](https://talk.jekyllrb.com/t/jekyll-build-failing/2981/5 "2019-06-12T21:10:07Z")

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You’re right. Glanced over the new portion of the documentation somehow… I’m still having an issue though… When I create the _new_ and run the _serve_, I am missing the outside of \_site folders/files… \_sass, \_includes, etc…

Any ideas?