# Jekyll serve: strange server addresses

**URL:** https://talk.jekyllrb.com/t/jekyll-serve-strange-server-addresses/540
**Category:** Help
**Created:** [May 16, 2017, 10:48am UTC](https://talk.jekyllrb.com/t/jekyll-serve-strange-server-addresses/540 "2017-05-16T10:48:40Z")
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### Author: ![scchow](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/71e660/32.png) [@scchow](https://talk.jekyllrb.com/u/scchow)
#### Post date: [May 16, 2017, 10:48am UTC](https://talk.jekyllrb.com/t/jekyll-serve-strange-server-addresses/540/1 "2017-05-16T10:48:40Z")

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I am trying to preview changes to the jekyll page before pushing onto Github.  
However when I use `jekyll serve` I get the following:

```auto
scchow@scchow-linux:~/Desktop/Link to GitHub/blog$ jekyll serve
Configuration file: <path>/GitHub/blog/_config.yml
Configuration file: <path>/GitHub/blog/_config.yml
            Source: <path>/GitHub/blog
       Destination: <path>/GitHub/blog/_site
 Incremental build: disabled. Enable with --incremental
      Generating... 
                    done in 0.289 seconds.
 Auto-regeneration: enabled for '<path>/GitHub/blog'
Configuration file: <path>/GitHub/blog/_config.yml
    Server address: http://127.0.0.1:4000blog/
  Server running... press ctrl-c to stop.

```

where `<path>` is just the path to the Github repository, just removed for brevity.

`http://127.0.0.1:4000blog/` does not seem like a valid address and I cannot open it on Chrome since it keeps trying to search instead.

If it helps, the repo I am working in is here: [https://github.com/scchow/blog](https://github.com/scchow/blog) and I have mainly been fiddling with the minima theme.

Thanks for your help.

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### Author: ![mmistakes](https://yyz2.discourse-cdn.com/flex030/user_avatar/talk.jekyllrb.com/mmistakes/32/2169_2.png) [@mmistakes](https://talk.jekyllrb.com/u/mmistakes)
#### Post date: [May 16, 2017, 11:59am UTC](https://talk.jekyllrb.com/t/jekyll-serve-strange-server-addresses/540/2 "2017-05-16T11:59:15Z")

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You’ve configured the baseurl improperly.

```auto
baseurl: "blog" # the subpath of your site, e.g. /blog

```

Change it to `baseurl: "/blog"`

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### Author: ![scchow](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/71e660/32.png) [@scchow](https://talk.jekyllrb.com/u/scchow)
#### Post date: [May 16, 2017, 8:25pm UTC](https://talk.jekyllrb.com/t/jekyll-serve-strange-server-addresses/540/3 "2017-05-16T20:25:57Z")

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Your solution worked. Thanks for the quick reply.