"Permission denied" when attempting to Jekyll serve on Android

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It’s possible I’m butchering the terminology, although what you said did result in me discovering something important.

When I say “host” what I’m actually doing is using the jekyll serve command and visiting the site at localhost:4000 in the tablet web browser, which I expect would interpret “/” as the root of the site. That said, what I discovered is that ‘jekyll serve’ doesn’t work on my laptop either. I hadn’t realized that, and after tinkering around I’ve managed to work out the following.

  1. The Github pages instructions state

    To create a User Pages site, name the repository using the naming scheme <username>.github.io.

    This isn’t actually needed, you can set it up in options. But it’s what I did.

  2. The baseurl in _config.yaml must match this repository name. Ex: /idtx314.github.io

  3. The url format for a github page is https://<username>.github.io/<repository_name>/
    Of course, this leads to doubling if you followed that naming instruction. Ex:
    https://idtx314.github.io/idtx314.github.io/

  4. At some point, while trying to make my url prettier, I set my baseurl to just “/”. I don’t really know why this worked, but it did, and my website url is:
    https://idtx314.github.io
    Only trouble (I’m aware of) is that doing this breaks jekyll serve.
    And so we have discovered the manner in which I dug my own grave.

I’ve sent that url out with job applications. So for the moment, I’ll “solve” the problem by just modifying the baseurl whenever I update the tablet’s copy of the repository and never push those changes. Later, maybe I can use a custom domain to redirect traffic from the older address.

Thank you for being around to offer expertise! You made this process a lot easier.

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