Jekyll Quick-Start Doesn't Work

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I've tried to start a Jekyll blog locally according to the instructions at jekyllrb.com.

So once I type:

jekyll serve

Server should be running at localhost:4000 but there's nothing. A blank page.

Here's what I get back after the "jekyll serve" command:

Configuration file: C:/Users/Atte/newblog/_config.yml
        Source: C:/Users/Atte/newblog
   Destination: C:/Users/Atte/newblog/_site
  Generating... C:/RailsInstaller/Ruby1.9.3/lib/ruby/gems/1.9.1/gems/posix-s
pawn-0.3.6/lib/posix/spawn.rb:162: warning: cannot close fd before spawn
←[31m  Liquid Exception: No such file or directory - /bin/sh in _posts/2013-12-1
4-welcome-to-jekyll.markdown←[0m
done.
Server address: http://0.0.0.0:4000
Server running... press ctrl-c to stop.

What could be the problem? I have (obviously) been unable to find the answer anywhere even though I've spent so much time on this.

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jekyll
According to the error message, Jekyll cannot find the 'welcome-to-jekyll.md'. Check if it exists. – Xin Huang

3 Answers

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It has to do with Pygments, you have two options: the simplest solution is disabling Pygments in _config.yml 

pygments: false

You won't have syntax highligth but you can use a client side solution like Prism. On the other hand, if you want to have Pygments, you can follow @zzheng answer.

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Go to the _posts folder and delete the dummy post welcome-to-jekyll.markdown file.

mine at the current time is: 2014-10-19-welcome-to-jekyll.markdown

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For latest version(2.3.0) use "highlighter: null" instead "pygments: false"