How can I stop the blog posts permalink clashing with blog page permalink in Jekyll?

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I'm setting up a website using Jekyll and I'm struggling with the permalink structure. I have a main page for the blog section, listing all the posts, and I want the posts to have urls based on that. For example, the blog page url is

http://example.com/blog/

then the posts should have a url

http://example.com/blog/my_post_title/

However, when I set the posts permalink to 

permalink: /blog/:title

in either the _config.yml file or in an individual post file, the main blog page stops displaying. Instead you get a page with "Index of /blog/" at the top and a WEBrick line at the bottom.

I get the same behaviour if I try setting the category of a post to blog using 

category: blog

Is it possible to have the posts under main page like that or do they have to have a completely unique url?

Thanks...

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1 Answers

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To have Jekyll posts under the blog directory use the baseurl option in _config.yml:

baseurl: /blog

Base URL - Serve the website from the given base URL

Then set the permalink as "title" only:

permalink: /:title

Update based on comments

If you put permalink: /blog/:title in a post, it won't work, you need to specify the permalink without placeholders like /blog/this-is-my-title.

In this case I would create a directory called blog, and all the posts will be in blog/_posts.

Then in _config.yml the permalink as: permalink: /:categories/:title. So every post in the blog folder will have an url like: /blog/my-post-title.