Jekyll: Following quick start gives a malformed site

[SurajVerma]

I am very new to jekyll. I tried the quick start guide mentioned on the homepage which is

~ $ gem install jekyll bundler
~ $ jekyll new myblog
~ $ cd myblog
~/myblog $ bundle install
~/myblog $ bundle exec jekyll serve

=> Now browse to http://localhost:4000

but it is giving me a malformed site

until I am modifying the _config.yml site.
changing this url: "http://example.com" # the base hostname & protocol for your site to this url: "" # the base hostname & protocol for your site in _config.yml file makes it work for me. Am I missing something or this is the default behaviour ? And if it is, shouldn't there be a mention of this in the quick start ?

[jaybe-jekyll]

Hi; and welcome. You come at a time of transition to gem-based themes which are awesome.

The default _config.yml that comes with the default minima theme contains a configuration variable, url: http://example.com.

This default configuration is about to change to keep things from breaking upfront.

For now, you can comment out the url: configuration variable, or change it to your domain.

[jaybe-jekyll]

Bonus: Use/view your web browser developer tools to see the CSS resource that is being called (http://example.com/css/main.css) and not found, explaining why the site styling breaks.

[pathawks]

Thanks @jaybe-jekyll for such a good explanation.

@3ncrypter Sorry that your first experience with Jekyll led you so quickly into a roadblock. We are working to improve this in the next version:+1:

[SurajVerma]

@jaybe-jekyll @pathawks Thank you very much both of you for your help. @jaybe-jekyll as said earlier, I figured that out, but because it was not mentioned anywhere so I thought I am missing something that is why it is giving me a wrong config/css path. By the way, I am lovin it (coming from wordpress). Thanks again. Cheers. :+1: :)