So I’ve been fiddling with Jekyll and making some progress understanding the system. I am happy to have learned to create simple permalinks that don’t show all the directory structures of the site.

One issue I’ve struggled with for the last day or two is that Jekyll builds the site such that the index.html page is in the same folder that contains all the other files. Normally I have things set up so that index.html is the default page seen if you simply go to the site’s base URL.

Anyway, I’m getting around this by creating a separate index.html page for that upper level directory that simply uses a metadata redirect to the take readers to the blog index.html page. A simple solution. I’d rather Jekyll do it for me, but I can’t seem to get it to work, so this is fine.

More later…