Initially, this was a fully client-side website. Hence, I used Jekyll to build it. A static-site generator like Jekyll allowed me to use includes etc. without having to use a server-side language like PHP. Whatever content had to be loaded dynamically was done just using AJAX.
Later, there was a need to use some little snippets of PHP here and there (basically, for convenience). Hence, now the site is built in a slightly complicated way.
- Run
jekyll build --watchin the root directory.- Normally, you would run
jekyll serveand Jekyll would spin up a server on port4000where you would see the HTML page that Jekyll build for you. But now, this page has PHP and the server that Jekyll runs cannot execute PHP code. - With
jekyll build --watch, whenever a change is made to the source code, Jekyll will build the site and make it available to us in the_sitedirectory (like it usually does). - But now, this site has some PHP code, so it needs to be run using a PHP server.
- Normally, you would run
- Run
php -S localhost:9000on_site.- This ensures that the PHP code in the site built using Jekyll is executed.
- The site will now be available on
localhost:9000.