This is a Vagrant configuration plus provisioning shell script that lets you easily vagrant up a local Jekyll-powered GitHub pages server. It accompanies my blog post: Vagrant, Jekyll and Github Pages for streamlined content creation.
Getting started is straightforward:
$ git clone https://github.com/kappataumu/vagrant-up-github-pages.git
$ cd vagrant-up-github-pages
$ sed -i 's#XXX#https://github.com/kappataumu/kappataumu.github.com.git#' bootstrap.sh
$ vagrant up
$ curl http://localhost:4000
That's all there is to it.
If you don't have sed laying around, you can simply tweak CLONEREPO right at the top of bootstrap.sh, replacing XXX with the URL for the GitHub pages repository that we'll instruct Jekyll to serve locally.