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How to create a staging site for loopback.io

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Rand McKinney edited this page Oct 11, 2017 · 8 revisions

In addition to running the loopback.io site locally using Jekyll, you can create a "staging" site so others can see how a given set of changes will look. Follow these steps:

  • Fork the repo into your own personal org, e.g. https://github.com/crandmck. So the new repo will be https://github.com/<username>/loopback.io, where <username> is your GitHub username, e.g. https://github.com/crandmck/loopback.io

  • Edit _config.yml in your fork. In the very last line of this file, change:

    url: http://loopback.io/

    To:

    url: https://<username>.github.io/loopback.io

    Where <username> is your GitHub username, e.g.

    url: https://crandmck.github.io/loopback.io

    IMPORTANT Do not check in your change to _config.yml.

  • Go to Settings in your forked repo, e.g. https://github.com/crandmck/loopback.io/settings.-

  • Under Options > GitHub Pages for the Source setting, choose gh-pages.

Now your forked repo will be published at https://<username>.github.io/loopback.io/, e.g. https://crandmck.github.io/loopback.io/

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