The idea of how I finally install Octopress on Windows 8.1 is because I did it on Mac already.
And as always, I was being curious about Windows 8.1 operating system.
Simply “what about if I install Octopress on Windows” question. Then I tried to google around, and I write the method to install Octopress on Windows 8 that works for me below.
A note before we install Octopress on Windows 8.1: I dual booted my computer that’s why you see F:\> path in the video, in yours, should be on C:\>.
Install Octopress on Windows 8.1 Video
Step by step to install:
In this tutorial, I am using chocolatey, Windows sort of Homebrew version, enabling us installing stuff easier in Command Prompt.
Using this Windows Command tool is so fun, that I enjoy doing it, this is one of advantage of blogging with Octopress, you don’t need any FTP client to deploy.
See this FileZilla SFTP tutorial if you are interested.
1. Open your Command Prompt, by searching “cmd” on search charm bar, and right click it, select, “Open as Administrator”.
2. Install chocolatey inside Command Prompt, by clicking the copy icon on their website, and paste it in your Command Prompt.
@powershell -NoProfile -ExecutionPolicy unrestricted -Command "iex ((new-object net.webclient).DownloadString('https://chocolatey.org/install.ps1'))" && SET PATH=%PATH%;%systemdrive%\chocolatey\bin2. Install Git, by typing choco install git. Or shortcut:
cinst git
Now when you type,
git --version
It will say, ‘git’ is not recognized as an internal or external command, operable program or batch file.
Don’t worry, just exit your Command Prompt, and restart it again.
Now when you type
git --version
you should see:
git version 1.9.0.mysysgit.0
3. Install Ruby 1.9.3 from Rubyinstaller.org/downloads.
Click here to download directly from Rubyinstaller.org and choose the file yourself, as shown below.
Install it in your computer.
4. Now, when you type,
ruby --version
you will see ‘ruby’ is not recognized as an internal or external command, operable program or batch file.
To solve this, go to your C folder (mine is in F, because of dual-boot). So go to C:\Ruby193\bin folder.
Scroll down, and you should see ruby application, select, and right click it, go to “Properties”.
Here, copy the “Location”.
The right click on “This PC” and select on “Properties”, “Advanced system settings”.
In “System Properties” make sure you are on “Advanced”, then click on “Environment Variables” button on the bottom right.
In “Environment Variables” select on “Path”, click “Edit”
In “Edit User Variable”, in “Variable value”, add the ruby application path we coped above right after semicolon, and after pasted, add semicolon again at the end.
Click, Ok, Ok and Ok.
Now when you type
ruby --version
it should say ruby 1.9.3p545 (2014-02-24) [i386-mingw32]
5. Install Ruby Development Kit, by typing cinst ruby.devkit in your Command Prompt.
cinst ruby.devkit
Now, that we’ve set up our development environment, we will install Octopress, see official setup guide here.
In this tutorial I install it inside my “Documents” folder, so the command will be:
cd Users\Kim\Documents
Change “kim” to your Username.
1. Clone Octopress by copy and pasting
git clone git://github.com/imathis/octopress.git blogweb6octopress
Change “blogweb6octopress” to your site name or any custom names.
2. Then, typing:
cd blogweb6octopress
Then these 3 commands one by one:
gem install bundler bundle install rake install
To see your local Octopress website, type, “rake generate && rake preview”
Open it on localhost:4000.
To start creating post and other, see Octopress documentations.
That’s it, let me know how you did differently.
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