Move octopress blog to subfolder

Question

I have currently my octopress blog up and running on my digital ocean droplet and everything works fine. But it is in the root folder of the droplet and I want to move it to a blog folder. Is that just moving all content to that subfolder, or is there more work to do to get this done to be aware of?

Answer 1

According to the Octopress documentation, if you are deploying in a subdirectory you'll need to update the following files:

• _config.yml
• config.rb
• Rakefile

If you're deploying to a subdirectory on your site, or if you're using Github's project pages, make sure you set up your urls correctly in your configs. You can do this almost automatically:

rake set_root_dir[your/path]

# To go back to publishing to the document root
rake set_root_dir[/] Then update your _config.yml and Rakefile as follows:

# _config.yml
url: http://yoursite.com/your/path

# Rakefile (if deploying with rsync)
document_root = "~/yoursite.com/your/path" 

To manually configure deployment to a subdirectory, you'll change _config.yml, > config.rb and Rakefile. Here's an example for deploying a site to the /awesome subdirectory:

# _config.yml
destination: public/awesome
url: http://example.com/awesome
subscribe_rss: /awesome/atom.xml
root: /awesome

# config.rb - for Compass & Sass
http_path = "/awesome"
http_images_path = "/awesome/images"
http_fonts_path = "/awesome/fonts"
css_dir = "public/awesome/stylesheets"

# Rakefile
public_dir = "public/awesome"
# If deploying with rsync, update your Rakefile path
document_root = "~/yoursite.com/awesome"

source: http://octopress.org/docs/deploying/subdir/