Get Started

This section needs you have Catsup installed.If you don’t, please go and Install it

Create a new site

It’s pretty simple to create a site using Catsup

$ mkdir site
$ cd site
$ catsup init

Let’s see what happened

$ ls
config.json posts

After running catsup init, Catsup generates a sample config file config.json and an empty post folder posts.

Now, let’s configure your new site.

Configure your site

Catsup can be highly customized, but you only need to change a few variables to get started :

  • site.name : Name of your site
  • site.description : Description of your site
  • site.url : Your site’s URL. Like http://example.com or http://example.com/site
  • author.name : Your nickname

Want to learn more about configuration file? Take a look at Configuration

After configuring your site, it’s time to start writing.

Write posts and pages

Let’s write a post first

vim posts/hello-world.md

a Hello World post looks like

# Hello, World!

- time: 2013-08-25 23:30
- tags: hello world

---

Hello, World!
This is my first post in catsup.
I'm writing in **MarkDown** !
<strong>HTML is supported, too</strong>

```python
print("I love python")
```

Then, let’s write a page to talk about your site

vim posts/about.md

a About page looks like

# About the site

- time: 2013-08-25 23:31
- type: page

----

Hi!
This site is generated by [catsup](https://github.com/whtsky/catsup).

Read about Post Syntax to learn more.

Build your site

After writing posts and pages, It’s time to build your site and let everyone know!

But don’t hurry, let’s take a look at your site first

catsup server

Then open your favorite web browser, go to http://127.0.0.1:8888 .

Head over to Preview Server to know more.

After making sure everything’s all right, let’s build the site

catsup build

Let’s see what happened

$ ls
config.json deploy posts

Deploy your site

Deploy to GitHub Pages

Thanks to GitHub, we have a perfect place to host our site.

You need to have a repo called YOUR_GITHUB_USERNAME.github.io. If you don’t, go to create one

Then edit your configuration file, change deploy section like this

"deploy": {
    "default": "git",

    "git": {
        "repo": "git@github.com:YOUR_GITHUB_USERNAME/YOUR_GITHUB_USERNAME.github.io.git",
        "branch": "master",
        "delete": true
    }
},

replace YOUR_GITHUB_USERNAME with your github username, like whtsky .

After that, let’s deploy your site to GitHub Pages

catsup build && catsup deploy

Then open http://YOUR_GITHUB_USERNAME.github.io to enjoy your fresh site.

Deploy to your own server

Catsup also supports deploy via rsync. Before continue, make sure you have rsync running on your server.

Then edit your configuration file, change deploy section like this

"deploy": {
    "default": "rsync",

    "rsync": {
        "ssh_port": 22,
        "ssh_user": "USER_NAME_HERE",
                    "ssh_host": "IP_ADDRESS_OF_YOUR_SERVER",
        "document_root": "DEPLOY_TO_WHICH_PATH",
    }
},

Here’s an example

"deploy": {
    "default": "rsync",

    "rsync": {
        "ssh_port": 22,
        "ssh_user": "whtsky",
                    "ssh_host": "whouz.com",
        "document_root": "~/whouz.com",
    }
},

After that, let’s deploy your site via rsync

catsup build && catsup deploy

Head over to Deploy Support to know more.

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