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 Preview your site
 -----------------
 
-Open a new terminal session, navigate to your site directory and run the
-following command to launch Pelican's web server::
+Open a new terminal session, navigate to your generated output directory and
+run the following command to launch Pelican's web server::
 
     pelican --listen