From e5d4e90b8fdc52e51bbf27e1896ef84b79b4b502 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Alexis Metaireau Date: Wed, 17 Aug 2011 10:38:48 +0200 Subject: [PATCH] update the docs on how to view generated blog --- docs/getting_started.rst | 14 ++++++++++++++ 1 file changed, 14 insertions(+) diff --git a/docs/getting_started.rst b/docs/getting_started.rst index f10afa68..deca0c17 100644 --- a/docs/getting_started.rst +++ b/docs/getting_started.rst @@ -180,3 +180,17 @@ If you want to publish an article as a draft, for friends to review it for instance, you can add a ``status: draft`` to its metadata, it will then be available under the ``drafts`` folder, and not be listed under the index page nor any category page. + +Viewing the generated files +--------------------------- + +The files generated by pelican are static files, so you don't actually need +something special to see what's hapenning with the generated files. + +You can either run your browser on the files on your disk:: + + $ firefox output/index.html + +Or run a simple web server using python:: + + cd output && python -m SimpleHTTPServer