What am I doing wrong with local Ocotpress generate?

octopress_me

# my _config.yml section

root: /
permalink: /blog/:year/:month/:day/:title/
source: source
destination: public/blog
code_dir: downloads/code
category_dir: blog/categories

This deploys fine to github pages (https://github.com/tobyweston/blog) and with a CNAME badrobot.com 
and domain setup, it all works lovely when visiting http://baddotrobot.com/

but the problem is that running 'rake generate' or 'rake preview' generates the site
but doesn't display styling correctly for me locally (making testing tricky).

It seems to create 

public
public\blog
public\blog\stylesheets etc

with (for example) the public\blog\index.html referencing the following

  <link href="/favicon.png" rel="icon">
  <link href="/stylesheets/screen.css" media="screen, projection" rel="stylesheet" type="text/css">
  <script src="/javascripts/modernizr-2.0.js"></script>
  <script src="/javascripts/ender.js"></script>
  <script src="/javascripts/octopress.js" type="text/javascript"></script>
  <link href="/blog/atom.xml" rel="alternate" title="bad.robot" type="application/atom+xml">

which for some reason, doesn't find the src/hrefs. If I change the style sheet line for example to

  <link href="stylesheets/screen.css" media="screen, projection" rel="stylesheet" type="text/css">

(dropping the leading slash), it works fine. That is to say it finds the stylesheet now.

I wondering what I'm doing wrong!

oh, and I hit http://localhost:4000/blog

Hi, Thanks for looking. I'm viewing things from the web server when I startup 'rake preview'. Is that what you mean? I get the same problem when I look at the /blog/public/blog/index.html directly. I didn't seem to have this problem when I was working without the top level domain name (ie, I used to have the root as below... # If publishing to a subdirectory as in http://site.com/project set 'root: /project' root: /blog Sorry, there's probably not much for you to go on and I'm sure I'm just missing something simple. All the best, Toby

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On 9 February 2012 21:55, Brandon Mathis < ***@***.*** > wrote: Are you viewing your website via the mounted web server or just opening the files on your disk? --- Reply to this email directly or view it on GitHub: https://gist.github.com/1782098