Jekyll - Error Running 'Jekyll Serve'

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EDIT: Found the answer (see my answer below!). It involves using version 1.4.2 instead of 1.4.3, so if anyone has any ideas on getting 1.4.3 working, that could be helpful as well. Thanks! EDIT 2: Thanks to a comment below, it seems that 1.4.3 does have a problem when running on windows. https://github.com/jekyll/jekyll/issues/1948 I have just setup jekyll on my windows 7 computer. I have ruby installed along with the dev pack. I have run `gem install jekyll` and that completed with success. I have created a new site as per the jekyll documentation. The problem I am experiencing happens when I try to run `jekyll serve`. Please find below the error output. ``` PS C:\jekyll	est-site> jekyll serve --trace Configuration file: C:/jekyll/test-site/_config.yml Source: C:/jekyll/test-site Destination: C:/jekyll/test-site/_site Generating... C:/Ruby193/lib/ruby/1.9.1/fileutils.rb:247:in `mkdir': Invalid argument - C:/jekyll/test-site/_site/C: (Errno::EINVAL) from C:/Ruby193/lib/ruby/1.9.1/fil…

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Answering my own question, I managed to find a solution.

This appears to be a problem with Jekyll version 1.4.3. To fix the issue I uninstalled jekyll and installed version 1.4.2.

`gem uninstall jekyll`

`gem install jekyll --version "=1.4.2"`

Doing this and everything should work fine if you have the same issue as me on windows.

I guess this is because version 1.4.3 is new (released on 13th) and is unstable on windows.

Jekyll - Error Running 'Jekyll Serve'

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