wrong configuration_path with non-default jekyll source

[krodelabestiole]

Hello

I cannot access /admin url after having launched the "serve" command (error 500) and I get this message :
Errno::ENOENT - No such file or directory @ rb_sysopen - /path/to/my/website/src/_config.yml: /var/lib/gems/2.3.0/gems/jekyll-admin-0.7.0/lib/jekyll-admin/server/configuration.rb:36:in 'read'

I have to mention that I've changed the jekyll source path to "src" (and destination to "dist"). I find it cleaner this way.
Still, I see no reason for jekyll-admin to look for the _config.yml file in the source path /path/to/my/website/src/_config.yml, since it is in the project root /path/to/my/website/_config.yml.

sorry I don't know ruby. How could I fix this issue ?

[krodelabestiole]

everything works fine when I define my path the hard way :

# Returns the path to the *first* config file discovered
      def configuration_path
        "/path/to/my/website/_config.yml"
        # sanitized_path configuration.config_files(overrides).first
      end

but I can't change it the good way since I don't understand this line :
sanitized_path configuration.config_files(overrides).first
(line 44 in configuration.rb)

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[jameysharp]

I have the same issue with jekyll-admin 0.8.0 and the setting source: src in my _config.yml, which is at top-level.

As a workaround, things seem to work fine if I symlink src/_config.yml to the top-level copy.

[lkjimy]

I have the same problem. We all have basically the same folder structure. Same issue as #451. @jameysharp How do you make the symlink to the root level config? I had to copy the config file to the "src" folder, i suppose you did that too. I don't know how the symlink works.

[XhmikosR]

Any news on this? I also hit this since I never keep the src files in root.

[ashmaroli]

I'm afraid this can't be satisfactorily resolved because Jekyll doesn't have a notion of project root.
Jekyll has always looked for config files at the root of the configured source directory.

Here's an excerpt from Jekyll's source code:

      # Get configuration from <source>/_config.yml or <source>/<config_file>
      config_files = override["config"]
      if config_files.to_s.empty?
        default = %w(yml yaml toml).find(-> { "yml" }) do |ext|
          File.exist?(Jekyll.sanitized_path(source(override), "_config.#{ext}"))
        end
        config_files = Jekyll.sanitized_path(source(override), "_config.#{default}")
        @default_config_file = true
      end
      Array(config_files)