This is a folk from a Github Pages template for academic websites (https://github.com/OleVik/personal-academic-website), which was again forked (then detached) by Stuart Geiger from the Minimal Mistakes Jekyll Theme, which is © 2016 Michael Rose and released under the MIT License. See LICENSE.md. Meanwhile, I took xingjunm/xingjunm.github.io and a-paxton/a-paxton.github.io as reference.

• Download Ruby in RugbyInstaller. I selected Ruby+Devkit 3.2.4-1 (x64) , which is regarded as compatible version by official.

• Download bundler, type the following command and run in command windows:

  gem install bundler
  

• Download node.js in https://nodejs.org/en/.

• Run the following in command windows

bundle clean

(no need to use --force)

bundle install --verbose

• If it occurs Unable to load the EventMachine C extension; To use the pure-ruby reactor, require 'em/pure_ruby', then fix it by：

In your ruby installing path, like

S:\Ruby27-x64\lib\ruby\gems\2.7.0\gems\eventmachine-1.2.7-x64-mingw32\lib

Add the following command on the first line of the file eventmachine.rb

require 'em/pure_ruby' if not defined?(EventMachine)

or try:

gem uninstall eventmachine
gem install eventmachine --platform ruby
bundle install

• Run

bundle exec jekyll serve -l --trace

Delete Gemfile.lock

The cause of the problem is that html webpage cannot find the icons.

What you need to do is: put the following codes in any free space of _includes/head.html, if you fork from my repo, you won't get the problem.

<link rel="stylesheet" href="{{ base_path }}/assets/css/academicons.min.css"/>

and

<script src="https://kit.fontawesome.com/42df25671e.js" crossorigin="anonymous"></script>

I think the character 42df25671e is from my registered account. Thus, you are recommended to register fa account to get your own one. And it is free: https://fontawesome.com/start

Or, you use the wrong code to call it, eg. github icon

<i class="fab fa-github"></i>

I was wrong because I used

<i class="fa fa-github"></i>

Recently, I found that if I doesn't open private network, I also can't see these "Font Awesome icons". In other words, it is nothing about the problem of your source codes.

Use gem "jekyll", "3.9.3" in Gemfile

`rescue in create_default_data_source': No source of timezone data could be found. (TZInfo::DataSourceNotFound)

Add the following commands in Gemfile

platforms :mingw, :x64_mingw, :mswin, :jruby do
  gem 'tzinfo', '>= 1', '< 3'
  gem 'tzinfo-data'
end

gem install wdm -- --with-cflags=-Wno-implicit-function-declaration
or
gem install wdm --platform=ruby

The packages are free to use:

Academicons

Font Awesome