Jekyll on Windows Liquid Exception: Failed to get header

Question

I'm trying to use Jekyll on my windows 7 (64bit) PC.

I have installed Ruby, Ruby Devkit, Python 2.7, Jekyll and Pygments but getting this error

E:\jekyll\my-site>jekyll serve
Configuration file: E:/jekyll/my-site/_config.yml
            Source: E:/jekyll/my-site
       Destination: E:/jekyll/my-site/_site
      Generating...   Liquid Exception: Failed to get header. in 2013-07-19-welcome-to-jekyll.markdown
error: Failed to get header.. Use --trace to view backtrace

I made it work on you configuration with the following specifications: Only Pigments 0.5.0 works (I had to uninstall 0.5.2 and install 0.5.0 first). Also, in my PATH I had a reference to Python 3.3 instead of Python 2.7 that I had to change back to 2.7. Cf. http://stackoverflow.com/questions/17364028/jekyll-on-windows-pygments-not-working — Maate, Aug 09 '13 at 14:31
Just add this line to your _config.yml: `highlighter: rouge` it will works fine. — Rizwan Khan, Oct 26 '15 at 18:49

Miguel Leite · Accepted Answer · 2013-09-16T10:07:48.783

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I also got this error, and a couple of other similar errors too, and finally got to a solution: you need to have a couple of compatible versions of the required Ruby, Python and Pygments.

Install Ruby 1.9.3-p448 version (download here);
Install Python 2.7.5 version (download here);
Install Pygments 0.5.0

gem uninstall pygments.rb
gem install pygments.rb --version "=0.5.0"

I hope it helps.

Edited: Don't forget to add the correct PATHs to your system variables. In my case, it was:

C:\Python27;C:\Ruby193

In order to improve this content, there is a simple tutorial (written in Portuguese, but I guess you can understand the steps, always considering the versions of software/plugins listed above) - view tutorial.

edited Sep 16 '13 at 10:07

answered Sep 13 '13 at 16:25

Miguel Leite

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Just add this line to your _config.yml: `highlighter: rouge` it will works fine. – Rizwan Khan Oct 26 '15 at 18:49
I had the same issue and adding `highlighter: rouge` to my `_config.yml` worked. Thanks @GopaThemes – aaossa Jan 07 '16 at 23:31

score 4 · Answer 2 · answered Oct 03 '13 at 12:21

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Another possible cause for this error message on Windows is that the path to the Pygments scripts contains spaces. Took me a while to figure this one out...

answered Oct 03 '13 at 12:21

Stu Mackellar

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A million times this. Thank you! – Dom M. Dec 05 '13 at 16:12

score 3 · Answer 3 · answered Feb 25 '14 at 01:19

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For my situation, install pygments 0.5.0 or 0.5.4 both have problem. I fixed by re-install python 2.7.6. Please refer to following answer: https://github.com/jekyll/jekyll/issues/1181#issuecomment-35963876

answered Feb 25 '14 at 01:19

flashlib

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Thank you. I'm used pygments 0.6.3 and have the same problem while downgrade python version. – DARK_DIESEL Sep 18 '15 at 22:55

score 0 · Answer 4 · answered May 21 '15 at 06:12

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I had two versions of python installed on my system.(Windows 8.1) Python22 and Python27. I removed Python22, added Python27 to System variables and issue got fixed.

answered May 21 '15 at 06:12

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Jekyll on Windows Liquid Exception: Failed to get header

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