How to make all posts have a permalink with custom format "domain.com/blog/title"?

Question

What I'm trying to do is get all my posts to have the following format: domain.com/blog/title.

However, in my _posts folder I have a file named 2010-07-11-hello.markdown and it contains the following:

---
title: Hello
permalink: /blog/:title/ 
---
Hello World!

What am I doing wrong? The permalinks aren't being converted. For example, the URL looks like this: http://localhost:4000/blog/:title/ and I want the actual title to show up there.

score 27 · Accepted Answer · edited Sep 17 '13 at 10:25

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You should move the permalink setting into the _config.yml file as described at http://jekyllrb.com/docs/configuration/

edited Sep 17 '13 at 10:25

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answered Mar 13 '11 at 08:19

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+1 IIRC the `permalink` setting from the YAML Front Matter isn't interpolated; it's used exactly as typed. Only the `_config.yml` setting is interpolated. – Michelle Tilley Mar 13 '11 at 08:25
@brandon this is the piece I was missing, and thanks for adding it. I don't know if I would have understand why, or how to make it work without this helpful comment. – Noah Clark Mar 14 '11 at 16:13
@MichelleTilley this behavior has now changed, and `permalink` in YAML FrontMatter is interpolated as well (tested in `3.0.2`) – FloatingRock Jan 25 '16 at 07:32

How to make all posts have a permalink with custom format "domain.com/blog/title"?

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