Building a local preview

There are two shell scripts available in each existing repository (including the template repository used to create new content): build.sh and preview.sh.

To preview, run the build.sh script; this is the one that actually builds a local version of the site (or, more precisely, the subset of the full site that resides in your current repository). Then, run preview.sh, which starts a webserver and serves the site at http://localhost:8080/. Opening this URL in any web browser will show you the preview, which will be available until you kill the process (Ctrl+C in the terminal).

Running both scripts requires a working Docker setup. Each script may also ask for your root or user password.

Using the regular Antora scripts

If you want to use the regular Antora build and preview workflow - follow the instructions on Antora Documentation page.

Once you have Antora CLI and Antora Site Generator you can build and preview the pages without the container scripts.

To build the pages in the project directory run:

antora generate site.yml

This will create a new directory public which contains all the nessesary files. Navigate there and run a server command. You might allready have a Python simple server, in which case run:

python3 -m http.server

or if you only have Python 2 on your machine:

python -m SimpleHTTPServer

It opens a local preview at port 8000.

If you have cargo (Rust package manager), you could also install and use miniserve or any other simple server of your choice for that matter.