jekyll - 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.

Answer 1

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