Pelican site on Netlify

Question

I am using pelican to create myself a static site.

I'm trying to build the site in Netlify. I am using the following image in Netligy:

Ubuntu Xenial 16.04 (default) Current default build image for all new sites

And am trying to build using the command:

pelican

However I get the following error:

pelican: Command not found

I have a runtime.txt file with 3.5.2

Has anyone managed to set up a site using pelican in Netlify? How do I set up my site as continuous deployment?

Answer 1

If you setup everything correctly, you can use the command make publish and publish would be output. Those are the typical defaults for pelican the last time I tested it.

If you do not have a requirements.txt file, you can run:

pip freeze > requirements.txt

You can include a netlify.toml file in your project (repository) root.

netlify.toml

[build]
  command = "make publish"
  publish = "output"

Note: the two publish command names are not related. The makefile publish is usually a default. The build.publish tells Netlify where to get the site for publishing to the CDN.