Devserver is not producing proper landing page for the first run

[gnurenga]

Issue:

• Unable to get the landing page afer running make deveserver for the firsttime.
• If I run devserver 2nd time I am able to get the landing page.

Steps to reproduce the issue

• Checkout a fresh copy of chennaipy website source.
• Clone the theme from puresingle to theme folder
• Then run $ make devserver PORT=8000
• go to the browser enter http://localhost:8000
• You will get the following page.

[gnurenga]

Error message

Asciicast for terminal session

Starting up Pelican and HTTP server
/home/rengaraj/chennaipy-website/develop_server.sh: line 69: cd: /home/rengaraj/chennaipy-website/output: No such file or directory

• Above error message is due to cd $OUTPUTDIR runs before the output directory created by pelican
• Because of this Server points to the basedirectory not to the output directory in which html files are generated.
• But as per the shell script order we are changing the directory after running the pelican.

  $PELICAN --debug --autoreload -r $INPUTDIR -o $OUTPUTDIR -s $CONFFILE $PELICANOPTS &
  pelican_pid=$!
  echo $pelican_pid > $PELICAN_PID
  cd $OUTPUTDIR # as per the stdout message this runs before the creation of output directory
  $PY -m pelican.server $port &
  srv_pid=$!

• We can see the sequence in the above code.