Pagination doesn't generate page directories when permalink is set

[gabelevi]

(Issue copied from jekyll/jekyll#3471)

This tripped me up for 30 mins or so. I was trying to paginate /blog/index.html, but I had permalink: /blog set (I'm a n00b and I don't know what I'm doing). I did have paginate_path set correctly. The result was that visiting /blog would always start on the last page of pagination and be unable to find the other pages. None of the /blog/pageN/directories were generated.

In retrospect I can kind of understand what's going on. I suppose jekyll wanted to write _site/blog/page2/index.html, but permalink overrode it to write _site/blog/index.html, so each page was written to the same file. Perhaps an error when you keep overwriting the same file would help n00bs like me!

[parkr]

/cc #23.

Thanks!

[gabelevi]

Ah sorry for the dupe...I checked the issues before filing but didn't check the duplicates. Glad it's getting fixed!

[corysimmons]

This tripped me up for around 30 mins as well. Can someone please update the docs here to express this warning? http://jekyllrb.com/docs/pagination/

[parkr]

@corysimmons Would you be able to submit a pull request? That page is here: https://github.com/jekyll/jekyll/blob/master/site/_docs/pagination.md