Can I develop a Pages project on a localhost machine?

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We do not yet have a properly configured GitLab Pages server so my goal is to be able to just develop a Pages project on my localhost and then eventually when our GitLab instance is properly setup, I can move my developed project over to it.

But for now, I would just like to be able to add the theme and create the markup in order to develop the project on my localhost machine.

What I have available to me is a GitLab instance where I cannot modify any of the domains. I’d like to be able to run Pages in a Docker container if possible, but it must stay on my localhost due to the nature of the work.

Is there any way possible to do any of this?

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You won’t need to run a local Pages webserver for development, there are alternatives.

If you are using a static site generator like Hugo, its CLI provides a server command which spawns a local http development server.

Example: The GitLab handbook uses Hugo and GitLab Pages. For local development, we run a local Hugo server. Running the Handbook Locally | The GitLab Handbook

If you do not have a server for static html/js code, you can leverage different language frameworks that offer local development servers. I often use these

# requires NodeJS
npx serve 

# requires Python 
python -m http.server 8000

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