Jekyll paginate blog as subdirectory - pagination

Question

I'm using Jekyll for a static site and I'm trying to generate the blog as a subdirectory/subfolder:
http://example.com/blog
In the directory structure before running jekyll, this is blog/index.html.
I tried adding pagination by adding "paginate: 5" to _config.yml, but the generated url's were of the form:
http://example.com/page2/
i.e. no "/blog". This is fixed by:
paginate_path: /blog/page/:num
in _config.yml.
But the resulting generated pages at:
http://example.com/blog/page/2/
don't use blog/index.html as their layout. They use the root index.html. What's the point in even having the paginate_path option, then?
How do I get my blog at example.com/blog, with pagination, using Jekyll?

Answer 1

Use the destination key in your _config.yml file to set the base path where you want the output to be published to. For example,
paginate: 5
destination: _site/blog
Note that assuming your site is setup to server its root (e.g. "http://example.com/") from "_site" jekyll won't produce and "index.html" page at that location. Everything that jekyll builds will be under the "blog" directory, but that sounds like what you are after.

Answer 2

I found a fix via this page Basically it involves a bit of a hack to figure out if you are on the nth page of the blog and then includes a file that pulls in you blog section.
Create a file in _includes/custom/ called pagination. In that have your pagination code
<!-- This loops through the paginated posts -->
{% for post in paginator.posts %}
<h1>{{ post.title }}</h1>
<p class="author">
<span class="date">{{ post.date }}</span>
</p>
<div class="content">
{{ post.content }}
</div>
{% endfor %}
<!-- Pagination links -->
<div class="pagination">
{% if paginator.previous_page %}
Previous
{% else %}
<span class="previous">Previous</span>
{% endif %}
<span class="page_number ">Page: {{ paginator.page }} of {{ paginator.total_pages }}</span>
{% if paginator.next_page %}
Next
{% else %}
<span class="next ">Next</span>
{% endif %}
</div>
Now in your _layout/index.html add
{% if paginator.page != 1 %}
{% include custom/pagination %}
{% else %}
The original content of index
{% endif %}