diff --git a/site/.gitignore b/site/.gitignore
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..879aab2
--- /dev/null
+++ b/site/.gitignore
@@ -0,0 +1,18 @@
+# Licensed to the Apache Software Foundation (ASF) under one or more
+# contributor license agreements.  See the NOTICE file distributed with
+# this work for additional information regarding copyright ownership.
+# The ASF licenses this file to you under the Apache License, Version 2.0
+# (the "License"); you may not use this file except in compliance with
+# the License.  You may obtain a copy of the License at
+#
+# http://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0
+#
+# Unless required by applicable law or agreed to in writing, software
+# distributed under the License is distributed on an "AS IS" BASIS,
+# WITHOUT WARRANTIES OR CONDITIONS OF ANY KIND, either express or implied.
+# See the License for the specific language governing permissions and
+# limitations under the License.
+#
+.sass-cache
+Gemfile.lock
+target
diff --git a/site/Gemfile b/site/Gemfile
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..c13c470
--- /dev/null
+++ b/site/Gemfile
@@ -0,0 +1,20 @@
+# Licensed to the Apache Software Foundation (ASF) under one or more
+# contributor license agreements.  See the NOTICE file distributed with
+# this work for additional information regarding copyright ownership.
+# The ASF licenses this file to you under the Apache License, Version 2.0
+# (the "License"); you may not use this file except in compliance with
+# the License.  You may obtain a copy of the License at
+#
+# http://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0
+#
+# Unless required by applicable law or agreed to in writing, software
+# distributed under the License is distributed on an "AS IS" BASIS,
+# WITHOUT WARRANTIES OR CONDITIONS OF ANY KIND, either express or implied.
+# See the License for the specific language governing permissions and
+# limitations under the License.
+#
+source 'https://rubygems.org'
+gem 'github-pages'
+gem 'rouge'
+gem 'jekyll-oembed', :require => 'jekyll_oembed'
+# End Gemfile
diff --git a/site/_config.yml b/site/_config.yml
index 1c5e5bc..6fd56af 100644
--- a/site/_config.yml
+++ b/site/_config.yml
@@ -1,21 +1,29 @@
-# Welcome to Jekyll!
+# Licensed to the Apache Software Foundation (ASF) under one or more
+# contributor license agreements.  See the NOTICE file distributed with
+# this work for additional information regarding copyright ownership.
+# The ASF licenses this file to you under the Apache License, Version 2.0
+# (the "License"); you may not use this file except in compliance with
+# the License.  You may obtain a copy of the License at
 #
-# This config file is meant for settings that affect your whole blog, values
-# which you are expected to set up once and rarely need to edit after that.
-# For technical reasons, this file is *NOT* reloaded automatically when you use
-# 'jekyll serve'. If you change this file, please restart the server process.
-
-# Site settings
-title: Your awesome title
-email: your-email@domain.com
-description: > # this means to ignore newlines until "baseurl:"
-  Write an awesome description for your new site here. You can edit this
-  line in _config.yml. It will appear in your document head meta (for
-  Google search results) and in your feed.xml site description.
-baseurl: "" # the subpath of your site, e.g. /blog
-url: "http://yourdomain.com" # the base hostname & protocol for your site
-twitter_username: jekyllrb
-github_username:  jekyll
-
-# Build settings
+# http://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0
+#
+# Unless required by applicable law or agreed to in writing, software
+# distributed under the License is distributed on an "AS IS" BASIS,
+# WITHOUT WARRANTIES OR CONDITIONS OF ANY KIND, either express or implied.
+# See the License for the specific language governing permissions and
+# limitations under the License.
+#
 markdown: kramdown
+permalink: /news/:year/:month/:day/:title/
+excerpt_separator: ""
+
+repository: https://github.com/apache/apache-website-template
+destination: target
+exclude: [README.md,Gemfile*]
+keep_files: [".git", ".svn", "apidocs"]
+
+# The base path where the website is deployed
+baseurl:
+
+# End _config.yml
+