Just a few more steps and you're ready to go:ġ. Once installed, you can use the hugo command line tool to create the skeleton for a new site, via the command: hugo new site vĬongratulations! Your new Hugo site is created in /home/jbowen/blog/v. 223205 files and directories currently installed.) Selecting previously unselected package hugo. This matches the recorded checksum so we can go ahead and install using dpkg: sudo dpkg -i hugo_0.55.6_b 10:39:28 (437 KB/s) - ‘hugo_0.55.6_b’ saved īefore installing do a double check of the file by computing the SHA256 checksum of the downloaded. (I’ve chose v0.55.6 as it is pretty recent without being cutting edge): wget deb package from Hugo’s github releases pageĪnd install manually. To get a more up to date version we canĭirectly download a. Repository is 0.40.1 which is somewhat old (released in April of 2018). However, for Ubuntu 18.04 LTS (‘Bionic Beaver’), the version of Hugo installed from the standard Ubuntu package I run Ubuntu Linux at home and it is quite easy to install Hugo via the standard apt get packaging tools: sudo apt-get install hugo It also reduces the server-side requirements to host, allowing for cheap (or even free) hosting of In other words, there is no need for a database or other resources to serve your website,īy focusing on static content, Hugo makes deploying and maintaining a small website like a blog quite easy. It provides a means for creating a website built wholely from Hugo is a static website generator written in Go. This first series of posts will detail my setup to bring my blog to life from scratch.

I decided to self host my blog using Hugo and Netlify. While I could have used a blogging service or well established tools like Wordpress, pass along what I’ve learned to others starting to use Go.learn new things about programming and Go in particular and.I decided to start a blog with the two goals to: I will discuss the steps taken to create this blog and publish it to a custom domain. This is the first of several posts that will discuss how to set up a new blog using Hugo and Netlify.

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