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The following is a description of the most common commands you will use while developing your Hugo project. See the Command Line Reference for a comprehensive view of Hugo's CLI.
Test Installation
Once you have installed Hugo, make sure it is in your PATH
. You can test that Hugo has been installed correctly via the help
command:
hugo help
The output you see in your console should be similar to the following:
hugo is the main command, used to build your Hugo site.
Hugo is a Fast and Flexible Static Site Generator
built with love by spf13 and friends in Go.
Complete documentation is available at http://gohugo.io/.
Usage:
hugo [flags]
hugo [command]
Available Commands:
benchmark Benchmark Hugo by building a site a number of times.
check Contains some verification checks
config Print the site configuration
convert Convert your content to different formats
env Print Hugo version and environment info
gen A collection of several useful generators.
help Help about any command
import Import your site from others.
list Listing out various types of content
new Create new content for your site
server A high performance webserver
undraft Undraft changes the content's draft status from 'True' to 'False'
version Print the version number of Hugo
Flags:
-b, --baseURL string hostname (and path) to the root, e.g. http://spf13.com/
-D, --buildDrafts include content marked as draft
-E, --buildExpired include expired content
-F, --buildFuture include content with publishdate in the future
--cacheDir string filesystem path to cache directory. Defaults: $TMPDIR/hugo_cache/
--canonifyURLs if true, all relative URLs will be canonicalized using baseURL
--cleanDestinationDir remove files from destination not found in static directories
--config string config file (default is path/config.yaml|json|toml)
-c, --contentDir string filesystem path to content directory
-d, --destination string filesystem path to write files to
--disable404 do not render 404 page
--disableKinds stringSlice disable different kind of pages (home, RSS etc.)
--disableRSS do not build RSS files
--disableSitemap do not build Sitemap file
--enableGitInfo add Git revision, date and author info to the pages
--forceSyncStatic copy all files when static is changed.
-h, --help help for hugo
--i18n-warnings print missing translations
--ignoreCache ignores the cache directory
-l, --layoutDir string filesystem path to layout directory
--log enable Logging
--logFile string log File path (if set, logging enabled automatically)
--noChmod don't sync permission mode of files
--noTimes don't sync modification time of files
--pluralizeListTitles pluralize titles in lists using inflect (default true)
--preserveTaxonomyNames preserve taxonomy names as written ("Gérard Depardieu" vs "gerard-depardieu")
--quiet build in quiet mode
--renderToMemory render to memory (only useful for benchmark testing)
-s, --source string filesystem path to read files relative from
--stepAnalysis display memory and timing of different steps of the program
-t, --theme string theme to use (located in /themes/THEMENAME/)
--themesDir string filesystem path to themes directory
--uglyURLs if true, use /filename.html instead of /filename/
-v, --verbose verbose output
--verboseLog verbose logging
-w, --watch watch filesystem for changes and recreate as needed
The hugo
Command
The most common usage is probably to run hugo
with your current directory being the input directory.
This generates your website to the public/
directory by default, although you can customize the output directory in your site configuration by changing the publishDir
field.
The site Hugo renders into public/
is ready to be deployed to your web server:
hugo
0 draft content
0 future content
99 pages created
0 paginator pages created
16 tags created
0 groups created
in 90 ms
Draft, Future, and Expired Content
Hugo allows you to set draft
, publishdate
, and even expirydate
in your content's front matter. By default, Hugo will not publish:
- Content with a future
publishdate
value - Content with
draft: true
status - Content with a past
expirydate
value
All three of these can be overridden during both local development and deployment by adding the following flags to hugo
and hugo server
, respectively, or by changing the boolean values assigned to the fields of the same name (without --
) in your configuration:
--buildFuture
--buildDrafts
--buildExpired
LiveReload
Hugo comes with LiveReload built in. There are no additional packages to install. A common way to use Hugo while developing a site is to have Hugo run a server with the hugo server
command and watch for changes:
hugo server
0 draft content
0 future content
99 pages created
0 paginator pages created
16 tags created
0 groups created
in 120 ms
Watching for changes in /Users/yourname/sites/yourhugosite/{data,content,layouts,static}
Serving pages from /Users/yourname/sites/yourhugosite/public
Web Server is available at http://localhost:1313/
Press Ctrl+C to stop
This will run a fully functioning web server while simultaneously watching your file system for additions, deletions, or changes within the following areas of your project organization:
/static/*
/content/*
/data/*
/i18n/*
/layouts/*
/themes/<CURRENT-THEME>/*
config
Whenever you make changes, Hugo will simultaneously rebuild the site and continue to serve content. As soon as the build is finished, LiveReload tells the browser to silently reload the page.
Most Hugo builds are so fast that you may not notice the change unless looking directly at the site in your browser. This means that keeping the site open on a second monitor (or another half of your current monitor) allows you to see the most up-to-date version of your website without the need to leave your text editor.
{{% note "Closing </body>
Tag"%}}
Hugo injects the LiveReload <script>
before the closing </body>
in your templates and will therefore not work if this tag is not present..
{{% /note %}}
Disable LiveReload
LiveReload works by injecting JavaScript into the pages Hugo generates. The script creates a connection from the browser's web socket client to the Hugo web socket server.
LiveReload is awesome for development. However, some Hugo users may use hugo server
in production to instantly display updated content. The following methods make it easy to disable LiveReload:
hugo server --watch=false
Or...
hugo server --disableLiveReload
The latter flag can be omitted by adding the following key-value to your config.toml
or config.yml
file, respectively:
disableLiveReload = true
disableLiveReload: true
Deploy Your Website
After running hugo server
for local web development, you need to do a final hugo
run without the server
part of the command to rebuild your site. You may then deploy your site by copying the public/
directory to your production web server.
Since Hugo generates a static website, your site can be hosted anywhere using any web server. See Hosting and Deployment for methods for hosting and automating deployments contributed by the Hugo community.
{{% warning "Generated Files are NOT Removed on Site Build" %}}
Running hugo
does not remove generated files before building. This means that you should delete your public/
directory (or the publish directory you specified via flag or configuration file) before running the hugo
command. If you do not remove these files, you run the risk of the wrong files (e.g., drafts or future posts) being left in the generated site.
{{% /warning %}}
Dev vs Deploy Destinations
Hugo does not remove generated files before building. An easy workaround is to use different directories for development and production.
To start a server that builds draft content (helpful for editing), you can specify a different destination; e.g., a dev/
directory:
hugo server -wDs ~/Code/hugo/docs -d dev
When the content is ready for publishing, use the default public/
dir:
hugo -s ~/Code/hugo/docs
This prevents draft content from accidentally becoming available.