Hugo blog site Update

I have finally manage to make my first publish Hugo site. Not without a few issues and cutting myself on the way.

Build Script

I have a bash script that pulls this blog out of it’s own repo, builds it and then copies itself over to the /var/www directory.

mv disaster

My First mistake was this line: mv $WWWDIR/* www/blog.x0r.uk/
Now I ran this without $WWWDIR being set. So it effectively moved /* root into my web directory! I called it a day, but fortunately I ran that as a normal user, so no real damage was done, as it copied files if a mv isn’t possible.

As a way around it, a friend proposed mv ./$WWWDIR/* www/blog.x0r.uk/ as a safer alternative. So it will at least start with the present working directory.

git submodules

When I first run the script on the server to pull the repo, it build a page, but failed to produce a index.html, but there was a index.xml for RSS.

This was a easy spot, as the hugo errors says there was no theme, and I checked that we had no files checked out. So I had to add the following to the checkout script: git submodule update --init --recursive

Re-running the hugo build placed the index.html and all was hunky dory!

Happy Easter Everyone!