After relocating hugo site, "unable to locate config file"

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Hi, looked around and I see similar topics but not exactly my situation.

Had hugo site on laptop. Still there, works fine. I run hugo on it from site dir to build the site each time, no problem.

I now want to use my desktop. All files are in place, I see the config.toml right there. I go to the site dir, run Hugo, and get this error:
Error: Unable to locate config file or config directory. Perhaps you need to create a new site.
Run hugo help new for details.

Not sure why. My guesses are:

  • hugo doesn’t “know” about this dir, maybe I need to specify somewhere. the config.toml points to my domain online, as it should
  • permission issue, especially for Hugo (since this is linux). Wasn’t a problem before, maybe it is now?

What do you think?

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You could try running hugo with the --ignoreCache flag and seeing what happens. Maybe the cache is still looking in the old location. I’'m no expert on the details of Hugo, but that’s my guess.

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We don’t have enough info to help you. Share your code. Or create a minimal reproducible example (this exercise may help you find the issue yourself).

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Code from where? my Config.toml? I can’t create a sample because hugo quits right away with the above error. What can I do to give you more information exactly?

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Solved. This was an issue with my Hugo installation (snappy). I downloaded the binary directory to the site’s dir, ran it there, and all is well.

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This solution worked for me as well, thanks! Not sure what’s the difference between snap package and the source files.