Copy of 404.html page in themes/ananke/layouts does not generate any html file in public on build

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Hi, new to Hugo so apologies if this is a silly question.

I want to add a thank-you.html page to my ananke theme once someone has submitted a contact request.

I added a new thank-you.html page alongside the 404.html page in themes/ananke/layouts/ but when I run hugo, the new file is not copied to public. This is true of any file I add there. But if I update the content of the 404.html file, it is updated in public.

What am I missing, and what is the cleanest way to add this file?

hugo v0.119.0-b84644c008e0dc2c4b67bd69cccf87a41a03937e+extended darwin/arm64 BuildDate=2023-09-24T15:20:17Z VendorInfo=brew
GOOS=“darwin”
GOARCH=“arm64”
GOVERSION=“go1.21.1”
github.com/sass/libsass=“3.6.5”
github.com/webmproject/libwebp=“v1.2.4”

Any advice appreciated!

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Add it to the static directory.

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Thanks a lot, I’ve got something working for now with that approach.

I made a copy of the expanded 404.html file from output and edited it by hand.

But I’d still rather just put a simple new file in layouts, so that it gets regenerated each time to pick up any changes elsewhere.

Ideally something like this as “thank-you.html”:

{{ define "header" }}{{ partial "page-header.html" . }}{{ end }}
{{ define "main" }}
    <article class="center cf pv5 measure-wide-l">
      <h1>
        Thank you for your feedback.
      </h1>
    </article>
{{ end }}

Any idea why this approach isn’t working?

Thanks again

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layout contains templates that render MD files. And there are only so many predefined template names (like single.html, index.html, list.html, 404.html). thank-you.html is not one of them, so Hugo wouldn’t look for it and consequently not copy it anywhere.

You could either follow @jmooring’s suggestion or create a directory thank-you below content and an index.md inside it, telling that file to use the template you want. Or rely on Hugo’s automatism and create also a thank-you directory in your layout directory and add a single.html template to it.

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Thanks, that makes more sense now, I appreciate the lesson.