Creating new site in location other than ~/sites

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Hi there,

New hugo user here!

Hugo docs mention that ~/Sites or ~/sites is the location where hugo will create a new site.

How can this default location be changed?
Thanks!
-aa

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Most well-developed command line apps have help. With hugo, the switch is --help.

 hugo new site --help

You can specify the path where you want:

 hugo new site /path/to/my/project
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Can you point that out for me? Which doc says that? We need to look at it and see what it is referring to.

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Here: https://gohugo.io/getting-started/installing/#macos

Assumptions
You know how to open the macOS terminal.
You’re running a modern 64-bit Mac.
You will use ~/Sites as the starting point for your site. (~/Sites is used for example purposes. If you are familiar enough with the command line and file system, you should have no issues following along with the instructions.)
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Please note this line:

We present that assumption, so anyone can follow along, but if you want to use another directory, you may if you know how.

Rick says how it works, but I wanted to clarify that you should familiarize yourself with using the command line in MacOS, if you want to really know how to use Hugo there. :slight_smile:

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Thx.

I know command line :slight_smile: but wasn’t sure if ~/Sites was the only location or the default location.

Clarified now. Thx.