Deploying Hugo project to IONOS Webhost

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Has anyone tried deploying HUGO generated pages to a hosted site like IONOS or GoDaddy? I am a newbie to HUGO and just curious. Would like to see if I can replace my Wordpress site with a. Static site developed using HUGO.

Thanks

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You run hugo, then you copy everything inside of public to the root folder of your hoster. That is the simplest upload, via FTP or using rsync. Most “conventional” hosters offer FTP/SFTP/SSH access to your site and you can upload things in a post-build step.

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I use IONOS too. Here’s what I did/do:

  1. Created a SFTP/SCP/SSH account (should be right in the panel somewhere)
  2. Took note of the username and password (username should be something like u########), as well as the node/login domain (should be something like home#########.1and1-data.host)
  3. Logged in via SSH, and created a folder
  4. Pointed the domain to the folder for the site (in domain settings from IONOS Portal)
  5. Created a .ssh folder in the login root, then copied the contents of my id_…pub (“public” key) from my computer’s .ssh folder (you can create it using ssh-keygen command, follow the prompts (I would recommend putting a decent passphrase on it), then it should be in your .ssh folder ~ or Users/username)
  6. Installed rsync on my computer
  7. Wrote a shell script to upload from Linux (when I was on Windows I just did this part from a WSL terminal). I’ll put its template below, you’ll have to mod it for your username and node, replacing the #'s and SiteFolder to your folder. I also had to run “chmod +x uploadscript.sh” to make it executable, first.
  8. The only part you have to do after making changes, is run “./uploadscript.sh” and it will just take care of it for you.

uploadscript.sh

#!/bin/bash

hugo
rsync -aP --delete public/ u########@home#########.1and1-data.host:SiteFolder
rm -r public
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