# Error: "C:\\Hugo\\bin\\config.toml:1:1"

**URL:** <https://discourse.gohugo.io/t/error-c-hugo-bin-config-toml1/31101>\
**Category:** support\
**Created:** [February 7, 2021, 3:06pm UTC](https://discourse.gohugo.io/t/error-c-hugo-bin-config-toml1/31101 "2021-02-07T15:06:04Z")\
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**Author:** ![Oleh\_Shynkarenko](https://yyz2.discourse-cdn.com/flex036/user_avatar/discourse.gohugo.io/oleh_shynkarenko/32/13516_2.png) [@Oleh\_Shynkarenko](https://discourse.gohugo.io/u/Oleh_Shynkarenko)\
**Post date:** [February 7, 2021, 3:06pm UTC](https://discourse.gohugo.io/t/error-c-hugo-bin-config-toml1/31101/1 "2021-02-07T15:06:04Z")

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While starting the server, I got a very strange message from my PC:

Error: “C:\Hugo\bin\config.toml:1:1”: unmarshal failed: Near line 1 (last key parsed ‘theme = “dream”’): expected key separator ‘=’, but got ‘\r’ instead

But I never wrote any separators at all, I just printed this to start a new theme:

echo ‘theme = “dream”’ \>\> config.toml

and then:

hugo server -D

So, what is going on?

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**Author:** ![Mehedi\_Sharif](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/278dde/32.png) [@Mehedi\_Sharif](https://discourse.gohugo.io/u/Mehedi_Sharif)\
**Post date:** [February 7, 2021, 3:17pm UTC](https://discourse.gohugo.io/t/error-c-hugo-bin-config-toml1/31101/2 "2021-02-07T15:17:30Z")

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Hey @Oleh_Shynkarenko

Where did you run the command `echo ‘theme = “dream”’ >> config.toml` ?

You can simply follow these steps to get into it.

1. git clone [https://github.com/g1eny0ung/hugo-theme-dream.git](https://github.com/g1eny0ung/hugo-theme-dream.git)
2. open a terminal on the cloned folder (which is `hugo-theme-dream`)
3. cd exampleSite/
4. hugo server --themesDir …/…

it will serve the theme on your localhost.

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**Author:** ![davidsneighbour](https://yyz2.discourse-cdn.com/flex036/user_avatar/discourse.gohugo.io/davidsneighbour/32/24507_2.png) [@davidsneighbour](https://discourse.gohugo.io/u/davidsneighbour)\
**Post date:** [February 7, 2021, 3:17pm UTC](https://discourse.gohugo.io/t/error-c-hugo-bin-config-toml1/31101/3 "2021-02-07T15:17:40Z")

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" is not ”  
take a look in a text editor into your config.toml and fix the "

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**Author:** ![Oleh\_Shynkarenko](https://yyz2.discourse-cdn.com/flex036/user_avatar/discourse.gohugo.io/oleh_shynkarenko/32/13516_2.png) [@Oleh\_Shynkarenko](https://discourse.gohugo.io/u/Oleh_Shynkarenko)\
**Post date:** [February 7, 2021, 3:23pm UTC](https://discourse.gohugo.io/t/error-c-hugo-bin-config-toml1/31101/4 "2021-02-07T15:23:39Z")

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You mean, I should delete “” at all, as they prevent system to work?

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**Author:** ![Oleh\_Shynkarenko](https://yyz2.discourse-cdn.com/flex036/user_avatar/discourse.gohugo.io/oleh_shynkarenko/32/13516_2.png) [@Oleh\_Shynkarenko](https://discourse.gohugo.io/u/Oleh_Shynkarenko)\
**Post date:** [February 7, 2021, 3:27pm UTC](https://discourse.gohugo.io/t/error-c-hugo-bin-config-toml1/31101/5 "2021-02-07T15:27:33Z")

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I run them in Command Line:

 ![image](https://canada1.discourse-cdn.com/flex036/uploads/gohugo/original/2X/3/35021b54ae52363af2580f264fb610004f39a396.png)

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**Author:** ![Mehedi\_Sharif](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/278dde/32.png) [@Mehedi\_Sharif](https://discourse.gohugo.io/u/Mehedi_Sharif)\
**Post date:** [February 7, 2021, 3:32pm UTC](https://discourse.gohugo.io/t/error-c-hugo-bin-config-toml1/31101/6 "2021-02-07T15:32:18Z")

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you can follow the steps I just provided.