When I run my Hugo Quickstart website locally, it works fine. However, if I deploy it via Netlify, the home page (i.e., index.html) is not showing properly. See the photo below.
It seems that the culprit is the empty/missing index.html which forces Netlify’s pipeline to override this empty file. Does anyone know how I can generate this explicitly on Hugo? I’ve been reading something about _index.md, but I do not know how to keep the Ananke theme layout while generating this index.html.
Make sure you have the _index.md file in content directory as you have mentioned. I don’t know if a layouts/index.html is needed when you are using a theme, I assume not?
To help you diagnose what’s wrong I would try to replicate the Netlify process as close as possible. Delete your public folder, git commit that and then add the public folder to the .gitignore file so that you aren’t committing what Netlify should be building. Then locally, with a clean public folder run hugo and in theory if it’s the same version of hugo that Netlify build is using then you should have the same output. Then you can check your built public/index.html file.
