How do I run a local web server?

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Hi @ekothe, this is not really about publications but can you tell me how to deploy your site locally? Its tedious to push every little change to my github repo to see my live site. Thanks :slight_smile:

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Hugo includes a web server for development purposes.

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thanks for that! however, when I try to run hugo server I get :
Error: Unable to locate Config file. Perhaps you need to create a new site.
Run hugo help new for details. (Unsupported Config Type “”)

When I try to run hugo new site my-website it says
Error: /home/nabila/Desktop/github/my-website already exists and is not empty

any suggestions?

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You have to run hugo server from the root of your site. Using your example:

$ cd /home/nabila/Desktop/github/my-website
$ hugo server

This assumes that my-website is an actual hugo site, and not something else

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hi @zwbetz, i have actually run hugo server from my website directory /home/nabila/Desktop/github/my-website and that is when I got the following error:

Error: Unable to locate Config file. Perhaps you need to create a new site.
Run  `hugo help new`  for details. (Unsupported Config Type “”)
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If you can, share your code. This will be much easier to troubleshoot if so.

Reading that error message again, it can’t find your config file. So do you have a config.toml file?

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sure thing @zwbetz, my code is located here: https://github.com/nabsabraham/my-website

a thing to note, (sorry if this is confusing), when using my linux work machine and running hugo server in the root folder, i get:
Error: Unable to locate Config file. Perhaps you need to create a new site.
Run hugo help new for details. (Unsupported Config Type “”)

when running hugo server in the root folder on my Windows machine, I get:
Total in 1002 ms Watching for changes in C:\Users\Nabilla Abraham\Desktop\github\my-website\{content,static} Watching for config changes in , C:\Users\Nabilla Abraham\Desktop\github\my-website\config\_default Environment: "development" Serving pages from memory Running in Fast Render Mode. For full rebuilds on change: hugo server --disableFastRender Web Server is available at //localhost:1313/ (bind address 127.0.0.1) Press Ctrl+C to stop

however, the localhost:1313 is completely blank, but my website does deploy, see here: www.nabilaabraham.com

appreciate all your help!

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It runs fine for me in Windows and Ubuntu. So must be something going on with your environment.

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So I notice your site uses the newer config dir feature

config/
└── _default
    ├── config.toml
    ├── languages.toml
    ├── menus.toml
    └── params.toml

So I’d check that your hugo version is updated to the most recent (currently 0.54.0)

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My Windows hugo version:

Hugo Static Site Generator v0.54.0-B1A82C61 windows/amd64 BuildDate: 2019-02-01T09:42:02Z

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But your Windows setup runs fine, no? I meant your Linux setup, where you get the “Config” error.

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Sorry about the late reply! I have updated my linux environment and it runs fine :slight_smile:
My windows environment says its deployed the site locally to port 1313 however when I try to go to that address, it is a blank page. I am using Netlify for all deploys - is it something I have to change there?

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Good deal.

So your Windows setup and Netlify deploy wouldn’t affect each other in that way.

You could try clearing your browser’s history/cache, a different browser, etc