Hugo creates an index.html file and rss.xml file in my /category/ directory

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Hugo creates an index.html file and rss.xml file in my /category/ directory.

Is there a way to turn this off?

I just want the following:

/category/category1/
/category/category2/
/category/category3/
/category/category4/

And not an index file in the /category/ folder.

Previous version of Hugo didn’t add it, but the Hugo versions of 2023 add it.

2

Hugo always creates an index.html for your HTML output. That’s the way it works. That is the way it has always worked.

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Hugo version 0.111.3 doesn’t create a HTML and RSS.xml file in my /category/ folder when I use “disableKinds = [“taxonomyTerm”]” in my hugo.toml file.

And when I go to https://www.example.com/category/ it gives a 404 (just like I want it), and https://www.example.com/category/category-name/ shows the page of that category.

4

If you want to disable creation of taxonomy pages (list of terms) and term pages (list of content with current term):

disableKinds = ['taxonomy','term']

The taxonomyTerm page Kind has been obsolete for several years.

5

Hugo version 0.112.0: “Allow legacy taxonomyTerm in disableKinds”. Like I said before, it works. It doesn’t add a HTML and rss.xml file in the /category/ folder.

And I did not say that I don’t want category pages, I just don’t want an HTML file in the /category/ folder, only in the /category/category-name/ folders.

I want category pages. But a HTML file in the /category/ folder is useless.

I don’t need a page that lists all categories because all categories are already in the menu (navigation) of my website.

So what I want is to have categories like (examples):

/category/books/
/category/movies/
/category/music/

But nothing in the /category/ folder. If you go to /category/ it should give a 404.

What I want works with hugo v0.111.3, but when I want to use a newer version of Hugo, it doesn’t work anymore.

6

I must be doing something wrong or different.

hugo v0.115.3-5c2e014a5150553a9fa4f9c1eb7dc4db89c0f1ab+extended linux/amd64 BuildDate=2023-07-13T16:11:34Z VendorInfo=gohugoio

config

disableKinds = ['taxonomy']

[taxonomies]
category = 'category'

structure

content/
├── posts/
│   └── post-1.md  <-- category = ['category-a']
└── _index.md

published

public/
├── category/     <-- no index.html or index.xml in this directory
│   └── category-a/
│       ├── index.html
│       └── index.xml
├── posts/
│   ├── post-1/
│   │   └── index.html
│   ├── index.html
│   └── index.xml
├── favicon.ico
├── index.html
├── index.xml
└── sitemap.xml
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I’ve logged a couple of issues related to the obsolete (but not yet removed) taxonomyTerm page kind:

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