When I use hugo server i get a blank page at http://localhost:1313. I have have the themes installed and I’m using the hyde theme defined in my config.toml as theme="hyde".Also I have a content being built called prime.md. It is not set to draft as well.
The easiest is of course if you have your project public at GitHub to test.
If not:
- output of
hugo version - output of screen when doing
hugo server
A tip could also be to have a look at /public and the index.html in there to verify that it’s empty.
Okay I tested it here in my office and hugo server is working now. Hopefully it will work on my laptop too. I had to move my project outside of my Google Drive so I didn’t get the annoying desktop.ini. Is that the only way to deal with that. I tried shutting it off to no avail.
Also I can’t upload my themes folder to github because it has git files in it. Why is that? When I deleted them before it prevented me from doing any further commits and I has to start over.
I found this article. http://stackoverflow.com/questions/5542910/how-do-i-commit-changes-in-a-git-submodule. However when I tried to git push it gave me another error permission to spf13/hugoThemes.git denied to zachdyer. 
Is this what I need to do?
https://help.github.com/articles/error-permission-to-user-repo-denied-to-user-other-repo/
No.
There are plenty of good resources out there for Git and Git submodules. I suggest read some.
For your case I would
- Remove themes
- Do a
git add submodule themes/hyde git@github.com:spf13/hyde.git
The above totally from head and untested.
It errored fatal: pathspec 'submodule' did not match any files
as I said, from head and totally untested …
Try
git submodule add ...
It says must be absolute path.