Hugo server does not serve file created post-build

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I am not sure if this is the intended behavior.

# build site
hugo
# create a file post-build
echo "something" > public/foo.txt 
# test the site locally prior to deployment
hugo server

When running hugo server in the last step, the foo.txt file is not served.

It works with hugo server --renderToDisk, but I am wondering if this behavior is intended. It took me a few minutes to figure out why I wasn’t getting the expected results when testing prior to deployment.

EDIT: This is not new behavior. It worked the same way in v0.76.0, and probably earlier.

2

Well Joe, it’s probably because hugo server has no knowledge of the public directory unless you render to disk.

4

You are right, but if I hadn’t wronged the semver gods with my --renderStaticToDisk, you could have used that flag and your construct would work.