Local HUGO server not picking up new posts

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Hi. I have used Hugo for quite a while, but i have encountered an issue with my local Hugo server.

It is not picking up content for some reason. I have tried to search everywhere for an answer to this issue, but have been unsuccessful.

It should be noted that if i push it to Netlify, everything renders just fine. But its somewhat annoying that i cannot develop content locally before i push it to Netlify.

Any way i can provide debugging information for you clever folks to help me out?

Thanks in advance for any help.

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some common pitfalls are in the Frequently asked questions and the Troubleshooting

Some places to look at since your CI build works:

  • compare your netlify command and arguments to the one used locally
  • compare the used Hugo versions
  • remove your local publishDir (default /public in your sites root)
    check the published structure and files after
  • don’t run hugo and hugo server in parallel
  • time zone differences (future dates)

These should not be cause of issue, as your site builds with your CI

  • _index.md vs index.md
  • draft, future and date settings

If you cannot track that down, the easiest would to share the repo.

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I tried copying my site to a backup and remove everything in /public , but now the site wont render at all.. simply get a Page Not Found error. :frowning:

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what about the hugo versions?

looks like it’s time share.

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My Local version is:

hugo v0.154.3+extended+withdeploy darwin/arm64 BuildDate=2026-01-06T16:30:17Z VendorInfo=Homebrew

I will check out the Netlify build version of Hugo, if i can find it :slight_smile:

I have tried updating my local Hugo installation several times, so 0.154.3 is just the latest and it still doesnt work.

Ill get back with build information for Netlify when i find it… Again, many thanks for your help and time!

Update:

Ive set this in my netlify.toml file:

[context.production.environment]
HUGO_VERSION = “0.154.0”
HUGO_ENV = “production”
HUGO_ENABLEGITINFO = “true”

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i would check the logs if this is really taken.

also try locally the same version

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Thank you… I will see if i can downgrade my brew installed Hugo version.

I will update this afterwards.

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I tried using version: hugo v0.145.0-666444f0a52132f9fec9f71cf25b441cc6a4f355+extended darwin/arm64 BuildDate=2025-02-26T15:41:25Z VendorInfo=gohugoio

And still no dice.. there must be something wrong in my website structure :frowning:

Update:

I even tried swapping out the theme for something else, and even this change is not appearing in my local server!!

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you said pushing to netlify works so it’s maybe a machine problem.

if you share your repo i can try to build or reproduce . also privately.

so we can narrow the root cause

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Sure thing, how do i go about sharing the repo? (sorry, im not an experienced user in this).

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Make the GitHub repository publicly accessible and share the link to it here.

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Should have mentioned this in the pitfalls at the beginning

  • missing code
    common pitfall when using git submodules
    if the repo uses Git submodules use git clone --recurse-submodules or git submodule update --init after clone
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Using the –recurse-submodules did the trick!

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