I am trying to use the Multilanguage feature but I am not able to generate the files. I am getting a blank page on localhost:1313/fr.
So this is my setup
languageCode = 'en-us'
title = 'My New Hugo Site'
defaultContentLanguage = 'en'
##Languages code
[Languages]
[languages.en]
baseURL = 'http://localhost:1313/'
languageName = 'English'
title = 'In English'
weight = 1
[languages.fr]
baseURL = 'http://localhost:1313/fr'
languageName = 'Français'
title = 'French'
weight = 2
On the markdown. I made two files in content
- _index.md for the english homepage
- _index.fr.md - I was thinking this is suppose to show up for localhost:1313/fr or locahost:1313.fr. But I don’t see this _index.fr.md page.
Please help. I have followed the documentation but I am not sure where I am getting things wrong.
Define baseURL at the root of your configuration file, and remove the baseURL values from the language tables.
diff --git a/config.toml b/config.toml
index c14492852..b3fe11086 100644
--- a/config.toml
+++ b/config.toml
@@ -1,14 +1,13 @@
+baseURL = 'https://example.org/'
languageCode = 'en-us'
title = 'My New Hugo Site'
defaultContentLanguage = 'en'
[languages.en]
-baseURL = 'http://localhost:1313/'
languageName = 'English'
title = 'In English'
weight = 1
[languages.fr]
-baseURL = 'http://localhost:1313/fr'
languageName = 'Français'
title = 'French'
weight = 2
HI @jmooring : Thank you for your response. I tried what you just sent over but doesn’t work. I get errors, hugo server doesn’t work. What is the easiest way to go about doing multilanguage sites. The documentation is so confusing in line with this. I tried everything there but doesn’t work. I also read through a few materials online - tried the Content Dir options - same issues.
what is the relationship between menu and the language? I have [languages] and [menu] - English works but the index.fr.md doesn’t.
How to Make a Multilingual Website with Hugo - This material worked but I don’t know why I have to write all the menu in [languages.en.menu], [languages.fr.menu].
Can you share your repository?
You did the first part, but not the second. When you see a diff file like I posted above, a minus sign at the beginning indicates the line has been deleted, while a plus sign indicate the line has been added.
You didn’t delete the lines; you pasted the diff.
Next, details matter. When the documentation shows this:
[languages]
Don’t do this:
[Languages]
Please read the TOML documentation to understand important syntax details such as:
- How to represent numbers (no quotes)
- How to represent boolean values (no quotes)
- When you can omit a table name (when there’s a sub-table)
Here's a clean site configuration file
baseURL = 'https://example.org/'
languageCode = 'en-us'
title = 'My New Hugo Site'
defaultContentLanguage = 'en'
[languages.en]
languageName = 'English'
title = 'In English'
weight = 4
languagedirection = 'rtl'
[languages.fr]
languageName = 'Français'
title = 'French'
weight = 5
[[menu.navmenu]]
identifier = 'basicinsight'
name = 'Basic Insight'
pageref = '/basic-insight'
weight = 1
[[menu.navmenu]]
identifier = 'Analyses'
name = 'analyses'
pageref = '/analyses'
weight = 2
[[menu.navmenu]]
identifier = 'blog'
name = 'blog'
pageref = '/blog'
weight = 3
[params]
logo = '/images/core-cognition-logo.svg'
alt = 'asds'
url = '/'
favicon = ''
blogpostId = '619f99a4cb879275fad566e6'
dataId = '61996b3541cc105c084a9af1'
[taxonomies]
tag = 'tags'
category= 'categories'
author = 'authors'
Finally, the Analyses section is still in draft mode. See:
content/analyses/_index.md
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You also have several deprecated constructs. Please replace .URL with either .RelPermalink or .Permalink
When I replace .URL with .Permalink or .RelPermalink I get errors. The documentation for Menu still states URL on the config file. I also tried changing the config - URL to permalink - Errors.
can’t evaluate field RelPermalink in type *navigation.MenuEntry
I my previous post I pointed to 3 places, and 3 places only, to make the change.
I suspect you changed it somewhere else too.