Multilingual site that shares static files

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I work on a bilingual website built with Hugo, and to build it i run the hugo command twice, each time with a different config file. The problem is that i have two directories under public that have the same static files (each has its own copy). This is unnecessary and redundant. I wonder if there is a way to let theme share the same static files (css, js, images).

Thanks!

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Sure. Just use the default static dir setting, or the same for both. The static files will be copied twice, but as they are the same … only one of each end up in public.

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thanks @bep! sorry for being so noob, but where is it documented?

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Thanks. If i understand from the documentation - that will set the static files source dir, not the target. It seems not to work.

I added the following line to my config:

staticdis = "public/static"

And when running Hugo i get the following:

ERROR: 2015/10/24 Unable to find Static Directory: /home/me/Hugo/public/static/
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That is correct and not what you are doing.

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I’m sorry but i do not understand your reply.

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There is no target static dir setting, only source. Target will be relative to the source.

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Ah. So does that mean that one can’t have only one copy of static files for a multilingual site?

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No. You can have multiple version by

Setting staticdir to different values and putting the static files in those directories.

I guess it is also possible to have two totally separate Hugo sites, or build to multiple output folders (public1, public2), but I suggest you read the core part of the documentation, try to understand it.

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Here’s how to do it:
See: Multilingual Site with two-pass build