Multiple static pages at root level?

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Hello,

I’ve been struggling to get this super simple thing to work. I’m not sure if there’s a bug in my version of Hugo or if I’m doing something very wrong.

Basically, I want my website to be accessible by: http://URL, and this gives me the home page — this much is working, index.md is being used. However, whenever I try to implement other pages, like http://URL/projects, the markdown file is not parsed and not put inside the public folder.

This is the structure of my content folder:

- content
- - index.md
- - projects.md
- - resources.md

Inside the public folder, I have index.html, but nothing for the other two. Their headers follow this pattern:

---
author: Name Here
title: Projects
type: static
---

I also tried changing the type to single, and many other values, without success.
Disclaimer: I’ve read basically all related material online, including topics here about rendering multiple root level html pages, without success. None worked.

Version: Hugo Static Site Generator v0.53/extended darwin/amd64 BuildDate: unknown

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Hi. You need to change content/index.md to _index.md. This will convert that directory level from a leaf bundle to a branch bundle, and allow your other pages to display

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Hi @zwbetz,

Thanks for the quick reply! :slight_smile:
I’ve tried doing this, but then when compiling I get this:
Error: Error building site: failed to render pages: render of "home" failed: "/PATH/site/themes/bootstrap/layouts/static/list.html:7:31": execute of template failed: template: static/list.html:7:31: executing "static/list.html" at <.Paginator.Pages>: undefined variable: $index

4

Hmm. This is a separate issue. We’d have to see your code to troubleshoot further

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5

If I change the type inside _index.md to single (it was static before), it works for all the pages, except index itself (home is inaccessible, there is an index.xml inside public, but no index.html).

6

Try totally removing that type line from front matter

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7

Managed to fix it by creating a file index.html inside layouts with this content:

{{ partial "head" . }}
<div class="container content">
  {{ .Content }}
</div>
{{ partial "foot" . }}

Now everything is working as intended.

Thank you a lot, @zwbetz. I had spent a lot of time on this without success. :smiley:

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Ah yes, you need a homepage template :slightly_smiling_face: this is why I asked to see your code. Anyways glad you got it working

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