I got this weird problem. Locally, Hugo shows the default index.html page, and whenever I may an edit to my custom index.html page (any edit, even adding a space, literally), a refresh is triggered, as if Hugo wakes up, and says “hey, yes, that’s your index.html file!” and then Hugo correctly displays it on localhost
it’s possibly a caching problem? I don’t know
I deployed my Hugo site on netlify and I got the same issue. got no clue how to fix it. Really need assistance
My custom index.html is in layouts/index.html
I have a netlify.toml in my root. It’s configured like so:
[build]
command = "hugo --gc --minify --cleanDestinationDir"
publish = "public" # Your final built site goes here
[build.environment]
HUGO_VERSION = "0.145.0" # Match your local Hugo version
# Optional: Cache Hugo modules/themes for faster builds
[[plugins]]
package = "netlify-plugin-hugo-cache-resources"
The custom layout in layouts/index.html always load when I test.
hugo server
Moving it does revert the site to the themes index.html and moving it back makes it active again.
You have an error in the inline js since “#contactForm” does not exist const form = document.getElementById('contactForm'); but that is unrelated I believe,
Dunno if you solved something and I did not run that, but I have some findings for your branch fix-deployment maybe you need to synchronize and or simplify your setup.
for the theme you have
a .gitmodule configured
a git clone in themes/stack (committed)
an import as module in modules.toml
an empty theme in config.toml (theme = “”)
various hugo versions
netlify.toml → hugo 145.0
Dockerfile → hugo latest
update-theme → hugo 123.8 (daily update?)
github build action log: hugo 147.8 !!!
→ your and the themes layout structure is pre 146.1