# Problem and fix for quick start guide Ananke theme (Hugo v0.36.1)

**URL:** <https://discourse.gohugo.io/t/problem-and-fix-for-quick-start-guide-ananke-theme-hugo-v0-36-1/10844>\
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**Created:** [March 4, 2018, 1:38pm UTC](https://discourse.gohugo.io/t/problem-and-fix-for-quick-start-guide-ananke-theme-hugo-v0-36-1/10844 "2018-03-04T13:38:47Z")\
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**Author:** ![hjh](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/9fc348/32.png) [@hjh](https://discourse.gohugo.io/u/hjh)\
**Post date:** [March 4, 2018, 1:38pm UTC](https://discourse.gohugo.io/t/problem-and-fix-for-quick-start-guide-ananke-theme-hugo-v0-36-1/10844/1 "2018-03-04T13:38:47Z")

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Hello

I have just started using Hugo and I like that it is easy to install, fast and comes with a good set of conventions.

I followed the quick start guide

> **[Quick Start](https://gohugo.io/getting-started/quick-start/)**
>
> Create a Hugo site using the beautiful Ananke theme.

It did not work until I discovered that I have to do

```
 echo 'themesDir = "themes"' >> config.toml

```

on the command line or edit config.toml (Step 5 of the quick start guide); put a comment in front of

themesDir = “…/…”

or delete that line alltogether.

The complete installation log is below [1]. Included is also a remark about changing tags while running the server with live-reload.

This will help other people not to get stuck just in the ‘quick start’.

Otherwise the Anake theme is very useful as is.

Regards

–HJH

[1] Steps in quick start to set up a hugo site with the ananke theme.  
Fix for

> **[Quick Start](https://gohugo.io/getting-started/quick-start/#step-5-customize-the-theme)**
>
> Create a Hugo site using the beautiful Ananke theme.

```
hugo new site my-hugo-site
cd my-hugo-site
git clone https://github.com/budparr/gohugo-theme-ananke.git themes/ananke
cp themes/ananke/exampleSite/config.toml .
rm archetypes/default.md
cp -R themes/ananke/exampleSite/content/* ./content
echo 'theme = "ananke"' >> config.toml
echo 'themesDir = "themes"' >> config.toml

```

or edit config.toml and comment out

```
 themesDir = "../.." 

```

by putting # in front.

Then start the development web server with

```
 hugo server -Dw

```

The flag D means ‘show files win draft mode as well’, the flag w means ‘watch’, i.e. live-reload.

After changing tags in a file under ‘post’

```
      hugo server -Dw

```

needs to be restarted otherwise e.g.

```
http://localhost:1313/tags/scene/

```

will not show an updated list.

To deploy into the ‘public’ directory run

```
hugo

```

To create content

```
 hugo new post/my-first-page.md

```

Then edit the file

```
content/post/my-first-page.md
```