[SOLVED] Hugo multilingual setup assistance needed!

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Hello.

Completely new to hugo. I’ve decided to go with distributed content into own content dirs (contentDir setting), since content will differ from language to language. Say, we have 2 languages “en”, “es”

My content looks like this:

content/
+-- en/
    +-- news/
        +-- _index.md
        +-- news1.md
+-- es/
     +-- news/
        +-- _index.md
        +-- news1.md

The point is, news is not being generated at all. I’m compiling with -D flags. I do not use a theme. I have created _default/list.html and _default/signle.html layouts.

My problem, is that I can navigate to /en or /es urls, but not to /en/news or /es/news. It’s not compiled.

Can anyone point out what I am missing?
Thank you.

2

Do you have a repo you can share?

3

Hey.

Thanks! Sure, there: https://github.com/mr-moon/hugo-ml-test

4

I’ve got the same layout than yours (see https://github.com/moodlebox/moodlebox.net).

You’ve to add in your layout folder a news/single.html template, to get layout/news/single.html. If I’ve understood Hugo (still a newbie too), your news should be generated.

5

Thanks, great site you have out there!

Tried it - same problem. The only difference I noticed, is that you don’t have content/en/index.md. So I removed it, and I got the news section to render.

Thanks.

Can anyone explain this?

With my limited knowledge, I understand, that if index.md is present, the section is considered as a leaf bundle and nested content is then ignored. However, I’m missing out the point, if manually put the _index.md into the nested section of a leaf bundle it should that section as a branch bundle, no?

I’m a bit confused.

/me went reading https://gohugo.io/content-management/page-bundles/ one last time

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Oh actually, by the great Trial and Error path i discovered, that having an index.md file in a section triggers that section to be rendered as a single page using single.html layout with content from index.md. Now, having _index.md does the same, but switches to the list.html layout. Eureka!