# \[Solved\] Section URL not working

**URL:** <https://discourse.gohugo.io/t/solved-section-url-not-working/5192>\
**Category:** support\
**Created:** [January 19, 2017, 5:40pm UTC](https://discourse.gohugo.io/t/solved-section-url-not-working/5192 "2017-01-19T17:40:12Z")\
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**Author:** ![benmarte](https://yyz2.discourse-cdn.com/flex036/user_avatar/discourse.gohugo.io/benmarte/32/5948_2.png) [@benmarte](https://discourse.gohugo.io/u/benmarte)\
**Post date:** [January 19, 2017, 5:40pm UTC](https://discourse.gohugo.io/t/solved-section-url-not-working/5192/1 "2017-01-19T17:40:13Z")

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So I have a hugo site that has a blog section and we are trying to use github as our editor for blog post authors so we decided to make the blog section a git submodule.

The issue I’m having is that we want to use a different url than the name of the blog repo so for example the repos name is: `descriptive-blog-repo-name` and I want to use a simple url like `/blog`

So I said this should be fairly simple so I went ahead and created an `_index.md` file under the section folder I put a url parameter on the front matter but it doesn’t work.

I’ve searched for quite a bit and tried doing these suggestions but had no luck:

> **[Section/list urls and templates on multilingual sites](https://discourse.gohugo.io/t/section-list-urls-and-templates-on-multilingual-sites/2669)**
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> Hello, I’m creating a multilingual site and have a two parted questions for you guys: Is there any way to change the permalink of /post while still keeping the content in content/post? (I know it’s possible to change the permalink to single posts...

> **[How to customise a taxonomy url? Title is MBCS](https://discourse.gohugo.io/t/how-to-customise-a-taxonomy-url-title-is-mbcs/4985/3)**
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> Thank you very much for your reply. Okay, I’ve got that I’d perfectly misunderstood. So when I want to get URL of //content/categories/film , and show it as 映画 on the website, what should I do? When you click taxonomy’s link, which is 映画 this...

What am I doing wrong or this is not possible with hugo at the moment?

Thanks.

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**Author:** ![benmarte](https://yyz2.discourse-cdn.com/flex036/user_avatar/discourse.gohugo.io/benmarte/32/5948_2.png) [@benmarte](https://discourse.gohugo.io/u/benmarte)\
**Post date:** [January 20, 2017, 5:37pm UTC](https://discourse.gohugo.io/t/solved-section-url-not-working/5192/2 "2017-01-20T17:37:40Z")

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Well after reading the docs this is not possible.

> **[Content Management](https://gohugo.io/content-management/)**
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> Hugo makes managing large static sites easy with support for archetypes, content types, menus, cross references, summaries, and more.

```
section

section is determined by its location on disk and cannot be specified in the front matter. See section.
```

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**Author:** ![regis](https://yyz2.discourse-cdn.com/flex036/user_avatar/discourse.gohugo.io/regis/32/4958_2.png) [@regis](https://discourse.gohugo.io/u/regis)\
**Post date:** [March 24, 2017, 2:47pm UTC](https://discourse.gohugo.io/t/solved-section-url-not-working/5192/3 "2017-03-24T14:47:00Z")

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Then I’m confused :

> Section pages can also have a content file and frontmatter, see Source Organization.

from [Content organization | Hugo](https://gohugo.io/content/sections/#section-lists)