# Started getting: Failed to normalize URL string. Returning in =

**URL:** <https://discourse.gohugo.io/t/started-getting-failed-to-normalize-url-string-returning-in/5034>\
**Category:** support\
**Created:** [January 6, 2017, 2:41pm UTC](https://discourse.gohugo.io/t/started-getting-failed-to-normalize-url-string-returning-in/5034 "2017-01-06T14:41:58Z")\
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**Author:** ![bep](https://yyz2.discourse-cdn.com/flex036/user_avatar/discourse.gohugo.io/bep/32/3332_2.png) [@bep](https://discourse.gohugo.io/u/bep)\
**Post date:** [January 7, 2017, 10:53am UTC](https://discourse.gohugo.io/t/started-getting-failed-to-normalize-url-string-returning-in/5034/8 "2017-01-07T10:53:15Z")

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Note that if you don’t need the shiniest new Hugo features, doing something like this may give you a more stable build:

[https://github.com/bep/docuapi/blob/master/ci-install-hugo.sh](https://github.com/bep/docuapi/blob/master/ci-install-hugo.sh)

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