I am having a problem with my Hugo instance where the site views properly when running ‘hugo server’ locally and then breaks when I publish to my website. The break is that it looks like the css is not referenced properly. Navigation buttons are huge, the dark/light button does not toggle, and no …

Also, could it be my “deployment procedure”? I am running ‘hugo’ and then copying the ‘public’ directory content into my ‘blog33’ directory. So that when folks visit the blog33 directory in the browser URL they see the blog.

[image] eternallygeek: to do with my baseURL and the fact that I do n supposedly you are right in some way - if your site is published to a subfolder you will have to use the right templating to generate proper urls for the CSS. The exampleSite of the PaperMod has no problems with being gen…

Thanks. I meant to write the full url there but the link feature kept taking the text and making it a link. So, yes I do want the blog to be visible at… http://www.example.com/blog33

When we go to deploy, should all the files to upload come from the ‘public’ directory? i.e. just uploading that directory should work, correct?

if the html content is generated properly. fe the src/href attributes. check the dev tools in your browser where it tries to find the css and adjust. if you need further assitance you will have to provide a replayable example

Thank you. I will get onto getting the instance code into a repo. In the meantime I tried switching the theme to ‘hugo-paper’ and it does work after being uploaded to the website. So it could be something with the ‘PaperMod’ theme or missing some extra configuration to it.

[image] eternallygeek: or missing some extra configuration to i definitely something like that one. As stated before the themes exampleSite works in a subfolder.

Thanks to @irkode for help thus far! After finding that ‘hugo-paper’ theme worked and ‘PaperMod’ did not, I found something via searching the PaperMod theme GH page… Issue with Hugo not building the css That little fix there, adding a config setting for the params/assets/disableFingerprinting, d…

found that one updated the link to Papermod repo [image] FAQs A fast, clean, responsive Hugo theme. Contribute to adityatelange/hugo-PaperMod development by creating an account on GitHub.

Trouble with hugo uploaded and not in root?

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irkode August 13, 2025, 7:45pm 4

You have to view the content of the generated site using a browser. Opening the html file from the filesystem won’t work.

IF you really want a serverless site have a look at Crafting and configuring a "serverless" site

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