# Unable to generate cloned hugo Website

**URL:** <https://discourse.gohugo.io/t/unable-to-generate-cloned-hugo-website/10569>\
**Category:** support\
**Created:** [February 15, 2018, 10:14pm UTC](https://discourse.gohugo.io/t/unable-to-generate-cloned-hugo-website/10569 "2018-02-15T22:14:58Z")\
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**Author:** ![0pendev](https://yyz2.discourse-cdn.com/flex036/user_avatar/discourse.gohugo.io/0pendev/32/5271_2.png) [@0pendev](https://discourse.gohugo.io/u/0pendev)\
**Post date:** [February 15, 2018, 10:14pm UTC](https://discourse.gohugo.io/t/unable-to-generate-cloned-hugo-website/10569/1 "2018-02-15T22:14:58Z")

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Hi,

I’ve got a hugo website. Everything is great and working well.  
I’ve put it in a git repository.  
When I clone the repository, I got all of the files right but hugo won’t generate the website.

Does anyone had the same issue ?

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**Author:** ![Jura](https://yyz2.discourse-cdn.com/flex036/user_avatar/discourse.gohugo.io/jura/32/13581_2.png) [@Jura](https://discourse.gohugo.io/u/Jura)\
**Post date:** [February 16, 2018, 6:25am UTC](https://discourse.gohugo.io/t/unable-to-generate-cloned-hugo-website/10569/2 "2018-02-16T06:25:28Z")

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If you got the source of a Hugo website, you can generate it anywhere you want.

I feel like there’s some information missing from your post so that people like me can help out with your situation. Can you take a look at the [requesting help suggestions](https://discourse.gohugo.io/t/requesting-help/9132)? That thread contains useful information that helps us help you. 🙂 Especially knowing the actions you performed and gave a different result that you expected would help.

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**Author:** ![0pendev](https://yyz2.discourse-cdn.com/flex036/user_avatar/discourse.gohugo.io/0pendev/32/5271_2.png) [@0pendev](https://discourse.gohugo.io/u/0pendev)\
**Post date:** [February 20, 2018, 7:14am UTC](https://discourse.gohugo.io/t/unable-to-generate-cloned-hugo-website/10569/3 "2018-02-20T07:14:17Z")

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Hi,  
In fact it was not an issue with Hugo but with git (I forgot to initialize a submodule).

Sorry