Unable to locate Config file

[jarrywangcn]

1. first i have installed hugo with brew, it seems going well

~ which hugo /usr/local/bin/hugo ➜ ~ ls -l $(which hugo) lrwxr-xr-x 1 jarrywang admin 28 Dec 8 12:32 /usr/local/bin/hugo -> ../Cellar/hugo/0.17/bin/hugo ➜ ~ hugo version Hugo Static Site Generator v0.17 BuildDate: 2016-10-07T22:42:05+08:00

2. then i create a new site

`hugo new site journal
Congratulations! Your new Hugo site is created in “/Users/mac/journal”.
Just a few more steps and you’re ready to go:

1. Download a theme into the same-named folder.
   Choose a theme from https://themes.gohugo.io/, or
   create your own with the "hugo new theme " command.

2. Perhaps you want to add some content. You can add single files
   with “hugo new /.”.

3. Start the built-in live server via “hugo server”.`

4. i install a themes and want to create a new content
   with command-line
   hugo new about.md

the result is
Error: Unable to locate Config file. Perhaps you need to create a new site. Runhugo help newfor details. (Unsupported Config Type "")
and there are no new files in archetypes and content

please help me, thx

[michael_henderson]

Hi and welcome! You just need to change to the root of your site with a cd command and you should be good to go:

$ hugo new site journal
Congratulations! Your new Hugo site is created in /tmp/journal.

Just a few more steps and you're ready to go:

1. Download a theme into the same-named folder.
   Choose a theme from https://themes.gohugo.io/, or
   create your own with the "hugo new theme <THEMENAME>" command.
2. Perhaps you want to add some content. You can add single files
   with "hugo new <SECTIONNAME>/<FILENAME>.<FORMAT>".
3. Start the built-in live server via "hugo server".

Visit https://gohugo.io/ for quickstart guide and full documentation.

# the new site command created a directory called "journal"
# go there and you can run the server...

$ cd journal

$ hugo server
Started building sites ...
=============================================================
Your rendered home page is blank: /index.html is zero-length
 * Did you specify a theme on the command-line or in your
   "config.toml" file?  (Current theme: "")
 * For more debugging information, run "hugo -v"
=============================================================
Built site for language en:
0 draft content
0 future content
0 expired content
0 regular pages created
1 other pages created
0 non-page files copied
0 paginator pages created
0 tags created
0 categories created
total in 5 ms
Watching for changes in /tmp/journal/{data,content,layouts,static}
Serving pages from memory
Web Server is available at http://localhost:1313/ (bind address 127.0.0.1)
Press Ctrl+C to stop
^C

[jarrywangcn]

thx a lot ! i have created the file successfully!

[michael_henderson]

Congratulations! There’s a lot of documentation on the site. A lot of questions are answered there (and many more here in the forums). Please feel free to ask questions if you come across something else that you don’t understand.

[zacharybk]

The other time that I encountered this issue was when I was running the command hugo server -D from the wrong folder. Check your working directory.

[Olaof]

The solution is to run the “new” command at the root of your app and then locate to the path of your folder like this if you create a new file in content:

hugo new ./content/nameofyourfile.extension