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How do I serve a Hugo theme exampleSite?

I'm coming from using Jekyll as a Static Site Generator. Content and themes are normally kept in the same directory/git repo.

I'm trying to set up a Hugo site, using the bare-bones theme Hugo Xmin. It contains the standard directory exampleSite.

How can I serve the exampleSite with the theme using Hugo (locally)? after I:

git clone [email protected]:yihui/hugo-xmin.git
cd hugo-xmin
Solution

  • The one-line command is:

    hugo server --source exampleSite/ --themesDir ../..

    Alternatively, go into the exampleSite and serve with passing the parent directory as an argument:

    cd exampleSite
hugo server --themesDir ../..