How to serve Hugo site?

[plorenzo (Pablo)]

Hello!

I’m trying to create a blog with Hugo and serve it with Caddy.

So far I managed to install Caddy and Hugo without problems, also I created the Hugo site with a test post but when I try to run caddy and go to the website it returns a Not Found error.

My Caddy file looks like this:

plorenzo.es {
    root /blog/public
}

Any clue why it’s not working?

[matt (Matt Holt)]

Hi Pablo –

When you do ls /blog/public what do you see?

[plorenzo (Pablo)]

I see:

~/blog/public$ ls
categories  help  index.xml  sitemap.xml  tags

[matt (Matt Holt)]

No, I mean, run this command exactly:

ls /blog/public

And you will see what I’m getting at.

[plorenzo (Pablo)]

oooh! my bad, sorry

I ment that my Caddyfile looks like this (I wrote it, instead of copying it…):

plorenzo.es {
    root ~/blog/public 
}

I also tried with the absolute path
/home/plorenzo/blog/public

I get 404 with both

[matt (Matt Holt)]

There you go. The tilde version won’t work in the Caddyfile because ~ is a bash expansion, not a Caddy one.

The absolute path works, but a 404 means there is no index file found. This page has the index files that are recognized by Caddy: Welcome — Caddy Documentation