---
title: "Switching to Hugo"
linkTitle: "Switching to Hugo"
date: 2019-12-19
description: >
  I switched my personal wiki from dokuwiki to Hugo
---

This is the website you are currently reading. It is a static website built using hugo. This article details how I installed hugo, how I initialised this website and how I manage it. I often refer to it as wiki.adyxax.org because I hosted a unique dokuwiki for a long time as my main website (and a pmwiki before that), but with hugo it has become more than that. It is now a mix of wiki, blog and showcase of my work and interests.

## Installing hugo

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go get github.com/gohugoio/hugo
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You probably won't encounter this issue but this command failed at the time I installed hugo because the master branch in one of the dependencies was
tainted. I fixed it with by using a stable tag for this project and continue installing hugo from there:
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cd go/src/github.com/tdewolff/minify/
tig --all
git checkout v2.6.1
go get github.com/gohugoio/hugo
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This did not build me the extended version of hugo that I need for the [docsy](https://github.com/google/docsy) theme I chose, so I had to get it by doing :
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cd ~/go/src/github.com/gohugoio/hugo/
go get --tags extended
go install --tags extended
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## Bootstraping this site

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hugo new site www
cd www
git init
git submodule add https://github.com/google/docsy themes/docsy
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The docsy theme requires two nodejs programs to run :
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npm install -D --save autoprefixer
npm install -D --save postcss-cli
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## hugo commands

To spin up the live server for automatic rebuilding the website when writing articles :
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hugo server --bind 0.0.0.0 --minify --disableFastRender
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To publish the website in the `public` folder :
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hugo --minify
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