www/content/blog/hugo/switching-to-hugo.md

title	date	description	tags
Switching to Hugo	2019-12-19	I switched my personal wiki from dokuwiki to Hugo	hugo

Introduction

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

{{< highlight sh >}} go get github.com/gohugoio/hugo {{< / highlight >}}

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: {{< highlight sh >}} cd go/src/github.com/tdewolff/minify/ tig --all git checkout v2.6.1 go get github.com/gohugoio/hugo {{< / highlight >}}

This did not build me the extended version of hugo that I need for the docsy theme I chose, so I had to get it by doing : {{< highlight sh >}} cd ~/go/src/github.com/gohugoio/hugo/ go get --tags extended go install --tags extended {{< / highlight >}}

Bootstraping this site

{{< highlight sh >}} hugo new site www cd www git init git submodule add https://github.com/google/docsy themes/docsy {{< / highlight >}}

The docsy theme requires two nodejs programs to run : {{< highlight sh >}} npm install -D --save autoprefixer npm install -D --save postcss-cli {{< / highlight >}}

hugo commands

To spin up the live server for automatic rebuilding the website when writing articles : {{< highlight sh >}} hugo server --bind 0.0.0.0 --minify --disableFastRender {{< / highlight >}}

To publish the website in the public folder : {{< highlight sh >}} hugo --minify {{< / highlight >}}