Getting Local Setup Up

1. Getting local setup in place

  • Clone the master branch of this Blog repo maintained in gitlab
  • Install Hugo
  • Reference link for validating below steps as per latest release of Hugo for Linux
$ mkdir .hugoportable && cd .hugoportable
$ wget https://github.com/gohugoio/hugo/releases/download/v0.104.0/hugo_extended_0.104.0_linux-amd64.tar.gz 
$ tar -xvf hugo_extended_0.104.0_linux-amd64.tar.gz 
$ ./hugo version

for Windows (with Git bash)

$ mkdir .hugoportable && cd .hugoportable
$ wget https://github.com/gohugoio/hugo/releases/download/v0.104.0/hugo_extended_0.104.0_windows-amd64.zip
$ ./hugo.exe version

2. Initializing Themes

Necessary themes used in this Hugo project can be placed using below commands.

$ mkdir themes
$ git clone https://github.com/matcornic/hugo-theme-learn.git -b master themes/learn

3. Starting and Accessing Hugo Server

  • Start the server locally for Linux
$ ./.hugoportable/hugo server --bind 0.0.0.0

for Windows (with Git bash)

$ ./.hugoportable/hugo.exe server --bind 0.0.0.0

Proceed with next page in this book Basic Understanding and Expectation of this Project