Why is Hugo serving blank pages?

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maximusdooku picture maximusdooku · Apr 22, 2017 · Viewed 11.6k times · Source

I am building a personal website using Hugo Static Page Generator, but when I do hugo serve, I am no longer seeing a page, but simply a blank page at localhost:1313.

I deleted everything and did a fresh install. But still, Hugo is serving blank pages.

In the blank page, I see the Favicon of the previous site draft I had, even though I deleted everything from the previous theme. I cleared the browser in Chrome and tried a different browser too, but it's still not working.

Not sure what information I can provide, as there are no error messages. How can I fix this?

Answer

jediz picture jediz · Apr 29, 2017

The problem is likely to be the theme - it is either missing or broken. Hugo does not come with any default/fallback theme if you fail to provide a working one.

Debugging guide:

  1. Check the themes folder, and follow the quickstart.
  2. Try using another, simpler theme.
  3. It may only be a question of configuring the theme, you may read the hugo theme documentation too.

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