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Deploy app with Hugo site in a subdirectory

Posted November 9, 2020 723 views
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When deploying a Hugo site as a DigitalOcean app, is there a way to get it working if the hugo site is not at the root of the repository? I have a “site” directory with the hugo site along with other directories at the root.

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kamaln7 November 9, 2020

Hi @hdlopes, this option is currently supported by the app specification, but not the web control panel so you will need to make this change using either doctl or the API.

On your hugo component, set the source_dir option to the name of the subdirectory that your Hugo site lives in. It will then be used as the working directory for the build.

For example:

...
static_sites:
  - name: hugo
    source_dir: website
    ...

See the App Specification reference.

To make this change using doctl, follow these steps:

  1. Install doctl
  2. List your apps and find your app’s UUID: doctl apps list
  3. Save your app’s spec to a file: doctl apps spec get APP-UUID > app.yaml
  4. Open app.yaml in a text editor and add the source_dir property.
  5. Update your app with the new spec: doctl apps update --spec app.yaml APP-UUID. This will kick off a new deployment
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  • hdlopes November 18, 2020

    Thank you @kamaln7!

    The only caveat is that I had to make a workaround commit with the Hugo’s config file on the repository root, so that the “Create App” process could accept it as a Hugo static site.

    After having the app generated on DO all the steps worked fine.

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  • leoWhale January 7, 2021

    What about the case when the app hasn’t been deployed yet and the APP-UUID is not available

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    • kamaln7 January 7, 2021

      Hi @leoWhale, you can use this app spec as reference for a Hugo site:

      name: hugo
static_sites:
- name: hugo
  build_command: hugo -d public
  environment_slug: hugo
  source_dir: website
  github:
    repo: digitalocean/sample-hugo
    branch: main
    deploy_on_push: true
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