A simple hugo boilerplate showing some of Hugo's functionality.

• Download latest release and unzip into your working directory.
• Rename the folder as you want.
• Navigate to this folder in your command line (PowerShell in Windows, Terminal in macOS or Linux).
• Run hugo server.
• Hugo should return several messages (see code below). There is an address that allows opening the website in your browser: below it's http://localhost:1313/hugo-start/.

$ hugo server

                   | EN  
+------------------+----+
  Pages            | 21  
  Paginator pages  |  0  
  Non-page files   |  0  
  Static files     |  2  
  Processed images |  0  
  Aliases          |  0  
  Sitemaps         |  1  
  Cleaned          |  0  

Total in 30 ms
Watching for changes in /Users/<username>/Projects/start/{content,data,layouts,static}
Serving pages from memory
Running in Fast Render Mode. For full rebuilds on change: hugo server --disableFastRender
Web Server is available at http://localhost:1313/hugo-start/ (bind address 127.0.0.1)
Press Ctrl+C to stop

When adding small changes, do not commit anything from /docs folder. Push changes in docs only after some milestone, preferably by a single user, so that merge conflicts do not make work with the repository difficult.

Generally, built files are not to be commited exactly for this reason — but in this case, they're useful to generate a Github Sites based website.

• When running hugo new, this error is shown: Unable to locate Config file. Perhaps you need to create a new site. You're in a wrong folder.
• When running any comman, this error is shown: command not found: hugo. Hugo is not installed correctly. Either reinstall Hugo or check whether you typed it correctly.