Hugo on Codeanywhere Cloud IDE

Publish date: May 25, 2022
Last updated: Feb 9, 2023

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Get Started

To get started, sign up and create a new container on Codeanywhere.

Install Go

Most of the commands for Hugo Modules require a newer version of Go installed (see https://golang.org/dl/) and the relevant VCS client (e.g. Git, see https://git-scm.com/downloads/ ).

Make sure Go is installed and available in the container using the following command:

$ go version

Install Hugo Extended

First download the binary into a temp folder:

$ wget -P /tmp/ https://github.com/gohugoio/hugo/releases/download/v0.99.1/hugo_extended_0.99.1_Linux-64bit.deb

Now you can extract the content and install:

$ sudo dpkg -i /tmp/hugo_extended_0.99.1_Linux-64bit.deb

From the container, type hugo version in the terminal. You should see something similar to this appear, which means Hugo has been properly installed:

$ hugo v0.99.1-d524067382e60ce2a2248c3133a1b3af206b6ef1+extended linux/amd64 BuildDate=2022-05-18T11:18:14Z VendorInfo=gohugoio

You can find all releases of Hugo on the official github repo:

https://github.com/gohugoio/hugo/releases

Add Site

Create a new site or clone your existing site Github repository.

Preview Site

Run $ hugo server.

Open preview.

To preview your site manually, replace [container name] with your container name.

https://port-1313-[container name].preview.codeanywhere.com/

Sample:

My container link is: https://ide.codeanywhere.com/tedm-hxz97459500903/#/home/cabox/workspace which means the container name is tedm-hxz97459500903. The preview site link will be:

https://port-1313-tedm-hxz97459500903.preview.codeanywhere.com/