/r/Selfhosted Official Wiki

This is the home of the full site source for the Hugo project that hosts the /r/selfhosted official wiki.

Contributing

You'll need to submit a pull request in order to submit content. If you just want to edit a typo or add a small correction to an existing document, feel free to edit it directly using the Github web-based edit function. Otherwise, refer to the local machine setup instructions below.

Community

Check out /r/selfhosted for the full details of what we represent and do.

Local Machine Setup

Installing Hugo

Since we are using Hugo, getting your local site up and running is fairly simple.

OS Independent

Since Hugo is cross-platform, and OS choice is far from uniform in this community, I won't go into how to get Hugo functioning on your OS of choice. Follow the Getting Started. It's not difficult.

Once you can successfully get a version number from the command hugo version, you're ready to continue here.

Fork and Clone Operations

First thing you'll want to do is Fork the Github Repository for the /r/selfhosted wiki. You'll be working within a repo that syncs with your own accounts' fork of the repository.

Since we use a theme that has its own Github Repository, there is an extra flag we must add to our git clone command.

First, clone the forked repo into your local machine. the "recurse-submodules" flag should allow you to automatically pull in the git repo for the theme, as well.

git clone --recurse-submodules https://github.com/{YOUR_USER_NAME}/wiki.git -- Be sure to modify this url to match your actual username and git repository name.
Move to the directory that was just cloned and make sure the themes/hugo-theme-learn/ folder has content.

cd wiki && ls themes/hugo-theme-learn
Once confirmed, copy the example config.toml file. Unless you're doing some abstract hosting environment for your local developement machine, this should work as-is.

cp config.toml.example config.toml
Run the server locally with the Hugo's server command

hugo serve

You should see some output about the success/launch of the local server, similar to below:

$ hugo serve
  Start building sites …

                     | EN  
  -------------------+-----
    Pages            | 22  
    Paginator pages  |  0  
    Non-page files   |  0  
    Static files     | 75  
    Processed images |  0  
    Aliases          |  0  
    Sitemaps         |  1  
    Cleaned          |  0  

  Built in 84 ms
  Watching for changes in /home/kmisterk/wiki/{archetypes,content,data,layouts,static,themes}
  Watching for config changes in /home/kmisterk/wiki/config.toml
  Environment: "development"
  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/ (bind address 127.0.0.1)
  Press Ctrl+C to stop

Navigate your browser to http://localhost:1313 and you should see the site live on your local machine.

You're now ready to start adding and/or editing content.