found no layout file for "HTML" for "home": You should create a template file which matches Hugo Layouts Lookup Rules for this combination.

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found no layout file for "HTML" for "home": You should create a template file which matches Hugo Layouts Lookup Rules for this combination.

tomny-codes opened this issue 5 years ago · 1 comments

on a new clean site, it gives this error when running hugo start using the example site

I copied examplesite files over to root with no changes

WARN 2019/08/09 02:09:40 found no layout file for "HTML" for "home": You should create a template file which matches Hugo Layouts Lookup Rules for this combination.

results in a blank white page when visiting localhost:1313

Answer 1 · 2019-09-20T17:14:53.000Z

Are you sure to run the hugo server command from the root folder? I did the mistake to run the command from within the themes folder, then I got the same error.