--- aliases: - /doc/configuration/ date: 2013-07-01 linktitle: Configuration menu: main: parent: getting started next: /overview/source-directory notoc: true prev: /overview/usage title: Configuring Hugo weight: 40 --- The directory structure and templates provide the majority of the configuration for a site. In fact, a config file isn't even needed for many websites since the defaults follow commonly used patterns. Hugo expects to find the config file in the root of the source directory and will look there first for a `config.toml` file. If none is present, it will then look for a `config.yaml` file, followed by a `config.json` file. The config file is a site-wide config. The config file provides directions to hugo on how to build the site as well as site-wide parameters and menus. ## Examples The following is an example of a typical yaml config file: --- baseurl: "http://yoursite.example.com/" ... The following is an example of a toml config file with some of the default values. Values under `[params]` will populate the `.Site.Params` variable for use in templates: contentdir = "content" layoutdir = "layouts" publishdir = "public" builddrafts = false baseurl = "http://yoursite.example.com/" canonifyurls = true [taxonomies] category = "categories" tag = "tags" [params] description = "Tesla's Awesome Hugo Site" author = "Nikola Tesla" Here is a yaml configuration file which sets a few more options --- baseurl: "http://yoursite.example.com/" title: "Yoyodyne Widget Blogging" footnotereturnlinkcontents: "↩" permalinks: post: /:year/:month/:title/ params: Subtitle: "Spinning the cogs in the widgets" AuthorName: "John Doe" GitHubUser: "spf13" ListOfFoo: - "foo1" - "foo2" SidebarRecentLimit: 5 ... ## Configuration variables Following is a list of Hugo-defined variables that you can configure and their current default values: --- archetypedir: "archetype" # hostname (and path) to the root eg. http://spf13.com/ baseURL: "" # include content marked as draft buildDrafts: false # include content with publishdate in the future buildFuture: false # enable this to make all relative URLs relative to content root. Note that this does not affect absolute URLs. relativeURLs: false canonifyURLs: false # config file (default is path/config.yaml|json|toml) config: "config.toml" contentdir: "content" dataDir: "data" defaultExtension: "html" defaultLayout: "post" # filesystem path to write files to destination: "" disableLiveReload: false # Do not build RSS files disableRSS: false # Do not build Sitemap file disableSitemap: false # edit new content with this editor, if provided editor: "" footnoteAnchorPrefix: "" footnoteReturnLinkContents: "" languageCode: "" layoutdir: "layouts" # Enable Logging log: false # Log File path (if set, logging enabled automatically) logFile: "" # "yaml", "toml", "json" metaDataFormat: "toml" newContentEditor: "" # Don't sync modification time of files noTimes: false paginate: 10 paginatePath: "page" permalinks: # Pluralize titles in lists using inflect pluralizeListTitles: true publishdir: "public" # color-codes for highlighting derived from this style pygmentsStyle: "monokai" # true: use pygments-css or false: color-codes directly pygmentsUseClasses: false sitemap: "" # filesystem path to read files relative from source: "" staticdir: "static" # display memory and timing of different steps of the program stepAnalysis: false # theme to use (located in /themes/THEMENAME/) theme: "" title: "" # if true, use /filename.html instead of /filename/ uglyURLs: false # verbose output verbose: false # verbose logging verboseLog: false # watch filesystem for changes and recreate as needed watch: false --- ## Ignore files on build The following inside `config.toml` will ignore files ending with `.foo` and `.boo` when building with `hugo`. ``` ignoreFiles = [ "\\.foo$", "\\.boo$" ] ``` The above is is a list of Reqular Expressions, but note the escaping of the `\` to make TOML happy. ## Configure Blackfriday rendering [Blackfriday](https://github.com/russross/blackfriday) is the [Markdown](http://daringfireball.net/projects/markdown/) rendering engine used in Hugo. The Blackfriday configuration in Hugo is mostly a set of sane defaults that should fit most use cases. But Hugo does expose some options---as listed in the table below, matched with the corresponding flag in the Blackfriday source ([html.go](https://github.com/russross/blackfriday/blob/master/html.go) and [markdown.go](https://github.com/russross/blackfriday/blob/master/markdown.go)):
FlagDefaultBlackfriday flag
angledQuotes false HTML_SMARTYPANTS_ANGLED_QUOTES
Purpose: Enable smart angled double quotes (e.g. "Hugo" renders to «Hugo» instead of “Hugo”)
fractions true HTML_SMARTYPANTS_FRACTIONS
Purpose: Enable smart fractions (e.g. 5/12 renders to 5⁄12 (<sup>5</sup>&frasl;<sub>12</sub>)) Caveat: Even with fractions = false, Blackfriday would still convert 1/2, 1/4 and 3/4 to ½ (&frac12;), ¼ (&frac14;) and ¾ (&frac34;) respectively, but only these three.
hrefTargetBlank false HTML_HREF_TARGET_BLANK
Purpose: Open external links in a new window/tab.
latexDashes true HTML_SMARTYPANTS_LATEX_DASHES
Purpose: Disable LaTeX style dashes.
plainIdAnchors false FootnoteAnchorPrefix and HeaderIDSuffix
Purpose: If true, then header and footnote IDs are generated without the document ID (e.g. #my-header instead of #my-header:bec3ed8ba720b9073ab75abcf3ba5d97)
extensions [] EXTENSION_*
Purpose: Use non-default additional extensions (e.g. Add "hardLineBreak" to use EXTENSION_HARD_LINE_BREAK)
extensionsmask [] EXTENSION_*
Purpose: Extensions in this option won't be loaded. (e.g. Add "autoHeaderIds" to disable EXTENSION_AUTO_HEADER_IDS)
**Note** that these flags must be grouped under the `blackfriday` key and can be set on **both site and page level**. If set on page, it will override the site setting. Example:
TOMLYAML 
[blackfriday]
  angledQuotes = true
  fractions = false
  plainIdAnchors = true
  extensions = ["hardLineBreak"]

blackfriday:
  angledQuotes: true
  fractions: false
  plainIdAnchors: true
  extensions:
    - hardLineBreak
## Notes Config changes are not reflected with [LiveReload](/extras/livereload/). Please restart `hugo server --watch` whenever you make a config change.