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author: "Michael Henderson"
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lastmod: 2016-02-10
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date: 2015-03-30
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linktitle: Installing on Windows
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parent: tutorials
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next: /tutorials/mathjax
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title: Installing on Windows
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weight: 10
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---
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# Installing Hugo on Windows
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This tutorial aims to be a complete guide to installing Hugo on your Windows computer.
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## Assumptions
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1. We'll call your website `example.com` for the purpose of this tutorial.
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2. You will use `C:\Hugo\Sites` as the starting point for your site.
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3. You will use `C:\Hugo\bin` to store executable files.
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## Setup Your Directories
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You'll need a place to store the Hugo executable, your content (the files that you build), and the generated files (the HTML that Hugo builds for you).
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1. Open Windows Explorer.
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2. Create a new folder: `C:\Hugo` (assuming you want Hugo on your C drive – it can go anywhere.)
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3. Create a subfolder in the Hugo folder: `C:\Hugo\bin`.
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4. Create another subfolder in Hugo: `C:\Hugo\Sites`.
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## Technical users
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1. Download the latest zipped Hugo executable from the [Hugo Releases](https://github.com/spf13/hugo/releases) page.
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2. Extract all contents to your `..\Hugo\bin` folder.
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3. You'll probably want to rename the Hugo executable to something short like `hugo.exe`.
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4. In Powershell or your preferred CLI, add the `hugo.exe` executable to your PATH by navigating to `C:\Hugo\bin` (or the location of your hugo.exe file) and use the command `set PATH=%PATH%;C:\Hugo\bin`. If the `hugo` command does not work after a reboot, you may have to run the command prompt as administrator.
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## Less technical users
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1. Go the [Hugo Releases](https://github.com/spf13/hugo/releases) page.
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2. The latest release is announced on top. Scroll to the bottom of the release announcement to see the downloads. They're all ZIP files.
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3. Find the Windows files near the bottom (they're in alphabetical order, so Windows is last) – download either the 32-bit or 64-bit file depending on whether you have 32-bit or 64-bit Windows. (If you don't know, [see here](https://esupport.trendmicro.com/en-us/home/pages/technical-support/1038680.aspx).)
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4. Move the ZIP file into your `C:\Hugo\bin` folder.
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5. Double-click on the ZIP file and extract its contents. Be sure to extract the contents into the same `C:\Hugo\bin` folder – Windows will do this by default unless you tell it to extract somewhere else.
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6. You should now have three new files: an .exe file, license.md, and readme.md. (you can delete the ZIP download now.)
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7. Rename the .exe file to `hugo.exe`.
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8. Now add Hugo to your Windows PATH settings:
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#### For Windows 10 users:
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- Right click on the **Start** button
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- Click on **System**
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- Click on **Advanced System Settings** on the left
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- Click on the **Environment Variables** button on the bottom
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- In the User variables section, find the row that starts with PATH (PATH will be all caps)
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- Double-click on **PATH**
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- Click the **New** button.
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- Type in Hugo's path, which is `C:\Hugo\bin\hugo.exe` if you went by the instructions above. Press Enter when you're done typing.
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- Click OK at every window to exit.
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(Note that the path editor in Windows 10 was added in the large [November 2015 Update](https://blogs.windows.com/windowsexperience/2015/11/12/first-major-update-for-windows-10-available-today/). You'll need to have that or a later update installed for the above steps to work. You can see what Windows 10 build you have by going to Start--> Settings--> About. See [here](http://www.howtogeek.com/236195/how-to-find-out-which-build-and-version-of-windows-10-you-have/) for more.)
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Windows 7 and 8.1 do not include an easy path editor, so non-technical users on those platforms are advised to install a free third-party path editor like [Windows Environment Variables Editor](http://eveditor.com/) or [Path Editor](https://patheditor2.codeplex.com/).
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## Verify the executable
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Run a few commands to verify that the executable is ready to run and then build a sample site to get started.
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1. Open a command prompt window.
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2. At the prompt, type `hugo help` and press the Enter key. You should see output that starts with:
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{{< nohighlight >}}A Fast and Flexible Static Site Generator built with love by spf13 and friends in Go. Complete documentation is available at http://gohugo.io
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{{< /nohighlight >}}
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If you do, then the installation is complete. If you don't, double-check the path that you placed the `hugo.exe` file in and that you typed that path correctly when you added it to your PATH variable. If you're still not getting the output, post a note on the Hugo discussion list (in the `Support` topic) with your command and the output.
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3. At the prompt, change your directory to the `Sites` directory.
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{{< nohighlight >}}C:\Program Files> cd C:\Hugo\Sites
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C:\Hugo\Sites>
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{{< /nohighlight >}}
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4. Run the command to generate a new site. I'm using `example.com` as the name of the site.
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{{< nohighlight >}}C:\Hugo\Sites> hugo new site example.com
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{{< /nohighlight >}}
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5. You should now have a directory at `C:\Hugo\Sites\example.com`. Change into that directory and list the contents. You should get output similar to the following:
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{{< nohighlight >}}C:\Hugo\Sites>cd example.com
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C:\Hugo\Sites\example.com>dir
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Directory of C:\hugo\sites\example.com
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04/13/2015 10:44 PM <DIR> .
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04/13/2015 10:44 PM <DIR> ..
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04/13/2015 10:44 PM <DIR> archetypes
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04/13/2015 10:44 PM 83 config.toml
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04/13/2015 10:44 PM <DIR> content
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04/13/2015 10:44 PM <DIR> data
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04/13/2015 10:44 PM <DIR> layouts
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04/13/2015 10:44 PM <DIR> static
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1 File(s) 83 bytes
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7 Dir(s) 6,273,331,200 bytes free
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{{< /nohighlight >}}
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You now have Hugo installed and a site to work with. You need to add a layout (or theme), then create some content. Go to http://gohugo.io/overview/quickstart/ for steps on doing that.
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## Troubleshooting
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@dhersam has created a nice video on common issues:
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{{< youtube c8fJIRNChmU >}}
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