Hugo Tips: Part 2

I only have 3 tips this time, but they are important:

1. Always always always remember to run env HUGO_ENV="production" hugo (or the equivalent on your system) rather than just plain hugo. It is possible that running hugo will write the files in development mode, which puts NOCRAWL, NOINDEX tags on every page. These tags will prevent search engines from crawling your site. For Windows, it should be set HUGO_ENV=production.

2. If you have your site hosted on AWS (like me!), the AWS command line is by far the simplest way to get everything uploaded to the s3 bucket.

   aws s3 sync . s3://my-bucket/ --acl public-read

   This command will upload only the changed files and replace the outdated version on s3.

3. A related point: always verify the public permissions for the site!

Sources:

• Hugo Environment Variables
• How to set environment variables in Hugo
• Using High-Level (s3) Commands with the AWS CLI