Howto Deploy Hugo to Netlify
I wanted my site to be available under the following names: andrew.molyuk.com and molyuk.com, and I couldn’t achieve this on GitHub Pages. So, I decided to use Netlify. As it turned out, deploying Hugo on Netlify is very simple. In this post, I’ll tell you how I did it.
First, we need to create an account on Netlify. After that, we need to create a new site. Click on the “Add a new site” button and follow the instructions. Basically, that’s all we need to do on Netlify to make the site publicly available.
Additionally, I adjusted the build command so that Netlify could build my site. Now it looks like this:
To make my site available under the names andrew.molyuk.com and molyuk.com, I needed to configure DNS records. I logged into my GoDaddy account and added the corresponding DNS records. Here’s what it looked like:
Then I added and verified the domains on Netlify. As a result, it turned out like this:
That’s it - now my site is available at the addresses: andrew.molyuk.com and molyuk.com, and I can publish new posts without worrying about how to deploy them.
There’s a small detail I’d like to mention. When I built my site on Netlify, I found that my local version of Hugo
differed from the one used on Netlify. This led to build failures. I solved this problem by adding an environment
variable HUGO_VERSION to the Netlify settings and specifying the Hugo version number in its value. In my case, it was
version 0.111.3. Now my build works both on my local machine and on Netlify.
n addition to everything else, Netlify provides a build status badge that can be placed in the README.md file.
[](https://app.netlify.com/sites/molyuk/deploys)
Conclusion
I hope this post will help you deploy your site on Netlify. If you have any questions, please feel free to ask me. Thanks for reading!