The purpose of this article is to help beginners understand how to do the advanced install of hugo static site generator (SSG).

Introduction

In the previous articles I wrote them under the assumption that the user was for MacOS or Linux, but what about Windows? If you are a Windows user then this article is for you!

Instructions

Go to the following link and download the latest version of Golang programming language. When this article was written we installed version 1.15.2.
Once you download the file, install the executable and you’ll have Golang ready on your system.
Go the following link and download the latest version of Git. When this article was written we installed version 2.28.0.
Once you download the file, install the executable and you’ll have Git ready on your system.
Click Start in the menu and search for the keyword Git Bash, once you find it please click on the application.
You should see the terminal loaded up.

Before we install hugo, we will need to setup our go local environment:

cd ~/
mkdir go
cd go
mkdir bin
mkdir pkg
mkdir src
cd src
mkdir github.com

Let’s install hugo via this command:

cd ~/go/src/github.com/
mkdir gohugoio
cd gohugoio
git clone https://github.com/gohugoio/hugo.git
cd hugo
go install

Confirm our hugo application has been installed:
```
$GOPATH/bin/hugo
```
Once confirmed you are ready to continue! The next few sections we will create the folder of our GitHub username, my username is “bartmika” so I am writing with it, please use your own username and follow along:
```
cd ~/go/src/github.com
mkdir bartmika
cd bartmika
```
Create our site. My recommendation is use the format “your-domain” + “-hugo” were “your-domain” is the name of your website and “-hugo” indicates this is a hugo project. Please note, my website domain is bartlomiejmika.com so I will be writing with “bartlomiejmika-hugo” with the following:
```
$GOPATH/bin/hugo new site bartlomiejmika-hugo
cd bartlomiejmika-hugo
```

Create your first post.

$GOPATH/bin/hugo new posts/hello-world.md

Copy the contents from this sample post file into your file located at content/posts/hello-world.md.
Let’s confirm our site works by running the hugo server command which will generate the site and run it. Please note everytime you make a change in your any file the hugo server will hotreload the site with your latest content. Also note the -D flag enables draft articles which you are writing to be displayed on the site:
```
hugo server -D
```
Open your browsers and visit http://localhost:1313/ to view your site. If something appears then congratulations you have setup your site! The next step is you’ll need to look through the project and spend time customizing it.

Thank you for reading, if you want to learn how create a website with a beautiful theme then please another article I’ve written titled “How to Start a Personal Blog With Hugo a Static Site Generator Written in Go”.

Before I finish, I’d like to say if you like the open source hugo project please add a star to show your support and if you really appreciate it then please consider sponsoring.

How to Install Hugo From Git Bash for Window Users

Learn how to build and install Hugo from source code

Introduction

Instructions

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