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title: "Configuring Hugo"
date: "2013-07-01"
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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:
contentdir = "content"
layoutdir = "layouts"
publishdir = "public"
builddrafts = false
baseurl = "http://yoursite.example.com/"
canonifyurls = true
[indexes]
category = "categories"
tag = "tags"
Here is a yaml configuration file which sets a few more options
---
baseurl: "http://yoursite.example.com/"
title: "Yoyodyne Widget Blogging"
permalinks:
post: /:year/:month/:title/
params:
Subtitle: "Spinning the cogs in the widgets"
AuthorName: "John Doe"
GitHubUser: "spf13"
ListOfFoo:
- "foo1"
- "foo2"
SidebarRecentLimit: 5
...