How to Serve Your Hugo Site on Alpine Linux and Bind It to 0.0.0.0

To serve your Hugo site on Alpine Linux and bind it to the IP address 0.0.0.0, follow these steps:

1. Install Required Dependencies

sudo apk add curl git

2. Download Hugo

HUGO_VERSION=0.143.1
TEMP=$(mktemp -d)
wget -O "${TEMP}/hugo.tar.gz" "https://github.com/gohugoio/hugo/releases/download/v${HUGO_VERSION}/hugo_extended_${HUGO_VERSION}_linux-amd64.tar.gz"

3. Extract and Install Hugo

sudo tar -xf "${TEMP}/hugo.tar.gz" -C /usr/bin
sudo apk add --update libc6-compat libstdc++

4. Verify Installation

hugo version

5. Build Your Hugo Site

Navigate to your Hugo site’s directory and run:

hugo

This will generate your static site files in the public/ directory.

6. Serve Hugo Site

Run the Hugo server and bind it to 0.0.0.0:

hugo server --bind=0.0.0.0 --baseURL=http://0.0.0.0:1313

7. Open Firewall Ports

Ensure that the necessary ports (usually port 1313) are open on your server’s firewall to allow external access:

sudo iptables -A INPUT -p tcp --dport 1313 -j ACCEPT
sudo iptables -A OUTPUT -p tcp --sport 1313 -j ACCEPT
sudo /etc/init.d/iptables save
sudo rc-update add iptables
sudo service iptables start

8. Access Your Hugo Site

You should now be able to access your Hugo site externally by navigating to http://<your-server-ip>:1313 in a web browser.

This setup will allow you to serve your Hugo site on Alpine Linux and make it accessible externally.

Chuck Norris Joke: When Chuck Norris serves a Hugo site, the server doesn’t bind to an IP. The IP binds to the server out of respect.

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