I'm trying to learn to use Hugo by building a simple site. I've followed Hugo and Opalstack advice to set up a Hugo site (with Apache-Nginx stack). The site is live, but I can't get themes to work. Current attempt: hyde theme. I've tried placing the files in the themes/hyde directory (within my hugo site directory, e.g. ~/mysite, serving an app theoretically called my_site, installed/served (?) at ~/apps/my_site.
I've also tried using the git submodule and git clone methods I've seen in multiple help pages online. After each attempt, I see the files in the themes/ directory in their own directories, I make sure to add theme = "[theme directory name]" line to hugo.toml in ~/mysite (i.e., site root directory). I finally run hugo server -d ~/apps/my_site and I don' t see any errors... but nothing happens. The site is bare HTML with no styling at all.
I'm not sure what I'm doing wrong, so I hope someone has suggestions. Are there nginx or other settings I'm not using? Do I just need a github repo and... IDK, put the entire site there, then publish it to Opalstack as a second step?After reading a few dozen Hugo theme help sites I'm still not sure if I need to have a separate github repo involved in some way just to use Hugo themes. However, I suspect this is not the (only?) problem, because when I use FileZilla to transfer the unzipped files to the correct theme folder from my PC the result is the same: no theme effects.
Any help or pointers to help documents will be much appreciated. If I can provide more information I'll be happy to.
For OpalStack folks, in case it helps, here is where to find the actual data in my account/directory:
site directory: ~/bssucks/
app directory: ~/apps/bs_sucks
(It's a petty, silly site, but you have to start somewhere)
