Fix rendering breakage introduced in #665

[ramiro]

A bare bones setup of two pages and two posts gets broken because of a template change missed in #665

Fatal error message in readable form:

ERROR render:
failed to render pages:
render of "home" failed: "themes/ananke/layouts/index.html:48:23":
execute of template failed:
template:
index.html:48:23:
executing "main" at <.Site.GetPage>: can't evaluate field Site in type string

Steps to reproduce:

hugo new site quickstart
cd quickstart
git init
git submodule add https://github.com/theNewDynamic/gohugo-theme-ananke.git themes/ananke
echo "theme = 'ananke'" >> hugo.toml
echo -e "+++\ntitle='Home'\n+++\n\nMain page" > content/_index.md
echo Foo. > content/page1.md
echo Bar. > content/page2.md
mkdir -p content/post
echo "First post." > content/post/post1.md
echo "Second post." > content/post/post2.md
hugo server

Output:

Watching for changes in quickstart/{archetypes,assets,content,data,i18n,layouts,static,themes}
Watching for config changes in quickstart/hugo.toml, quickstart/themes/ananke/config.yaml
Start building sites …
hugo v0.125.3-474c4c02212cf97712c6fbf4159c68822ea6e078+extended darwin/amd64 BuildDate=2024-04-22T17:18:35Z VendorInfo=brew

Built in 67 ms
Error: error building site: render: failed to render pages: render of "home" failed: ".../quickstart/themes/ananke/layouts/index.html:48:23": execute of template failed: template: index.html:48:23: executing "main" at <.Site.GetPage>: can't evaluate field Site in type string

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[deining]

If you run a preview of the example site, you will encounter the same error.

[jmooring]

We just had the first report of this on the Hugo forum. Hugo's quick start guide currently instructs users to install Ananke, so they're going to run into a dead end.

I haven't reviewed this PR or #665, but in the short term I'd be inclined to simply revert f34c219436ab1c3b116f8706a521d40c4b8693b9.

[vlcinsky]

I can confirm, that this (very simple) PR fixed the issue. In my case, when I had 4 and more pages in a section, the generation was failing (as it attempts to do some "see all pages" etc.). This PR fixed the issue.

[oupala]

I can testify that this issue breaks the website rendering.

In the meantime, is there a way to statically set the version of the theme I use in order to fix the build?

[jmooring]

@oupala If you've added the theme to your Hugo project as a git submodule, you can:

cd themes/ananke/
git checkout 0d06863

[oupala]

@oupala If you've added the theme to your Hugo project as a git submodule, you can:

I don't think I have added the theme as a submodule

I'm using the following method to add the theme:

hugo mod get -u github.com/theNewDynamic/gohugo-theme-ananke

with a go.sum and a go.mod file

I think the go.mod file is referencing a specific version:

require github.com/theNewDynamic/gohugo-theme-ananke v0.0.0-20231122160523-91df000ca827 // indirect

[jmooring]

@oupala

hugo mod get -u github.com/theNewDynamic/gohugo-theme-ananke@0d06863

Your go.mod file should then look like:

require github.com/theNewDynamic/gohugo-theme-ananke v0.0.0-20240418152324-0d068637ccd8 // indirect

[oupala]

@jmooring It looks like this workaround does not work:

$ hugo mod get -u $THEME_URL
hugo: collected modules in 1467 ms
go: downloading github.com/theNewDynamic/gohugo-theme-ananke v0.0.0-20240418152630-f34c219436ab
go: upgraded github.com/theNewDynamic/gohugo-theme-ananke v0.0.0-20240418152324-0d068637ccd8 => v0.0.0-20240418152630-f34c219436ab

and I still get the same error in the build:

Error: error building site: render: failed to render pages: render of "home" failed: "/tmp/hugo_cache/modules/filecache/modules/pkg/mod/github.com/the!new!dynamic/[email protected]/layouts/index.html:48:23": execute of template failed: template: index.html:48:23: executing "main" at <.Site.GetPage>: can't evaluate field Site in type string

[ramiro]

@oupala please don't hijack this issue's comments for personalized support for deploying Hugo and its themes. All the other subscribers genuinely interested in the actual issue receive a notification with each post

[thesamrooney]

I ran into the same issue (sorry oupala not the same one you have) and independently found the same solution. This PR fixed the issue and is an easy win.

[regisphilibert]

Sorry about the delay. And thanks for the fix.