# Build Websites with Hugo: hugo 0.86 not working with examples after Chapter 2

**URL:** <https://forum.devtalk.com/t/build-websites-with-hugo-hugo-0-86-not-working-with-examples-after-chapter-2/13792>\
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**Created:** [19 July 2021 14:32 UTC](https://forum.devtalk.com/t/build-websites-with-hugo-hugo-0-86-not-working-with-examples-after-chapter-2/13792 "2021-07-19T14:32:25Z")\
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**Author:** ![yam655](https://forum.devtalk.com/user_avatar/forum.devtalk.com/yam655/32/3113_2.png) [@yam655](https://forum.devtalk.com/u/yam655)\
**Post date:** [19 July 2021 14:32 UTC](https://forum.devtalk.com/t/build-websites-with-hugo-hugo-0-86-not-working-with-examples-after-chapter-2/13792/1 "2021-07-19T14:32:25Z")

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I bought the book to help familiarize myself with Hugo.

The examples in Chapter 1 worked fine.

I know it isn’t my Hugo installation, as I can run both official as well as theme-specific starters.

Starting in Chapter 2, the samples don’t work and I just get a blank page.

I thought, “I probably mistyped something.” So, I downloaded the source archive. But the source archive has the same problem.

I wondered, “Do some of the later examples work?” Since they were all in the archive, I didn’t need to wait until I got there in the book.

It turns out, some of them give different results. Most of them seem to do nothing – the same problem I was having – but at least two of them generate failure messages.

This is disappointing, to say the least.

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**Author:** ![bphogan](https://forum.devtalk.com/user_avatar/forum.devtalk.com/bphogan/32/756_2.png) [@bphogan](https://forum.devtalk.com/u/bphogan)\
**Post date:** [19 July 2021 17:33 UTC](https://forum.devtalk.com/t/build-websites-with-hugo-hugo-0-86-not-working-with-examples-after-chapter-2/13792/2 "2021-07-19T17:33:00Z")

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Hi @yam655 - have you had a look at [Build Websites with Hugo: Code in chapter two won't run - #5 by SnowyMountainWeb](https://forum.devtalk.com/t/build-websites-with-hugo-code-in-chapter-two-wont-run/6324/5) ?

Hugo templates seem to very aggressively hate comments, and so if you’re using the code from the code archives, it may not work. If you get a blank screen, it’s almost certainly that - a comment in the code. I’ve been trying to figure out a way to publish an updated zip file.

But also, does the site you’ve built work with the version of Hugo specified in the first chapter?

Let me know how I can help. In the meantime, I’ll go back through chapter 2 myself just to see if anything is up.

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**Author:** ![edskinner](https://forum.devtalk.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/e/eb9ed0/32.png) [@edskinner](https://forum.devtalk.com/u/edskinner)\
**Post date:** [31 May 2023 15:52 UTC](https://forum.devtalk.com/t/build-websites-with-hugo-hugo-0-86-not-working-with-examples-after-chapter-2/13792/3 "2023-05-31T15:52:28Z")

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Still true in 2023 for HTML comments “”  
No matter where such a comment appears, Hugo is apparently terrified and it walks silently away from generating anything. All I get is empty output.  
Very annoying for those of us who still use comments.

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**Author:** ![bphogan](https://forum.devtalk.com/user_avatar/forum.devtalk.com/bphogan/32/756_2.png) [@bphogan](https://forum.devtalk.com/u/bphogan)\
**Post date:** [24 November 2024 22:34 UTC](https://forum.devtalk.com/t/build-websites-with-hugo-hugo-0-86-not-working-with-examples-after-chapter-2/13792/4 "2024-11-24T22:34:34Z")

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You want

{{/\* comments here \*/}}

The HTML templates are Go templates, so you have to do comments that way.