---
title: "Stupid Problems"
date: 2019-12-07T13:14:03+01:00
draft: false

featured_image: /images/stupid.jpg

tags:
- hugo
- webserver
- apache

categories: 
- Tech
---


The beauty of a static website is course its simplicity: you don't have to deal with SQL servers, rights-management yada yada.

The problem with resurrecting your old webhosting site is, of course, legacy.

In this particular case stupidity and legacy. I transferred the static generated Hugo page to my webspace and the designated `/www` directory, which was, supposedly, completely empty. The problem: the site wouldn't serve. Unless I specifically addressed the sites `index.html`. 

Why? The folder wasn't empty. There was still a old `.htaccess` file lurking around. And this file specified the landing as "index.php", which does not exist. I don't even recall what exactly I was experimenting with years ago, but likely some variant of Wordpress.

Easy fix, once it was identified though: delete the file and done.