Migrating from other tools

Pico CMS

Content migrates directly. Copy your Pico content/ files to the docroot and rename Title: to title: and Description: to subtitle: in front matter. Replace Pico theme templates with a lazysite/themes/default/view.tt file. One-liner to convert front matter keys across all files: find public_html -name "*.md" | xargs sed -i 's/^Title:/title:/;s/^Description:/subtitle:/'

Hugo

Content files require no changes - Hugo and lazysite use the same front matter format. What needs replacing is the template system: view.tt replaces your Hugo baseof.html or equivalent base template.

Troubleshooting

Run the processor manually

The most direct way to diagnose a page error:

REDIRECT_URL=/about \
DOCUMENT_ROOT=/home/username/web/example.com/public_html \
  perl /home/username/web/example.com/cgi-bin/lazysite-processor.pl

Prints full HTML output or Perl errors to the terminal. Adjust REDIRECT_URL to the failing page path.

Check the error log

tail -50 /home/username/web/example.com/logs/example.com.error.log

End of script output before headers

The script crashed before printing anything. Run the processor manually to see the Perl error.

lazysite: Cannot write cache file ... Fix with: chmod g+ws

The web server cannot write the generated .html to the docroot. Pages render correctly but are not cached. Fix with:

chown ispadmin:www-data /home/username/web/example.com/public_html
chmod g+ws /home/username/web/example.com/public_html

Registries not generating

Registries only generate when a page is rendered - not on cached serves. If missing, delete the registry file and force a page render:

rm public_html/llms.txt
rm public_html/index.html
curl -s https://example.com/ > /dev/null