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+---
+title: "Welcome to My New Hugo Site!"
+date: {{ .Date }}
+draft: false
+---
+
+This is the homepage of your new Hugo site.
+
+You can start adding content here.
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+baseURL = "http://example.org/"
+languageCode = "en-us"
+title = "My New Hugo Site"
+theme = "" # You can specify a theme here later
+
+[params]
+  description = "A cool new website built with Hugo and deployed on Coolify!"
+
+# Default publish directory is 'public', which is what Coolify expects for static sites.
+# No need to explicitly set publishDir = "public" unless you change it.