Either /folder/index.html or /folder/other-file.html works but not both

[manake]

I have this:

• /content/folder/index.html
• /content/folder/other-file.html

Behavior:

• When I enter http://localhost:1313/folder/ it displays index.html.
• When I enter http://localhost:1313/folder/other-file/ it displays 404 page not found.

But when I make any change to other-file.html then this now happens:

• When I enter http://localhost:1313/folder/ it displays /layouts/_default/list.html (should be index.html)
• When I enter http://localhost:1313/folder/other-file/ it displays other-file.html

It's random and interchangeable. I don't see any logic or fix.

Hugo Static Site Generator v0.40.3 windows/amd64 BuildDate: 2018-05-09T07:47:04Z

[bep]

Thanks for getting in touch, but it feels like this is a question that would be better suited to the Hugo Discussion Forum. We prefer to use GitHub issues only for bugs and enhancements. Feel free to update this issue with a link to the re-posted question (so that other people can find it) or add some more details if you feel this is a genuine bug. You may also find the answers you search for in Hugo Documentation.

[manake]

How is this a question? Do you see any question marks there?

This is a bug report: there are 2 separate behaviors (listed above). There should be 1 behavior.

Yes, this is a "genuine bug report".

I see that you (counter-intuitively) decided to make /content/folder/index.html not overwrite /layouts/_default/list.html. I don't like it because I was expecting that index.html will be present at http://localhost:1313/folder/ but that's OK.

I feel like I already explained what's the problem sufficiently above. This is happening RANDOMLY so I can't provide any exact steps to reproduce this issue.

1. I do hugo -serve and (according to your documentation this should not ever happen but it happens):

• http://localhost:1313/folder/ displays index.html
• http://localhost:1313/folder/other-file/ displays 404 page not found

2. I do a modification to /content/other-file.html and suddenly something else happens (or not) (according to your documentation this is the correct behavior):

• http://localhost:1313/folder/ displays /layouts/_default/list.html
• http://localhost:1313/folder/other-file/ displays other-file.html

How often this happens?
All the time, this is a persistent issue that I managed to reproduce 100+ times with various files.

How to switch from BEHAVIOR 1 to BEHAVIOR 2 and from BEHAVIOR 2 to BEHAVIOR 1?
I don't know. It just happens at RANDOM.

• Just pressing Ctrl + C and restarting hugo -serve is sometimes enough (but usually not).
• Creating a new file somewhere or modifying an existing file is a more certain way to switch the behavior. E.g. I have /content/folder/abc.html and it's doing BEHAVIOR 1, I will modify 1 letter in abc.html and it's doing BEHAVIOR 2 already. Then I restart hugo and it's doing BEHAVIOR 1 or 2. It's random.

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