The news about GitHub Pages being backed by GitHub Actions exited me a lot. Since it’s GAed with the custom workflow last week, I’m once again migrating this blog from Jyekyll to Hugo and deploying it using GitHub Actions.
Migration was pretty straightforward. I re-learned Hugo by reading the docs (and was impressed by its design again!), did some search and replace :bufdo :%s///g on Vim to convert Jekyll tags to Hugo tags, rewrote one shortcode, made some minor updates to permalinks and asset paths etc.
One thing I had to spend some time to come up with the solution was redirecting the old RSS feed. With Jekyll the feed URL was feed.xml whereas with Hugo it’s index.xml. Hugo’s aliases doesn’t support redirecting these files, so I end up creating the feed.xml file in the static directory:
<redirect>
<newLocation>
https://lowply.github.io/index.xml
</newLocation>
</redirect>
ref. How to Redirect an RSS Feed