1. No server side extensions are needed. It's a static website.
So, why exactly can't you generate static html?
Most web browsers don't render modern static websites with AJAX, accessibility, mobile rendering, semantic search etc from file:// for security reasons. The problem is in the web browser, not in the site. If you're super adverse to running Hugo, the Python 2 program below will serve a static website onto localhost for you. Taken from https://docs.python.org/2/library/simplehttpserver.html: ``` import SimpleHTTPServer import SocketServer PORT = 8000 Handler = SimpleHTTPServer.SimpleHTTPRequestHandler httpd = SocketServer.TCPServer(("", PORT), Handler) print "serving at port", PORT httpd.serve_forever() ``` Start using: python -m SimpleHTTPServer 8000 Niall -- ned Productions Limited Consulting http://www.nedproductions.biz/ http://ie.linkedin.com/in/nialldouglas/