main.go:119: load templates: open templates: no such file or directory

[ghost]

After following guide, I get:

$ writefreely -c config.ini 
2020/01/06 22:21:54 Starting WriteFreely ...
2020/01/06 22:21:54 Loading config.ini configuration...
2020/01/06 22:21:54 Loading templates...
ERROR: 2020/01/06 22:21:54 main.go:119: load templates: open templates: no such file or directory

[thebaer]

Hi @somenxavier, are you running writefreely from the same directory where you have the templates directory? (And keys and static, etc.)

[ghost]

I just run what is written in Getting Started:

1. writefreely --config
2. writefreely --gen-keys
3. writefreely

I choose sqlite3

[thebaer]

Great, which directory are you in? It should contain a templates folder.

If it doesn't, you'll want to change into the folder where you put WriteFreely.

[thebaer]

Closing this now since this is likely isn't a bug. But please feel free to continue commenting here.

[maphew]

This can happen when running on a system which alerady has writefreely executable installed and you're not installing from scratch, e.g. a shared host.

Go to the releases page and download the closest match, and extract the directories into where you want to run WF from. Freebsd example:

Download the latest release for MacOS. It probably doesn't matter which system though as we're just after the templates and other resources.

cd ~/../protected
wget https://github.com/writefreely/writefreely/releases/download/v0.14.0/writefreely_0.14.0_macos_amd64.tar.gz
tar -xzvf writefreely_0.14.0_macos_amd64.tar.gz
cd writefreely

# delete the MacOS executable
rm ./writefreely

Carry on with config start and key generation.
You'll probably also need to make the keys folder readable by the Web user.

chgrp web keys keys/*
chmod g+r keys keys/*