How To Install hugo-mx-gateway on Debian 12
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install hugo-mx-gateway on Debian 12.
What is hugo-mx-gateway
hugo-mx-gateway is:
hugo-mx-gateway provides a RESTful POST endpoint for static contact/demo request pages. It’s a simple, yet a powerful tool built for this only-designated purpose, e.g. for use with static sites built using Hugo.
hugo-mx-gateway is built upon a simple request handling workflow:
- Create an HTML form with a POST action pointing towards the hugo-mx- gateway service.
- For each user request, hugo-mx-gateway automatically retrieves information submitted by the user (email, subject, message details…), then generates and sends a templated email (based on Go Template to the user-provided email address, while bcc’ing a copy of that email to an address that you can define for internal tracking and follow up.
- Once a request is processed (upon success or failure), hugo-mx-gateway handles the reply back towards the calling static page by redirecting the browser to the origin page with additional URL parameters describing the completion status of the processing (e.g. /contact.html?status=success&message=request%20submitted). The parameters can then be easily retrieved and shown to the user, e.g. with a few lines of Javascript within the static page.
There are three methods to install hugo-mx-gateway on Debian 12. We can use apt-get, apt and aptitude. In the following sections we will describe each method. You can choose one of them.
Install hugo-mx-gateway Using apt-get
Update apt database with apt-get using the following command.
sudo apt-get update
After updating apt database, We can install hugo-mx-gateway using apt-get by running the following command:
sudo apt-get -y install hugo-mx-gateway
Install hugo-mx-gateway Using apt
Update apt database with apt using the following command.
sudo apt update
After updating apt database, We can install hugo-mx-gateway using apt by running the following command:
sudo apt -y install hugo-mx-gateway
Install hugo-mx-gateway Using aptitude
If you want to follow this method, you might need to install aptitude first since aptitude is usually not installed by default on Debian. Update apt database with aptitude using the following command.
sudo aptitude update
After updating apt database, We can install hugo-mx-gateway using aptitude by running the following command:
sudo aptitude -y install hugo-mx-gateway
How To Uninstall hugo-mx-gateway on Debian 12
To uninstall only the hugo-mx-gateway package we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get remove hugo-mx-gateway
Uninstall hugo-mx-gateway And Its Dependencies
To uninstall hugo-mx-gateway and its dependencies that are no longer needed by Debian 12, we can use the command below:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove hugo-mx-gateway
Remove hugo-mx-gateway Configurations and Data
To remove hugo-mx-gateway configuration and data from Debian 12 we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y purge hugo-mx-gateway
Remove hugo-mx-gateway configuration, data, and all of its dependencies
We can use the following command to remove hugo-mx-gateway configurations, data and all of its dependencies, we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge hugo-mx-gateway
Dependencies
hugo-mx-gateway have the following dependencies:
References
Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install hugo-mx-gateway package on Debian 12 using different package management tools: apt, apt-get and aptitude.
