This was my first time setting up a blog on GitLab and it was a very easy process. I’m using Hugo and there are some straight-forward instructions for creating a bare-bones site and deploying it to a project: Hosting Hugo on GitLab I did run into one problem though that I wanted to share with the inter-tubes. When I first pushed my one-post-blog project to test, I wasn’t able to see anything and I just got back the GitLab 404 page.