# Getting started with a custom deployment solution

Hugo offers many solutions for hosting and deploying a website.

## About this task

If you want to deploy your portal using another solution than the ones mentioned above, see the [Hosting & Deployment](https://gohugo.io/hosting-and-deployment/) section in the Hugo documentation.

To get started, you can generate your portal locally.

## Procedure

1. Install Hugo using the [Hugo documentation](https://gohugo.io/getting-started/installing/).
2. Clone you API Portal repository on your machine.
3. Open a command line at the root of the repository and run the hugo server command.

## Results

Your portal is running locally and you can visit it with the web server provided. ![This console indicates the web server. In this example, it is available at //localhost:1313/.](https://help.qlik.com/talend/en-US/api-portal-deployment-guide/Resources/images/custom_deployment_local.png)