$GOPATH/go.mod exists but should not

[joseph.p...@gmail.com]

I found (what I think is) a simple GO project to play with as a learning exercise:

       https://intersog.com/blog/how-to-write-a-custom-url-shortener-using-golang-and-redis/

The second step fails immediately. with the aforementioned error message.

I'm using GO version 1.15.6

$GOPATH is undefined.

Here's the content of ~/go

Joes-iMac:go joe$ pwd

/Users/joe/go

Joes-iMac:go joe$ ls

bin go.mod pkg src

Joes-iMac:go joe$ more go.mod

module urlShorter

go 1.15

[eof]

So, I googled for the error message. I find lots of hits, but no clear explanation of why the error message, but most importantly, no clear explanation of how to fix...

Help please!

Thanks,

Joe

[Rick]

I'm not entirely following what you are doing. But here are some comments. You have a directory $HOME/go, the contents of which look like what you would see under $GOPATH. If you are going to create a project under $HOME/go (whether GOPATH is defined or not), the suggested place to put it is in $HOME/go/src/urlShortener or perhaps $HOME/go/src/github.com/yourID/urlShortener. Having said that, using the same version of Go I am able to do the following without error:

unset GOPATH

cd /tmp

mkdir urlShortener

cd urlShortener

go mod init urlShortener

go get github.com/fasthttp/router

etc...

Works for me.

[JOE MCGUCKIN]

OK,  I was doing everything in the ~/go directory. I assumed that 'go get’ would create the appropriate directories under go/src.

I have not followed your example yet, but I suspect that’s my problem.

Thanks!

Joe

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