# "Error: Failed to render section" when running "zola serve"
**URL:** https://zola.discourse.group/t/error-failed-to-render-section-when-running-zola-serve/842
**Category:** Support
**Created:** [March 25, 2021, 1:19pm UTC](https://zola.discourse.group/t/error-failed-to-render-section-when-running-zola-serve/842 "2021-03-25T13:19:31Z")
**Posts on this page:** 6
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### Author:  [@anon41748152](https://zola.discourse.group/u/anon41748152)
#### Post date: [March 25, 2021, 1:19pm UTC](https://zola.discourse.group/t/error-failed-to-render-section-when-running-zola-serve/842/1 "2021-03-25T13:19:31Z")
Hi,
I am completely new to Zola and just now ran into a problem with a site we are running with Zola.
The Site-structure looks just like this:
Now, as soon as I run zola build or zola serve it starts creating the pages.
But then I see an Error-Message like this (folder names are following the Screenshot example):
```
Error: Failed to render section '/content/site/version1_index.md'
Reason: Failed to render 'section.html' (error happened in a parent template)
Reason: Function call 'get_section' failed
Reason: Section `/content/_index.md` not found.
```
The thing is, /content/\_index.md exists and has the following content:
```
+++
render=false
+++
```
So now I have absolutely no clue where to start as I couldn’t find anything while googling and stuff…
I would highly appreciate any help and if you need further information I’ll hand them to you 🙂
Many Greetings!
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### Author:  [@Roman](https://zola.discourse.group/u/Roman)
#### Post date: [March 25, 2021, 2:58pm UTC](https://zola.discourse.group/t/error-failed-to-render-section-when-running-zola-serve/842/2 "2021-03-25T14:58:08Z")
sorry if I got you wrong, but in your case `render=false` doesn’t matter, for your index.html folder `site` will be section and folders `version1` and `version2` will be subsection. Looks like you try to execute `get_section` and here is nothing to get. Do you have your project on github\gitlab?
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### Author:  [@Ky2X1j8Tkrh](https://zola.discourse.group/u/Ky2X1j8Tkrh)
#### Post date: [March 26, 2021, 12:53am UTC](https://zola.discourse.group/t/error-failed-to-render-section-when-running-zola-serve/842/3 "2021-03-26T00:53:07Z")
> [@anon41748152](#):
>
> `Reason: Section `/content/\_index.md` not found.`
as the error says, you may don’t have the file “\_index.md” under the folder “content”. You HAVE to put a file named “\_index.md” to let the zola know it as a section.
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### Author:  [@anon41748152](https://zola.discourse.group/u/anon41748152)
#### Post date: [March 26, 2021, 8:14am UTC](https://zola.discourse.group/t/error-failed-to-render-section-when-running-zola-serve/842/4 "2021-03-26T08:14:18Z")
Hi,
thats the main problem. There is a \_index.md file inside the content/ folder. Thats why I just don’t understand the origin of the problem.
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### Author:  [@anon41748152](https://zola.discourse.group/u/anon41748152)
#### Post date: [March 26, 2021, 8:16am UTC](https://zola.discourse.group/t/error-failed-to-render-section-when-running-zola-serve/842/5 "2021-03-26T08:16:33Z")
Hey,
as far as I know, we use the “render=false” content because we only want our subsections to be shown and not the parent section which would be the content/ folder. I didn’t want to imply that the content of this file is wrong, just wanted to make clear that we have such file.
I cannot give you any GitHub as this is a private project in our company so I can’t leak information to you.
If you need any additional information just let me know and I’ll see what I can provide.
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### Author:  [@Roman](https://zola.discourse.group/u/Roman)
#### Post date: [March 26, 2021, 9:13am UTC](https://zola.discourse.group/t/error-failed-to-render-section-when-running-zola-serve/842/6 "2021-03-26T09:13:54Z")
looks like you need transparent mode, instead of `render=false` . Take a look to some Zola’s themes, it might be useful. or, tell a little bit more about your website structure, 'cause I can’t understand what you want to get exactly