Issue when baseurl have subdirectory

Hi all,

My baseurl is something like: some.uni.edu/~pdas/ . It seems when the baseurl have subdirectory, then the internal links are not rendered correctly. When the site is created using hugo command then the /~pdas part is omitted by all the internal URLs. As a result the internal links along with the images are not rendered correctly.

Is this a bug related to Hugo or it have something to do with the theme? I am using academic.

For example please see this post: http://www.ece.ucr.edu/~pdas/post/benchmarking-vasp-in-xsede/. Here the image URL are missing the ~pdas part of the URL. As a result the post is not showing the images correctly. My version is: Hugo Static Site Generator v0.16 BuildDate: 2016-06-06T05:33:33-07:00.

Can you give us the command that you use to build your site, please?

I tried both hugo and hugo --theme=academic. The output is same.

It turned out to be a Hugo bug for no rooted websites… Will wait for it to be resolved in next version.

In the meantime I have solved the issue by setting both relativeURLS and canonifyurls to true.

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This is very similar to what I experience. I’m testing some hugo sites using a deploy script which substitutes the baseurl in the config.toml to have it sit under something like http://test.example.org/SITE/ and in production it runs (e.g.) under http://site.org/

I’m using the HugoMDL theme and what breaks is at least the cardthumbimage and cardheaderimage, which are by default under /images/cardthumbimage.png or something similar.
If this would be rendered as baseurl+/images/cardthumbimage.png it would turn out ok, but as it is, it’s always /images/cardthumbimage.png

Is this the same bug?

As far as I understand you need a truely portable Website.
To test this you may start it from the local file system/public folder without the use of hugo server. If successful it should work anywhere, also in your server subdirectory.

To get this see this discussion: https://discuss.gohugo.io/t/could-not-get-relativeurls-to-work-with-site-baseurl/5301/9
But be prepared to do changes in the theme as explained there.

@Protik_Das any news about the fix? (you wrote that the issue will be in a next version).

I’m using 0.32.2 version of hugo (with ananke theme) and the problem still exists. The option canonifyURLs solves the problem, but as it is not a default (and suggested) setting, I’m wondering if something related to this issue is still happaning.

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Use the following config to solve this problem.

RelativeURLs=true
CanonifyURLs=true