All posts redirecting to home

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Looks like my hugo blog is messed up. All posts are getting redirected to the home page (baseof.html that is). Tried a whole bunch of things to no avail.

Do you know of any known reasons (as usual mistakes one would make) for the above undesired behavior?

Thanks :pray:

2

If you need help, you should post more information. Preferably a link to your repository. And make sure baseUrl in your configuration points to the correct URL.

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Honestly, I was trying to extract a small repo/sample from my original repo which unfortunately is a private one in the org. The sample did not have the problem. I thought this was a common mistake people make unknowingly.

Let me give it another try to create a sample repo demonstrating the problem.

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@chrillek I managed to strip down to the bare minimum and have created a sample that demonstrates the problem. I think I have included other essential parts in the repo.

Steps I followed:

hugo new site sample
cd sample
hugo new theme clean

# Changed hugo.toml to hugo.yml. But it is still hugo.toml under ...sample/themes/clean.
# Update hugo.yml with `theme=clean`

hugo --cleanDestinationDir && hugo server
  • When you click on the blog link under the title on the page, you will see that it redirects to the same page even though it is linked to /posts.
  • I see that the content generated in the public/ folder for all pages have the content of the home page.

Obviously, I am missing something. Something is not interconnected right. My brain is frozen trying out different yet same set of things.

Any help is highly appreciated. :pray:

5

As I said: fix your baseURL in the configuration. It points to a bogus domain. Make it point to your base URL. This question is btw raised here at least once a week…

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I am running this on my laptop (not in the cloud). Would it matter still? What would I update the baseURL to work on my machine (and in the cloud)? I understand it will be our domain name when running in the cloud. Not sure what it should be for running on my machine.

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Your baseof.html template does not execute the others (home, single, and list).

See https://gohugo.io/functions/go-template/block/.

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Yes … because the home page is the landing page with links (say blog, github etc.); like this:

<div class="home-content">
    <div id="title">Acme Knowledge Base</div>
    <div id="links">
      <a href="/posts">blog</a>
      <a href="https://github.com/johndoe">github</a>
      <a rel="me" href="https://mastodon.social/@johndoe">mastodon</a>
      <a href="/about/">about</a>
    </div>

I was expecting when I click on blog link above, it would take me to a page with posts (using the list.html layout). It is working so in another of our repos. This repo I am working stopped working (not sure exactly when)

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Your expectations are incorrect. That’s not how the base/block construct works.