baseURL not updating to hugo.toml value

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Hi, Hugo and SSG newbie here. I’m working on a portfolio site for myself using Hugo and Github Pages. Unfortunately, when I deploy it live, the links in my nav bar are all broken. They still point to http://localhost:1313/ instead of the baseUrl in my hugo.toml file.

I found this existing thread on the topic. But running hugo on its own didn’t seem to resolve it.

Here’s my hugo.toml file.

baseURL = 'https://quan-h-vu.github.io/'
languageCode = 'en-us'
title = 'Quan H. Vu'
theme = 'gokarna'
[menus]
	[[menus.main]]
		name = 'Home'
		pageRef = '/'
		weight = 10
	[[menus.main]]
		name = 'Samples'
		pageRef = '/samples'
		weight = 20
	[[menus.main]]
		name = 'Posts'
		pageRef = '/posts'
		weight = 30

Here’s the partial header.html controlling my top nav bar. This was taken from the Gokarna theme.

<header class="header">
    <nav class="header-nav">

        {{ if isset .Site.Params "avatarurl" }}
        <div class="avatar">
            <a href="{{ .Site.BaseURL }}">
                <img src='{{ .Scratch.Get "avatarImgSrc" }}' alt="{{ .Site.Params.AvatarAltText|default "avatar" }}">
            </a>
        </div>
        {{ end }}

        <div class="nav-title">
            <a class="nav-brand" href="{{ .Site.BaseURL }}">{{ .Site.Title }}</a>
        </div>

        <div class="nav-links">
            {{ range .Site.Menus.main }}
            <div class="nav-link">
                <a href="{{ .URL | absURL }}" aria-label="{{ .Identifier }}" {{ if .Params.NewPage -}}target="_blank" {{- end -}}>
                    {{- .Pre | safeHTML }} {{ .Name }} {{ .Post | safeHTML -}}
                </a>
            </div>
            {{ end }}

            <span class="nav-icons-divider"></span>
            <div class="nav-link dark-theme-toggle">
                <span class="sr-only dark-theme-toggle-screen-reader-target">theme</span>
                <a aria-hidden="true" role="switch">
                    <span class="theme-toggle-icon" data-feather="moon"></span>
                </a>
            </div>

            <div class="nav-link" id="hamburger-menu-toggle">
                <span class="sr-only hamburger-menu-toggle-screen-reader-target">menu</span>
                <a aria-checked="false" aria-labelledby="hamburger-menu-toggle" id="hamburger-menu-toggle-target" role="switch">
                    <span data-feather="menu"></span>
                </a>
            </div>

            <!-- For mobile -->
            <ul class="nav-hamburger-list visibility-hidden">
                {{ range .Site.Menus.main }}
                <li class="nav-item">
                    <a href="{{ .URL | absURL }}" {{ if .Params.NewPage -}} target="_blank"{{- end -}}>
                        {{- .Pre | safeHTML }} {{ .Name }} {{ .Post | safeHTML -}}
                    </a>
                </li>
                {{ end }}
                <li class="nav-item dark-theme-toggle">
                    <span class="sr-only dark-theme-toggle-screen-reader-target">theme</span>
                    <a role="switch">
                        <span class="theme-toggle-icon" data-feather="moon"></span>
                    </a>
                </li>
            </ul>

        </div>
    </nav>
</header>
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Whether you run hugo or hugo server, files are published to the public directory. It sounds like you’re pushing your public directory from local to remote.

I suggest you share a link to your repo.

3

Thanks for the help. Here’s my repo: GitHub - quan-h-vu/quan-h-vu.github.io

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1) Create a .gitignore file

touch .gitignore

2) Add the following to the file you just created

.hugo_build.lock
/public/
/resources/

3) Remove the public directory from source control, commit your changes, and push to origin:

git rm -rf public/
git add -A
git commit -m "Remove public directory from source control"
git push

4) Search your Markdown files for draft = true and change them to draft = false. Commit your changes and push again.

Also, you might want to bump the Hugo version in your workflow file to 0.145.0 (optional).

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Thanks for all the help, worked like a charm!

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