"Blog" link links to same page (doesn't display posts)

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I converted my content and I noticed on the home page “Blog” links to itself (https://domain.com/folder) so the “content” pane remains empty when I click on “Blog”.

Why doesn’t it link to https://domain.com/folder/_posts to show a list of posts? Or is something else wrong?

$ cat config.toml
BaseURL = "https://domain.com/folder"
languageCode = "en-us"
theme = "hyde-x"
$ hugo version
Hugo Static Site Generator v0.14 BuildDate: 2015-05-25T18:29:16-07:00

My temp workaround was to change public/index.html to add _posts to the blog link.

      <li class="sidebar-nav-item"><a href="https://domain.com/folder/_posts">Blog</a></li>

I don’t know if this is a good idea or not, but that lets me click on Blog and see a list of my posts.

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Not sure what yo mean by “links to itself” – all the links are in the templates and all up to you (Hugo helps out with some helper methods etc., but do not confuse BaseURL with a link).

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By that I mean it links to the “home page”, i.e. my BaseURL folder is domain.com/folder and the Blog (“Posts”) link on the home page domain.com/folder/index.html links to domain.com/folder/index.html (itself).

So when I click on it, it doesn’t do anything. I manually modified domain.com/folder/index.html to link to domain.com/folder/_posts/, so now when I click on the “Blog” link on home page, the right hand pane shows blog posts.

I think it may be a problem with the theme. I’ll try another theme to see if I get the same result.

Edit: okay, I tried with hugo-uno and with that “Blog” links to #blog which instead of taking me (I expect) to domain.com/folder/#blog, it directs me to domain.com (Error 404).
If I manually paste domain.com/folder#blog to navigation bar in the browser, that does expose blog archive in the right hand pane.

Maybe it’s something about Google Drive because it’s URLs aren’t fixed (e.g. www.googledrive.com/host redirects to garbage-www.googledrive.com/host and so on). But I don’t understand why these links aren’t relative to BaseURL, wouldn’t that cause fewer problems? For example, in hugo-uno:

       <ul class="navigation">
                            <li class="navigation__item"><a href="/#blog" title="link to blog" class="blog-button">Blog</a> </li>
                            </br>  </ul>

I tried cannonical URLs, with that “Blog” exposes the right hand pane, but then “Archive” links to domain.com/folder/post which leads to 404. I’m (temporarily) giving up!

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Did some more digging:

  • I found that different themes have different bugs (and more than one - I should have expected that, but…), so troubleshooting by changing something in your config file and trying a different theme at the same time may produce unexpected outcomes
  • It seems I ran into this issue https://github.com/spf13/hugo/issues/811