I’m using so-called “ugly URLs” in Hugo to generate nice standard pages, with e.g. about.html, contact.html, and info.html pages. This gives me a clean, uncluttered file layout which is easy to navigate (no hundreds of folders just to contain different index.html files). On the web server, I’m usin…

In what context are you using: {{ ref . "about.md" }}

It was just an example, but {{ ref . "about.md" }} would be used in templates, and {{< ref "about.md" >}} would be used in content pages. The problem is that with uglyURLs=true, Hugo generates the link as “/about.html”. That would be the correct link, except I have URL rewriting on the server which…

If you enter the md file ones as standard markdown does Hugo honor uglyurls? Can you force it by using HTML a tags?

Sorry, but I’m not quite understanding what you mean. If I write the URL directly, either in plain text or HTML, then Hugo doesn’t change it. I can get it to work this way. But the problem then is that it becomes a maintenance nightmare if I have many pages. For example, if I move or rename a file, …

To achieve your desired setup in Hugo—generating files with ugly URLs (e.g., about.html) but linking them as pretty URLs (e.g., /about)—you can use the following approach: Solution: Custom relURL or absURL Usage Instead of using {{ ref . "about.md" }}, you can manually adjust the links like this: h…

Compatibility with URL rewriting?

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RickCogley February 28, 2018, 6:07am 6

Ok, I can see what you mean if you have a lot of pages and don’t want to hardcode. Sorry, just throwing ideas out there.

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Compatibility with URL rewriting?

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