Dynamic url structure in front matter

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1

Morning.

Is it possible to define a url in front matter. For e.g

/blog/
  -- _index.md
  -- post.md

in post.md to have front matter such as

---
title: "Posts"
description: "Past post"
date: 2022-05-05T13:00:00Z
draft: false
aliases:
  - /post/:year/:month/:day
  - /post/**
---

I know aliases is not the correct place for this definition - but is there similar keyword available - if possible. I looked at cascade, but dont think its what I need.

so im trying to setup rules so that any url matching /post/[year]/[month]/[day] format would be picked up by post.md. Not too worried about the content in post.md rendering this will just output placeholder HTML for the moment.

Thanks in advance
Gearoid

3

you can define an page url in frontmatter - this overwrites (IMHO) the permalink definition

want to config the path for all posts ? set permalinks

more to aliases here

Don’t know if you can use “:” items here (:year etc) - but you can look if what hugo creates

you can customize the alias files

HTH

4

Thanks for getting back @ju52 , but not sure that will handle any url with said pattern? AFAIK with alias’s you need to, for want of a better term, hardcode the path, but I dont know the path in advance I just know it will be of a certain pattern.

5

for all posts you can set this in your config file, I use this (toml format)

[permalinks]
    post   = "/:section/:year/:month/:day/:title"
6

Was trying this - but does rely on you actually having a physical file at the end of the url? I am trying to map the above structure to just one file >> post.md under my blog folder

7

YES, this will store all generated files for the post section under this path.

For a single file you must set the alias in frontmatter.
IF :year/:month … does not work, open an issue as suggestion in github.

8

Think there is a mis-communication here. I want the url pattern to work POST build with hugo files deployed to web server.

9

@gearoidc

Wildcard aliases are not supported. You need to handle this with redirects/rewrites on your server/host.

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