Enabling uglyURLs for the home page

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.Root.Site.Home.Permalink with uglyurls = true is not so ugly.

For content/post/_index.md, its permalink ends with post.html
On the other hand.Root.Site.Home.Permalink looks like ../...( does not end with index.html)

Some themes, such as hugo-geekdoc, use .Root.Site.Home.Permalink in the layout to navigate to the root page.
However with file: access, .Root.Site.Home.Permalink links to directory listing, not a root page.

Is there a good way to get an ‘ugly’ link to the root page?

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This is a known issue:
https://github.com/gohugoio/hugo/issues/7497

For anyone stumbling across this, Root is not a method on anything. It’s a construct of the hugo-geekdoc theme:

{{ partial "site-header" (dict "Root" . "MenuEnabled" $navEnabled) }}

Capitalizing the first letter isn’t a great idea.

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I see this is duplicated and still open issue.

As a workaround, hope to add ’index.html’ when in uglyurls = true.
Is there a way to implement `some_good_predicate_to_check_uglyurl?

href="{{ .Root.Site.Home.Permalink }}
        {{ if some_good_predicate_to_check_uglyurl }}/index,html{{end}}
">
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Unless you will always publish another page that you could check, the answer is no. And even if you could check another page, that may not be indicative of intent because uglyURLs can also be configured per-section.

For anyone stumbling across this, these two issues are closely related:

Addressing the first one would break some existing sites. So this is either a V2 thing or a reallyUglyURLs config setting. But then we also have ugly and noUgly properties for each output format, so we’d have to decide how those should behave. It’s messy.