Hugo server Vs WAMP sever: a question of URL

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Hello, new with Hugo here. I am building a multilingual (EN-FR) website with Hugo v0.79.1 and the Toha theme.
I build it local and plan to upload the Public folder to a host when it will be ready.
Eveything runs perfect when I run the ‘‘hugo server’’ command.
I planed to test it on a local install of a WAMP server, before the final upload to the host provider. So I installed WAMP, and run the ‘‘hugo’’ command , to create the Public folder, which I put in the www. folder of WAMP. On click to the index.html file
( /www/public/index.html), the home page is displayed perfect, like it should.
But… when I try to navigate to the posts folder, for example, the site is displayed without the css, and the adress bar shows : (/www/public/posts)
If I type the adress by hand, like: (/www/public/posts.html) the site displays the right folder correctly.
When I am on this correctly displayed folder (/www/public/posts.html) and try to come back to the home page, by clicking on the site title, it fails .
The display shows a tree view of the site folders, without css, and the adress is :
( /www/public/) while it should be: (/www/public/index.html )
I suspect a question of Urls.

I have modified the top of my ‘‘config.yaml’’ file like this:

For use with Hugo built in server :
relativeURLs: true
uglyURLs: false
baseURL: “/”

For use with Public fold and WAMP :
relativeURLs: true
uglyURLs: true
baseURL: “/”

Could somebody point me to the right direction, please?

BTW if you are in need of genuine EN to FR translations, PM me, I would be happy to help :slight_smile:

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Since you uploaded the “public” directory to “www” the actual baseURL becomes “/public/” and not “/”.

Instead upload the content of the public directory to “www” and it should work.

P.S. You really should set the baseURL to the actual URL of the site.

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Thank you frjo :slight_smile:
I tried A LOT of solutions ( “/public/” or, “/” or https://www.my-site.com and none of them worked.
Only the home page is displayed correctly.
The other pages are displayed without css.
I will come back latter on this.

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Back with a little more time… To sum up:
Changes in the baseUrl did nothing.
The home page is displayed perfect with this address
C:/wamp64/www/index.html
with everything functional, at the condition that the config.yaml is topped with :
relativeURLs: true
uglyURLs: true

As soon as I try to navigate to the post page through the menu
C:/wamp64/www/posts/
or, to the alternate language section of the home page,
C:/wamp64/www/fr/
the site is dispayed without css.

Curiously: if I type the correct address by hand :
C:/wamp64/www/posts.html
or
C:/wamp64/www/fr/posts.html
Everything is displayed perfect, with the right css. The navigation inside the post folder is perfectly functional , in each language, through the menu, with .js functions loaded ( lightbox2)
I am a little lost…
Thank you for your time.