Index.html permanent in browser address bar

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How can I have the homepage as localhost/index.html and not only localhost in the address bar?
If I call the url with index in the browser, it immediately removes the index, having just localhost.

2

Does uglyURLs fit your needs?

3

What’s displayed in the address bar is dependend on your HTTP servers response.

You may can configure your server for this.

4

no, after typing /index.html in addressbar, it disappears. same behaviour. I use uglyurl.
@McShelby I work with netlify, on my other non hugo site it works.

My other pages e.g. contact.html keep the name in the addressbar which makes sense, but index.html does not.

5

You can open your browsers network tab to see what the server responds.

Without a real URL it’s just guessing.

6

site is working, you gave the hint.
it is a problem with hugo server on localhost.
so I have to check the local server. Any hints?

7

I wouldn’t say “it is a problem with hugo server” as you shouldn’t use it in production.

How does this behavior affect your local workflow?

8

on the linked site, at the bottom the navmenu is highlighted when clicked.
if index.html is not there, it cannot be highlighted, see:

for (var elem of ['index', "contact", 'imprint']) {
    var ahref = document.createElement("a");
    ahref.id = elem
    ahref.href = elem + '.html';
    ahref.textContent = elem[0].toUpperCase() + elem.slice(1)
    bottomnav.append(ahref)
}

let path = window.location.pathname.split('/').pop().replace('.html', '')
const element = document.getElementById(path)
if (element) element.classList.add('active');
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This is an issue with your JavaScript and not with the server. Try using this line instead:

let path = window.location.pathname.split('/').pop().replace('.html', '') || 'index'
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so if ‘’ is after the hostname, path will use 'index'. I suppose that you do not need .html.
ok, fixed.

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If you want it displayed in the search bar, then your current solution is likely correct, but test with different browsers.

However, I don’t think it is generally a good idea to show the file name or extension unless there is a very good reason to do so. Browsers and servers go to great lengths to hide that.

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