Make home to be Subdirectory

[DavyDev]

@DavyDev

Hi there community.

I want to have my homepage not to be on the root domain.
So I expect that when I do hugo server locally, the result would be http://localhost:1313/myblog , not localhost:1313 , and another expectation is when I enter for example localhost:1313 , the output will be Not Found. I am curious about this, since I have ever experimented using jekyll before.

I have change my BaseURL in the TOML config file to be baseurl = "http://localhost:1313/myblog" , but apparently still same output as default. It still gives me output localhost:1313/myblog to be Not Found.

What part should I tweak? Thanks

Figured out! I did many trial and errors. Kukuku… many are viewing but none are replying. But well… splendid!

[debrucer]

Nobody apparently had an answer. You found an answer by trying. I just joined here minutes ago. It would be helpful to hear how you did it

[ITSecMedia]

It works, don’t worry.
I use Hugo on two domains in subfolders.

[chanux]

I use following works in my config.toml and it works.

baseurl = "http://example.com/blog/"

But the imags are still broken. Will update if I figure it out.

This is apparently a common issue with no real answer easily found.

[sairam]

could you try looking at the theme to see if there is /js instead of $.Site.BaseURL/js etc., ?

[kaushalmodi]

@DavyDev

Figured out! I did many trial and errors. Kukuku… many are viewing but none are replying. But well… splendid!

But you then failed to mention what exactly you figured out

In any case, closing the loop; see the solution here:

Run site from subdirectory (in localhost + live web server)

hugo server -b localhost/foo/ Also, in general, setting canonifyURLs = true works better in my experience when dealing with baseURLs with subdirs. There was a recent thread where @it-gro and I got into indepth analysis of relURL, absURL, canonifyURLs with such baseURLs.

[chanux]

I finally got around to fix my site

baseurl = "//example.com/blog/"

RelativeURLs=true
CanonifyURLs=true

These are the relevant settings. It seem to work without CanonifyURLs=true but I read that the two settings interact with each other.

[Testoulas]

The best way for me to fix the problem is to create a subdomain. Then, even if the web site is physically hosted in a subfolder, the baseurl value doesn’t have to add a suffix with the subfolder name.

As an example:

Physically the site files are stored in www.example.com/blog/
Create a sub domain blog.example.com that points to www.example.com/blog/
In config.toml adapt the value of baseurl (baseurl = “https://blog.example.com/”)

Then it works, images are displayed, path to css is correct, etc…