Maybe "relativeURLs = true" isn't working properly, or maybe I haven't understood it

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I’m starting with “Academic Hugo Theme”. To test it I decided to deploy the starting blog “as-is” to my own test site on a local machine with Apache. Now since this machine serves other sites, I opted to put the new site below the main http://my.local.domain/, so that it can be accessed by something like http://my.local.domain/NewSite. To do this I directed Hugo to produce relative URLs with relativeURLs = true. The fact is that the nice bubbles-wide.jpg background in the section Demos does not appear in the final display of the Site. Reviewing the produced index.html, i discovered that the <section id="demo" ...> tag, refers to the URL as url('/img/headers/bubbles-wide.jpg') and not as url('./img/headers/bubbles-wide.jpg'), as it should be. I don’t know who to “blame” for this: Hugo, Academic, or maybe me for not understanding how to deploy my new site.

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This forum is not about opening topics to blame anyone or anything this is a support forum and we have guidelines that you are meant to follow before opening a topic.

Please have a look at: Requesting Help

You need to post the source code of your project so that people in this forum can have a look and hopefully point you to the right direction.

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You are right. I didn’t mean to be rude.
Maybe I should have reworded my last phrase as “… I don’t know where to direct my attention for searching a solution: to Hugo, to Academic or elsewhere”.
By the way, my project repository is at:

Is there anyone who can help me to spot the problem and its solution?

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From what I’ve seen the Academic theme already uses .RelPermalink (relative URLs) for its assets handling.

The use of relativeURLs = true is the culprit of your problem especially since the project has a baseURL that points to a subdirectory.

As things are now for example the missing stylesheet has a URL of ./EESite/EESite/css/academic.min.dd629241ea9333c62c071f4a25f829ff.css which is obviously wrong.

To fix remove relativeURLs = true from the config. Then run hugo server --ignoreCache --gc to remove the cache and regenerate all resources.

After doing the above all assets load properly on my end.

Also as a slightly unrelated tip create a .gitignore file and within enter /public There is really no need to include the /public directory in git.

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Wow! Thanks. It worked exactly as you said.