Mixed Asset Issue with Hugo and Baidu Causing Chrome to not load CSS

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I am using this ‘hugo-theme-cleanwhite’ theme in Hugo:

Here is my cloned repo:

The site is live at:

https://devandthedu.de

It seems to work alright in Firefox but Chrome will not load CSS and I think it is due to Mixed Content, specifically requesting an insecure image ‘http://www.baidu.com/search/error.html’.

I am fairly new to this and cannot figure out a way to rid the public project of any reference to Baidu since I have no use for it. Anybody who can give advice I would really appreciate it.

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From the theme’s readme, the analytics section: https://github.com/zhaohuabing/hugo-theme-cleanwhite/blob/1217229bf2d417d6d54f0083a91530c3e43dc3fb/exampleSite/content/post/readme.md#analytics

Leave the googleAnalytics or ba_track_id key empty to disable it.

So try adding this to your config.toml file:

[params]
  ba_track_id = ""

Also, see the theme’s example config.toml https://github.com/zhaohuabing/hugo-theme-cleanwhite/blob/3ee4f2184fd6f37d6f590942157e8c7fca83ac88/exampleSite/config.toml

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Thank you, I added the empty key into my [params] and built the public folder again into my repo that is served on Github Pages:

It still had references to Baidu analytics though so I manually removed all instances and still Chrome will not load the CSS. Not sure what the issue is now but I reached out to the theme author to see if he had any advice

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I think now that it is due to - net::ERR_CERT_COMMON_NAME_INVALID while trying to GET assets such as my site CSS

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If you’re serving through https, set the first line of config.toml to baseURL = "https://devandthedu.de"

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+1 for usage of The Dude (I am an ordained priest of The Church of Dudism, just saying ;))

Check your footer.html and remove the whole section for baidu:

You can search for each occurrence of “baidu” in Github on the search form in the top right and this is the only location I see it appearing.

EDIT:

to correct myself: I would overwrite the file in the theme. Make a copy, save it in /layouts/partials/footer.html and remove the baidu part.

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The next section does not even ask for the Baidu code, so this could be removed too (and most probably is the bad guy retrieving a non-existing ID and such delivering the error.html):

That’s a bug in the theme and you might want to open an issue in the theme-repository for that.