Multilingual site and netlify, file unreadable

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hI, Netlify now complains about my root index.html. It’s a multilingual sitre, who used to work fine. I personally find index.html very weird:

<!doctype html><html lang=fr-FR>
<title>http://psychototale.com/fr/</title>
<link rel=canonical href=http://psychototale.com/fr/>
<meta name=robots content="noindex"><meta charset=utf-8>
<meta http-equiv=refresh content="0; url=http://psychototale.com/fr/">

Is this normal ?
hugo server is fine, but when I open that file with chromium for instance, nothing appears. I know it’s not an advised way to read a local version of a website… But usually something appears.

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With a multilingual site where the default content language is served from a subdirectory, an HTML file that redirects to the default content language is written to the root of the public directory. For example:

<!DOCTYPE html>
<html lang="en-US">
  <head>
    <title>https://example.org/en/</title>
    <link rel="canonical" href="https://example.org/en/">
    <meta name="robots" content="noindex">
    <meta charset="utf-8">
    <meta http-equiv="refresh" content="0; url=https://example.org/en/">
  </head>
</html>

If you don’t see something like that, you or your theme/modules have overridden the embedded alias template.

3

I just posted the root index.html.
I never touched something like that, nor did I know what that alias template was or where to overwrite it.

4

I don’t understand your response.

The index.html file that Hugo creates (from its embedded alias template) in the root of your project is valid.

5

Huh, my question is, is the file whose content I posted valid to you or not ? If so then why is netlify complaining about it specifically ? For instance, it does not have an ending </html> tag, why ?
If it’s not valid, then there’s a bug because I did not modify a template looking even remotely like what you posted.

6

I have no idea what you’re doing.

As I mentioned above, out-of-the-box Hugo renders this:

<!DOCTYPE html>
<html lang="en-US">
  <head>
    <title>https://example.org/en/</title>
    <link rel="canonical" href="https://example.org/en/">
    <meta name="robots" content="noindex">
    <meta charset="utf-8">
    <meta http-equiv="refresh" content="0; url=https://example.org/en/">
  </head>
</html>

When minified it looks like this:

<!doctype html><html lang=en-US><head><title>https://example.org/en/</title>
<link rel=canonical href=https://example.org/en/><meta name=robots content="noindex"><meta charset=utf-8><meta http-equiv=refresh content="0; url=https://example.org/en/"></head></html>

Both are quite valid.

Do I need to create an example to prove this?

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Why the aggression ?
I’m not assuming anything, I’m just puzzled because my output is not like yours -as visibly it is not- and you seem to agree it’s not quite normal. In my case, it doesn’t render out-of-the-box, so either something happens with config, or I changed a template I didn’t know exist, or it’s a bug. I’ll provide a repo.
My version is hugo v0.122.0+extended linux/amd64 BuildDate=2024-02-04T14:35:47Z VendorInfo=debian:0.122.0-1 (because the new breaks some things).

8

No aggression, just a simple question. I’m happy to do it.

9

Well no it’s not necessary, I trust that your program works as intended, I just need to figure out for what reason I don’t get the same here.
You may find a repo here, fist time I get git to work, hourra…

10

Your repo is the public site, not the source.

11

https://codeberg.org/sentinel166/psychototale/archive/master.tar.gz
I’m not interested in making that excuse of a program work. I can’t make the main branch default, nor can I empty a branch, or delete one.
It’s in master

12

Your config

[minify]
minifyOutput = true
[minify.tdewolff.html]
keepDefaultAttrVals = false
keepDocumentTags = false   <-- don't do that
keepEndTags = false
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Still same message from netlify: “Unable to read file”, or “please drop a folder container an index.html file”. You can try creating a site with it, it will certainly be easier than it was for me to make and upload a repo on codeberg

14

So here’s a repository (multilingual site) that I use to test Netlify hosting:
https://github.com/jmooring/hosting-netlify

I just updated the Hugo version and pushed changes. Here’s the live site:
https://hosting-netlify.netlify.app/

No problems. The public/index.html file looks like this:

<!DOCTYPE html>
<html lang="en-US">
  <head>
    <title>https://hosting-netlify.netlify.app/en/</title>
    <link rel="canonical" href="https://hosting-netlify.netlify.app/en/">
    <meta name="robots" content="noindex">
    <meta charset="utf-8">
    <meta http-equiv="refresh" content="0; url=https://hosting-netlify.netlify.app/en/">
  </head>
</html>
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can you push the repo I gave (without the config parameter mentioned) ?

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Here’s the Git repository:
https://github.com/jmooring/psychototale

And your site served via Netlify:
https://psychototale.netlify.app/

17

Ok index.html has nothing to do with this.
your repo works, but if if I add the real content (content/, assets/ and static/, nothing else), the message comes back. index.html is identical, of course.
I cannot use codeberg/github/whatever, I can’t make that work, period.
But then google drive says some files are illisible and refuse to upload them ??
Something really, really weird is happening, when I build the site with content asset and static.
I could only upload an archive, and it’s 260 Mb, sorry (pictures).

18

Exactly.