While I’m well acquainted with absolute and relative paths, I haven’t been able to figure out how .Permalink
and .RelPermalink
differ in practice. For instance when iterating over pages in a list template, either property gives me what I would call an absolute path. I guess I’d stick to .Permalink
either way, but I’m curious.
Let’s say you are running locally with hugo server
then for the homepage:
.RelPermalink
: /
.Permalink
: http://localhost:1313/
.RelPermalink
as the name says is relative to the root / domain. .Permalink
in that sense is absolute (like the link you would share with someone).
Hope that helps.
Edit: I normally always use .RelPermalink
.
Yeah, that’s what I expected, but for me the page didn’t update accordingly, hence my confusion. I think I often run into caching issues with Hugo, making it very difficult to learn by trial-and-error.
Thanks!
I suspect that many such issues are HTTP client caching (the browser); we have a flag to disable this in the server, but I recommend to always run with something ala the Chrome dev console open (with caching turned off (default)) when editing Hugo templates.