Slug in multilingual site not working as expected

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1

Hi all!

I ran ran into a strange issue:

Following Régis’s instructions

config.yml is

languages:
  en:
    languageName: English
    weight: 1
  fr:
    languageName: Français
    weight: 2
  es:
    languageName: Spanish
    weight: 3

The folder structure is

content
    └── about
        ├── index.md
        ├── index.es.md
        ├── index.fr.md
        ├── header.jpg
        └── header.es.jpg

Yet, when front matter for index.fr.md is

title: À Propos
slug: a-propos

the path is not /fr/a-propos/index.html as expected but strangely /fr/about/a-propos/index.html.

(I also tried to change the filename to about.fr.md.)

Has anyone got a clue what can be wrong here?

2

How is the permalinks setting in your config set? For example:

[permalinks]
  posts = "/:year/:month/:day/:slug/"
3

Thank you, Rick!

The config is just as shown above. I have set up a new minimal test setup with just the config.yml and the three files in /content/about/.

(BTW: I have some large multilingual Hugo sites running, yet with a different folder/content structure and without page resources:

content     └── _index.md
    └── about.md
    └── about.es.md └── about.fr.md

There slug: works as expected.)

4

I did a lot of testing now. No success.

Now, I clonded Régis’s website and added slug: test to this page

The English (standard language) URL is

http://localhost:1313/project/boralex-france/

whereas the URL for Frech is now

http://localhost:1313/fr/project/boralex-france/test/

(expected: http://localhost:1313/fr/project/test/).

Did I just get anything wrong? Is this the expected behaviour? There are no frontmatter: oder permalink: setting in Régis’s brilliant article.

I do not want to ping/disturb Régis :wink: