When I use baseURL as local host, all of my links still link to the served version on my website

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That matters, it tells you you have no layout for home and page that way no pages are recreated but the content of your public folder stays as it is.

  • there’s something wrong with your local submodule import of the papermod theme.

  • check the status git submodule status

    a2eb47bb4b805116dcd34c1605d39835121f8dbe themes/PaperMod (v7.0-119-ga2eb47b)

  • update the submodule

    git submodule update

I’m not able to reproduce your problem using your repository. What I did

git clone https://github.com/onedeeper/mysite --recurse-submodules 
Cloning into 'mysite'...
remote: Enumerating objects: 396, done.
remote: Counting objects: 100% (396/396), done.
remote: Compressing objects: 100% (126/126), done.
remote: Total 396 (delta 197), reused 381 (delta 182), pack-reused 0 (from 0)
Receiving objects: 100% (396/396), 824.96 KiB | 1.78 MiB/s, done.
Resolving deltas: 100% (197/197), done.
Submodule 'themes/PaperMod' (https://github.com/adityatelange/hugo-PaperMod.git) 
registered for path 'themes/PaperMod'
Cloning into 'C:/_repos/github/clone/mysite/themes/PaperMod'...
remote: Enumerating objects: 7462, done.
remote: Counting objects: 100% (40/40), done.
remote: Compressing objects: 100% (36/36), done.
remote: Total 7462 (delta 11), reused 21 (delta 4), pack-reused 7422 (from 1)
Receiving objects: 100% (7462/7462), 9.38 MiB | 1.70 MiB/s, done.
Resolving deltas: 100% (4410/4410), done.
Submodule path 'themes/PaperMod': checked out 'a2eb47bb4b805116dcd34c1605d39835121f8dbe'
hugo server 
WARN  deprecated: site config key paginate was deprecated in Hugo v0.128.0 and will be 
removed in a future release. Use pagination.pagerSize instead.
Watching for changes in C:\_repos\github\clone\mysite {archetypes,assets,content,layouts,static,themes}
Watching for config changes in C:\_repos\github\clone\mysite\hugo.toml
Start building sites …
hugo v0.135.0-f30603c47f5205e30ef83c70419f57d7eb7175ab+extended windows/amd64 BuildDate=2024-09-27T13:17:08Z VendorInfo=gohugoio

WARN  deprecated: .Site.Author was deprecated in Hugo v0.124.0 and will be removed in a 
future release. Use taxonomies instead.
WARN  The author key in site configuration is deprecated. Use params.author.name instead.

                 | EN
-------------------+-----
Pages            | 21
Paginator pages  |  0
Non-page files   |  0
Static files     | 20
Processed images |  0
Aliases          |  7
Cleaned          |  0

Built in 43 ms
Environment: "development"
Serving pages from disk
Running in Fast Render Mode. For full rebuilds on change: hugo server --disableFastRender
Web Server is available at http://localhost:1313/ (bind address 127.0.0.1)
Press Ctrl+C to stop
here's the result of the generated home page: 
<!DOCTYPE html>
<html lang="en" dir="auto">

<head>
	<meta name="generator" content="Hugo 0.135.0"><script src="/livereload.js?mindelay=10&amp;v=2&amp;port=1313&amp;path=livereload" data-no-instant defer></script><meta charset="utf-8">
<meta http-equiv="X-UA-Compatible" content="IE=edge">
<meta name="viewport" content="width=device-width, initial-scale=1, shrink-to-fit=no">
<meta name="robots" content="noindex, nofollow">
<title>udesh</title>

<meta name="description" content="">
<meta name="author" content="">
<link rel="canonical" href="http://localhost:1313/">
<link crossorigin="anonymous" href="/assets/css/stylesheet.01e04f4f86ae4dc2260171c32fa67a7e225672ca47849727998e24982bc3323a.css" integrity="sha256-AeBPT4auTcImAXHDL6Z6fiJWcspHhJcnmY4kmCvDMjo=" rel="preload stylesheet" as="style">
<link rel="icon" href="http://localhost:1313/favicon.ico">
<link rel="icon" type="image/png" sizes="16x16" href="http://localhost:1313/favicon-16x16.png">
<link rel="icon" type="image/png" sizes="32x32" href="http://localhost:1313/favicon-32x32.png">
<link rel="apple-touch-icon" href="http://localhost:1313/apple-touch-icon.png">
<link rel="mask-icon" href="http://localhost:1313/safari-pinned-tab.svg">
<meta name="theme-color" content="#2e2e33">
<meta name="msapplication-TileColor" content="#2e2e33">
<link rel="alternate" type="application/rss+xml" href="http://localhost:1313/index.xml">
<link rel="alternate" hreflang="en" href="http://localhost:1313/">
<noscript>
    <style>
        #theme-toggle,
        .top-link {
            display: none;
        }

    </style>
    <style>
        @media (prefers-color-scheme: dark) {
            :root {
                --theme: rgb(29, 30, 32);
                --entry: rgb(46, 46, 51);
                --primary: rgb(218, 218, 219);
                --secondary: rgb(155, 156, 157);
                --tertiary: rgb(65, 66, 68);
                --content: rgb(196, 196, 197);
                --code-block-bg: rgb(46, 46, 51);
                --code-bg: rgb(55, 56, 62);
                --border: rgb(51, 51, 51);
            }

            .list {
                background: var(--theme);
            }

            .list:not(.dark)::-webkit-scrollbar-track {
                background: 0 0;
            }

            .list:not(.dark)::-webkit-scrollbar-thumb {
                border-color: var(--theme);
            }
        }

    </style>
</noscript>
</head>

<body class="list" id="top">
<script>
    if (window.matchMedia('(prefers-color-scheme: dark)').matches) {
        document.body.classList.add('dark');
    }

</script>

<header class="header">
    <nav class="nav">
        <div class="logo">
            <a href="http://localhost:1313/" accesskey="h" title="udesh (Alt + H)">udesh</a>
            <div class="logo-switches">
            </div>
        </div>
        <ul id="menu">
            <li>
                <a href="http://localhost:1313/" title="home">
                    <span class="active">home</span>
                </a>
            </li>
            <li>
                <a href="http://localhost:1313/podcast/" title="podcast">
                    <span>podcast</span>
                </a>
            </li>
            <li>
                <a href="http://localhost:1313/personal/" title="writing/personal">
                    <span>writing/personal</span>
                </a>
            </li>
            <li>
                <a href="http://localhost:1313/academic/" title="writing/academic">
                    <span>writing/academic</span>
                </a>
            </li>
            <li>
                <a href="http://localhost:1313/misc/" title="misc.">
                    <span>misc.</span>
                </a>
            </li>
        </ul>
    </nav>
</header>
<main class="main"> 
<div class="post-content"><p>I&rsquo;m Udesh Habaraduwa.<br>
I believe humanity is good, valuable, and worth saving.<br>
I believe in the power of reason and science but worship neither.<br>
I believe problems are inevitable, solvable, and worth solving.<br>
I believe that, all else being equal, it&rsquo;s better to be free.</p>
<hr>
<p><strong>Note</strong>: This site is under construction. I am working on bringing my work, currently unorganized, into this space. Meanwhile, you can check out:</p>
<ul>
<li>My <a href="https://onedeeper.substack.com">podcast</a>.</li>
<li>My <a href="https://www.linkedin.com/in/onedeeper/">LinkedIn</a>.</li>
<li>My <a href="https://github.com/onedeeper">GitHub</a>.</li>
</ul>
<p>Thank you for your patience!</p>


</div>
    </main>
    
<footer class="footer">
        <span>&copy; 2024 <a href="http://localhost:1313/">udesh</a></span> · 

    <span>
        Powered by
        <a href="https://gohugo.io/" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Hugo</a> &
        <a href="https://github.com/adityatelange/hugo-PaperMod/" rel="noopener" target="_blank">PaperMod</a>
    </span>
</footer>
<a href="#top" aria-label="go to top" title="Go to Top (Alt + G)" class="top-link" id="top-link" accesskey="g">
    <svg xmlns="http://www.w3.org/2000/svg" viewBox="0 0 12 6" fill="currentColor">
        <path d="M12 6H0l6-6z" />
    </svg>
</a>

<script>
    let menu = document.getElementById('menu')
    if (menu) {
        menu.scrollLeft = localStorage.getItem("menu-scroll-position");
        menu.onscroll = function () {
            localStorage.setItem("menu-scroll-position", menu.scrollLeft);
        }
    }

    document.querySelectorAll('a[href^="#"]').forEach(anchor => {
        anchor.addEventListener("click", function (e) {
            e.preventDefault();
            var id = this.getAttribute("href").substr(1);
            if (!window.matchMedia('(prefers-reduced-motion: reduce)').matches) {
                document.querySelector(`[id='${decodeURIComponent(id)}']`).scrollIntoView({
                    behavior: "smooth"
                });
            } else {
                document.querySelector(`[id='${decodeURIComponent(id)}']`).scrollIntoView();
            }
            if (id === "top") {
                history.replaceState(null, null, " ");
            } else {
                history.pushState(null, null, `#${id}`);
            }
        });
    });

</script>
<script>
    var mybutton = document.getElementById("top-link");
    window.onscroll = function () {
        if (document.body.scrollTop > 800 || document.documentElement.scrollTop > 800) {
            mybutton.style.visibility = "visible";
            mybutton.style.opacity = "1";
        } else {
            mybutton.style.visibility = "hidden";
            mybutton.style.opacity = "0";
        }
    };

</script>
</body>

</html>

You committed your public folder.

This contains old build files with the productive URL. As by before with the themes not working properly, there are no new pages generated/updated.

There’s (in most cases) no good reason to commit that. Better use a workflow, like this one from the docs Host on GitHub Pages | Hugo

If you really want to use and commit your locally generated public folder, you could use Static HTML By GitHub Actions

  • make sure you have a clean public folder before building (hugo won’t delete files there, just add/update)
  • test your site locally with hugo server
  • make sure you have no oild stuff in public
  • recreate the final version with just hugo and commit.