Please change the default baseURL

[frjo]

Please change this to something like https://example.org/. In the Hugo forums we get large number of new users that get in to trouble because they keep this example setting.

Mainroad/exampleSite/config.toml

Line 1 in ed54a7c

baseurl = "/"

Mainroad/README.md

Line 54 in ed54a7c

baseurl = "/"

[Vimux]

I don't see WHY replacing one with the other will make a difference. The end user can set this field correctly, not us. If not, side-effects occur in both cases. So I'd like arguments for the change.

[frjo]

Thanks for responding!

I think baseurl = "https://example.org/" makes it more obvious that you are supposed to change the value. If users still do not change the value it will also fail more obviously.

With baseurl = "/" the site will more or less work and users come to the forums frustrated why their site is misbehaving.

These are some of the problems you get with using baseurl = "/":

1. The hugo server command will output Web Server is available at //localhost:1313/ (bind address 127.0.0.1) . See the schema less address for the dev server.
2. No full URLs can be created, <link rel="canonical" href="/"> is e.g. not correct for the front page. It should be <link rel="canonical" href="https://example.org/">.
3. When you deploy the site to be served in a sub dir, e.g. https://example.org/docs/ no resources, i.e. css/js/images/, will be loaded.
4. Things like image in the RSS feed will have incorrect URLs.

( I have posted the same issue to a number of other popular Hugo themes.)