Build fails on Windows: "Error: Could not find author page at..."

[ImAlexisSaez]

I have updated the theme (4.2.5 to '4.3') and renamed the folder author to authors. I get this error when building:

Building sites … ERROR 2019/05/06 11:40:53 Could not find an author page at `/authors/authors%5Cadmin%5C`. Please check the value of `author` in your About widget and create an associated author page if one does not already exist. See https://sourcethemes.com/academic/docs/page-builder/#about
Total in 2443 ms
Error: Error building site: logged 1 error(s)

Repo: https://github.com/ImAlexisSaez/academic-kickstart

[gcushen]

Something is wrong with where your git submodule is pointing:

git clone https://github.com/ImAlexisSaez/academic-kickstart.git acad-test && cd $_
git submodule update --init --recursive

Server does not allow request for unadvertised object ce011c65aa9a538d1e6086d8fa4ba232efb90e36 Fetched in submodule path 'themes/academic', but it did not contain ce011c65aa9a538d1e6086d8fa4ba232efb90e36. Direct fetching of that commit failed.

After placing the latest (master) Academic files in themes/academic/, it works fine:

➜ hugo

                   | EN
+------------------+-----+
  Pages            | 300
  Paginator pages  |  38
  Non-page files   | 157
  Static files     |  14
  Processed images | 352
  Aliases          |  68
  Sitemaps         |   1
  Cleaned          |   0

Total in 686 ms

[ImAlexisSaez]

Hi, sorry for 'reopen' the issue.

Yesterday, I deleted the whole repository and tried to start the website from scratch (git option). I got the same error related to the 'autors' (same message that appears in the first post).

However, if I modify \layouts\partials\widgets\about.html:

{{ $person_page_path := (printf "/authors/%s" (urlize $author)) }}
{{ $person_page := site.GetPage $person_page_path }}

to

{{ $person_page_path := (printf "/authors/%s" (urlize $author)) }}
{{ $person_page := site.GetPage "/authors/admin" }}

Now I can visualize locally my webpage using ./view.sh. I've found this solution here, but I don't know if this is a possible bug.

[gcushen]

For reference, your site compiled fine with Hugo v0.55.5 and the latest Academic master (8857bff) on Mac/Linux.

[gcushen]

Ah, I believe you are using Windows. The issue appears to be caused by the backward slashes in Windows paths.

[ImAlexisSaez]

That's right, I'm a Windows user.

[gcushen]

Thanks for reporting this and helping us to investigate the cause of the issue. If you update to the latest master version of Academic you'll pick up the fix :)

[ImAlexisSaez]

I'm testing it and it works without having to manually change the layout. Thank you ^^.

[saxarona]

Hello, Windows user here with exact same problem and solution, so I guess the bug re-appeared.

I'm using hugo v0.63.2/extended windows/amd64, with academic 4.7.0.

Could not find an author page at `/author/sax`. Please check the value of `author` in your About widget and create an associated author page if one does not already exist.

Solved by hardcoding the path in about.html, line 12 (as stated in a comment above):

{{ $person_page := site.GetPage "/authors/admin" }}