post.path with pretty urls

[jonsaul]

HI, looking for an idea on the correct way to work around an issue I have when using the pretty urls and calling /{{ post.path }} my posts are html files and so the resulting url I get back is "/posts/foo.html" which will display "Sorry the page /posts/foo.html could not be found on this server."

So essentially my issue is that in a page called "posts.html" (rendered url is /posts/) I am doing something like:

{% for post in posts %} <a href="/{{ post.path }}">{{post.title}}</a> {% endfor %}

and getting the message "Sorry the page /posts/foo.html could not be found on this server."

Any ideas on how I dynamically pull the post.path to return something more like /posts/foo/, if I manually remove .html from the url the page will render correctly.

Hopefully this isn't a stupid question...

[krallin]

No, definitely not a stupid question :).

This is actually supported out of the box:

{% for post in posts %}
    <a href="{% url  post.path %}">{{ post.title }}</a>
{% endfor %}

(the {% url ... %} mechanism is documented in the README)

Then, enable prettify in your configuration. This is documented in the README as well.

Cheers,

[jonsaul]

Hi thanks for your quick response on this: your answer makes perfect sense to me and I have been through the steps your suggested, I am still experiencing some issues with this, in order to test I cloned the example blog from github and tried to use this method on there , I can see that in the build folder the posts are now moved into a directory and an 'index.html' has been created for each, I still get the same response though when I attempt to link to a post using {% url post.path %} this makes me think I am missing some additional config setting maybe, the url still returns the post with the html extension and is not found Sorry the page /posts/third-post.html could not be found on this server. for example...

[jonsaul]

also getting this output to the console during build

/index.html: page resource does not exist: posts/third-post.html /index.html: page resource does not exist: posts/second-post.html /index.html: page resource does not exist: posts/first-post.html /posts/first-post.html: static resource does not exist: favicon.ico /posts/first-post.html: static resource does not exist: static/css/master.css /posts/first-post.html: page resource does not exist: posts/second-post.html /posts/second-post.html: static resource does not exist: favicon.ico /posts/second-post.html: static resource does not exist: static/css/master.css /posts/second-post.html: page resource does not exist: posts/first-post.html /posts/second-post.html: page resource does not exist: posts/third-post.html /posts/third-post.html: page resource does not exist: posts/second-post.html

[krallin]

Duh. That blog plugin is a mess : (...

All right, here's what you should do:

• In plugins/blog.py, add postContext['page'] = page below all the other postContext['page]' = ... statements
• In the page, use this:

{% for post in posts %}
    <a href="{% url  post.page.link_url %}">{{ post.title }}</a>
{% endfor %}

Cheers,

[jonsaul]

Amazing, working perfectly now. Thank you so much :)

[krallin]

Awesome; happy to help : )