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flatiron / blacksmith

A generic static site generator built using flatiron, plates, and marked.
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Blacksmith should not assume index.html completion #18

Open jfhbrook opened 12 years ago

jfhbrook commented 12 years ago

Quote from Bradley:

Currently we assume index.html completion for servers, which while using Apache, node-http-server, etc. is viable, pushing content to a CDN for static sites is a common solution that may not support directory forwarding to index.html.

I'm not actually sure what needs to change in blacksmith to allow for this use case.

keithgutfreund commented 12 years ago

I think the problem is that the hrefs created by Blacksmith are not terminated by slashes. For example, this is an href created by Blacksmith: href="/research-agenda">research agenda Apache is smart enough to first look for a file called "/research-agenda" and when that fails it next looks for "/research-agenda/index.html" which succeeds. Unfortunately, nginx, for example, does not do this and fails to find research-agenda/index.html. So, in these cases the hrefs created by Blacksmith should be terminated by slashes.