Support schemaless BaseURL

[kanata2]

Hello, There is a point which was worrisome when using the Hugo to GitHub pages. I want to ask you what I should do in the following cases.

For example

Now, GitHub pages support https. you can access http://example.github.io and https://example.github.io by default when user name of GitHub is example. At this time, if you set one (http or https) as baseurl in config.toml and describe like <script src="{{ .Site.BaseURL }}path/to/example.js"></script> in HTML , it will not load some files when user access GitHub pages in the other protocol. (Seemingly, many hugo's themes use BaseURL in src attribute of script (, link, img, etc) tag)

I believe that we should dispense with a protocol in the src attribute. recommend: src="//path/to/example.js" not recommend: src="http://path/to/example.js"

Solutions

I came up with two solutions.

• Add method in Hugo such as it is easily to be able to access string without a protocol from the BaseURL
• Deal with the theme that I have used

Please tell me if there is already suggested solutions.

[kanata2]

sorry, i have solved the problem... 😢

[kanata2]

I thought going well if you set //example.github.io/ (remove protocol) as baseurl, but it was useless... (https://github.com/spf13/hugo/issues/2085#issuecomment-210615051) I want to ask you what I should do in the case.

[bep]

I think the solution is to add support for schema-less baseURLs, if not already working, as you hint at.

[kanata2]

Thank you for your comment (and changing the title to a more appropriate one).

[bep]

It would be nice if you can be more clear about what doesn't work when using a schemaless baseURL?

[heavywatal]

Do you need a real baseURL in you content? Relative paths from the root will be enough for src attributes. For example, baseURL = "/" works fine for me on https://username.github.io/ as well as http://localhost/.

[dschanoeh]

I'm hosting a page with hugo on my own domain and I'm using a schema-less base URL. In general, this works just fine. However, when I try to preview the generated page through a $ hugo server, I end up with a 404. Having a baseURL='//domain.tld/'leads to the following local access URL: http://localhost:1313//domain.tld/. Removing the "extra" slash doesn't seem to help. I hope this is appropriate to add to this ticket but this is a bug that hugo itself seems to have with schema-less URLs.

[kanata2]

when I try to preview the generated page through a $ hugo server, I end up with a 404. Having a baseURL='//domain.tld/' leads to the following local access URL: http://localhost:1313//domain.tld/.

I also didn't go well because of the above reason. However, in the case of GitHub Pages, I also feel one of the solutions is the way that @heavywatal wrote.

[atomi]

Another issue is if you have your blog hosted on multiple domains (mirrored). Using baseUrl, any mirror pulling from a central git repo will have the same baseUrl which would be a problem.

Is there any way to just have hugo not write the base href header?

[pfft-meh]

I too quite miss why baseUrl is needed at all... seems there are A LOT of issues based on this concept.

[bep]

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