All config variables starts with low-case and uses camelCase. If there is abbreviation at the beginning of the name, the whole abbreviation will be written in low-case. If there is abbreviation at the end of the name, the whole abbreviation will be written in upper-case. For example, rssURI.
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Pretty URLs
By default, Hugo creates content with 'pretty' URLs. For example,
content created at /content/extras/urls.md
will be rendered at
/public/extras/urls/index.html
, thus accessible from the browser
at http://example.com/extras/urls/. No non-standard server-side
configuration is required for these pretty URLs to work.
If you would like to have what we call "ugly URLs",
e.g. http://example.com/extras/urls.html, you are in luck.
Hugo supports the ability to create your entire site with ugly URLs.
Simply add uglyurls = true
to your site-wide config.toml
,
or use the --uglyURLs=true
flag on the command line.
If you want a specific piece of content to have an exact URL, you can
specify this in the front matter under the url
key. See Content
Organization for more details.
Canonicalization
By default, all relative URLs encountered in the input are left unmodified,
e.g. /css/foo.css
would stay as /css/foo.css
,
i.e. canonifyURLs
defaults to false
.
By setting canonifyURLs
to true
, all relative URLs would instead
be canonicalized using baseURL
. For example, assuming you have
baseURL = http://yoursite.example.com/
defined in the site-wide
config.toml
, the relative URL /css/foo.css
would be turned into
the absolute URL http://yoursite.example.com/css/foo.css
.
Benefits of canonicalization include fixing all URLs to be absolute, which may aid with some parsing tasks. Note though that all real browsers handle this client-side without issues.
Benefits of non-canonicalization include being able to have resource inclusion be scheme-relative, so that http vs https can be decided based on how this page was retrieved.
Note: In the May 2014 release of Hugo v0.11, the default value of
canonifyURLs
was switched fromtrue
tofalse
, which we think is the better default and should continue to be the case going forward. So, please verify and adjust your website accordingly if you are upgrading from v0.10 or older versions.
To find out the current value of canonifyURLs
for your website, you may use the handy hugo config
command added in v0.13:
hugo config | grep -i canon
Or, if you are on Windows and do not have grep
installed:
hugo config | FINDSTR /I canon
Relative URLs
By default, all relative URLs are left unchanged by Hugo, which can be problematic when you want to make your site browsable from a local file system.
Setting relativeURLs
to true
in the site configuration will cause Hugo to rewrite all relative URLs to be relative to the current content.
For example, if the /post/first/
page contained a link with a relative URL of /about/
, Hugo would rewrite that URL to ../../about/
.