Hindsite Reference

Hindsite is a fast, lightweight static website generator. It builds static websites with optional document and tag indexes from Markdown and Rimu source documents.

The Hindsite stand-alone executable includes:

References to Markdown throughout this documentation apply to both Markdown and Rimu.

This documentation is written in Rimu.

Installation

If you have Go installed on your system then you can download and compile the latest version with this command:

go install github.com/srackham/hindsite/v2@latest

Requires at least Go 1.18.

Pre-compiled binaries are also available on the Hindsite releases page. Download the relevant release and extract the hindsite executable.

The latest source code is available on Github and can be downloaded and installed with these commands:

git clone https://github.com/srackham/hindsite.git
cd hindsite
go install

Quick Start

Create a fully functional blog and newsletter website with just two Hindsite commands:

  1. Create a new Hindsite site directory and install the built-in blog template using the Hindsite init command:
    mkdir myblog
cd myblog
hindsite init -from blog
  2. Build the website, start the Hindsite web server and open it in the browser:
    hindsite serve -launch

Include the -v (verbose) command option to see what's going on. If you are familiar with Jekyll or Hugo you'll be right a home (Hindsite can read Jekyll and Hugo Markdown document front matter).

Sites

A Hindsite site consists of three separate directories:

By default, these directories reside in the site directory and are named content, template and build. The default locations can be changed using command-line options.

For example, here's the built-in blog site directory structure:

├── build
│   ├── images
│   ├── indexes
│   │   ├── newsletters
│   │   └── posts
│   │       └── tags
│   ├── newsletters
│   └── posts
├── content
│   ├── images
│   ├── newsletters
│   └── posts
└── template
    ├── init
    │   ├── images
    │   ├── newsletters
    │   └── posts
    ├── newsletters
    └── posts

Corresponding content and template directory paths maintain relationships between content documents, their layout templates and their configuration files. For example, layout templates and configuration files in template/posts are applied to content files in content/posts

A single template directory can process multiple content directories, similarly a single content directory can be processed by multiple template directories. The build, content and template directories must be mutually exclusive (not contained within one another).

The build/indexes directory contains the generated document and tag index pages.

The template/init directory is optional, it contains content-files which are used to initialise new sites (see the init command). In all other respects the init directory is just like any other content directory.

Commands

Hindsite implements the following commands:

build
Build the website:
hindsite build [OPTION]...
help
Display usage documentation:
hindsite help [COMMAND]
init
Initialize a new site from a site template:
hindsite init [OPTION]...
new
Create a new content document:
hindsite new [OPTION]... DOCUMENT
serve
Start the development webserver:
hindsite serve [OPTION]...

Common command options

All commands accept the following options:

-site SITE_DIR
Set the Hindsite site directory (defaults to the current directory).
-content CONTENT_DIR
Set the site content directory (defaults to SITE_DIR/content).
-build BUILD_DIR
Set the site build directory (defaults to SITE_DIR/build).
-template TEMPLATE_DIR
Set the site template directory (defaults to SITE_DIR/template).
-config CONFIG_FILE
Merge the CONFIG_FILE configuration file into the site's root configuration.
-var NAME=VALUE
Sets the root configuration variable NAME to VALUE. It will often be necessary to shell-quote the NAME=VALUE argument. Examples
-var timezone=UTC
-var "templates=*.md"
-var "user.banner=News & Views"
-v
Increase verbosity. -vv is an alias for -v -v.
  • Content, build and template directories are mutually exclusive and cannot overlap, with one exception: the content directory can be TEMPLATE_DIR/init. This is handy for testing site template initialization content.
  • Sites are not restricted to a single content, template and build directory. The -content, -template and -build options allow separate builds from differing combinations of build, content and template directories.
  • Multiple -var and -config options can be specified, they are processed in the order they appear on the command-line.

Help command

The help command prints Hindsite documentation and version information.

Syntax

hindsite help [COMMAND]

Options

Init command

The init command creates a new site from a site template or from a built-in template. The SOURCE template is copied to the template directory then the content directory is initialised with the contents of the source template init directory.

The inclusion of a template init directory allows example documents and static files to be installed along with the site template. Hindsite's built-in templates all include init directories.

Syntax

hindsite init [OPTION]...

Options

Common command options plus:

-from SOURCE

Execution

  1. The SOURCE template is copied to the site TEMPLATE_DIR.
  2. The template directory structure is recreated in the content directory.
  3. If the TEMPLATE_DIR/init directory exists its contents is copied to the content directory.

Examples

Build command

The build command builds a website in the build directory using files from the content and template directories.

Syntax

hindsite build [OPTION]...

Options

Common command options plus:

-drafts
-keep
-lint

Execution

  1. Configuration files (config.toml and config.yaml files) in the template directory tree are parsed.
  2. All files and folders in the build directory are deleted (unless the -keep option has been specified).
  3. HTML and text templates (*.html and *.txt files) in the template directory tree are parsed.
  4. Static files are processed.
  5. Document indexes are built.
  6. Documents (*.md and *.rmu files) are processed:
    1. Front matter headers are parsed and document variables are computed.
    2. Text file preprocessing is performed.
    3. The document markup is then rendered to HTML and assigned to the .body document variable.
    4. The document's layout template is rendered and root-relative URLs are prefixed with the urlprefix.
    5. The resulting HTML webpage is written to its build path.
  7. If a homepage is specified it is copied to the root of the build directory and named index.html.
  8. If the -lint option is specified document webpages are validated.

Validity checks

Following a site rebuild the -lint option carries out validity checks on the generated HTML webpages.

The existence of external (off-site) URL resources is not checked — for full site validation use a cross-site validator such as the W3C Markup Validation Service.

Validity checks increase site build times.

Errors and warnings

Warnings are indicative of potential problems. Errors are problems that require attention.

Build summary

A summary printed when the build command completes, it includes:

documents
The number of content documents processed.
static
The number of static files processed.
time
The execution time in seconds.

Serve command

The serve command rebuilds the site then starts the built-in webserver in the site build directory. If files in the content or template directories change the serve command automatically rebuilds affected webpages. The server also handles browser live reloading.

Syntax

hindsite serve [OPTION]...

Options

Common command options plus:

-drafts
-keep
-lint
-launch
-navigate
-port [HTTP_PORT][:LR_PORT]

Partial rebuilds

To speed up live reloads and to make the content creation process easier and more responsive the serve command automatically performs partial builds when files in the content and template directories are modified, added or deleted.

The amount of processing required will depend on the size of your site and the type of change. Most content updates are very fast but processing times increase if:

To ensure build integrity you should always perform a complete rebuild before deployment and after site structural changes (the serve command does not automatically process changes to the site directory structure).

New command

The new command creates a new document file in the content directory. The new document's contents are initialised from a Go text template.

Syntax

hindsite new [OPTION]... DOCUMENT

Options

Common command options plus:

-from SOURCE

The following template variables are available to the new template:

.date
The publication date is extracted from the file name YYYY-MM-DD- date prefix. If there is no prefix it defaults to the current date and time.
.title
The document title is set to the DOCUMENT file name stripped of the date prefix and the file name extension; hyphens replaced by spaces; then capitalized.

For example, the following new command will set the title to "Foofoo Valve History" and the date to the current date and time:

hindsite new ./content/posts/foofoo-valve-history.md

The default new document template is:

---
title: {{.title}}
date:  {{.date}}
draft: true
---

Document content goes here.

Built-in templates

Hindsite includes blog, docs and hello built-in site templates which are installed using the Hindsite init command:

To create a site using a built-in template:

  1. Create a directory for the new site (optional).
  2. Install the built-in template with the Hindsite init command.
  3. Build the site and open it the browser with the Hindsite build command.

For example:

mkdir myblog
cd myblog
hindsite init -from blog
hindsite serve -launch

blog built-in template

A template to create a websites for blog posts and newsletters (view the built site here).

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Customisation notes:

docs built-in template

A template to create sites that have a fixed, relatively small number of pages. Ideal for building documentation sites or user guides, FAQs and reference manuals (view the built site here).

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This documentation is based on the docs template.

Customisation notes:

hello built-in template

A minimal single-page built-in template consisting of a single content/index.md document and a single template/layout.html HTML template (view the built site here).

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Built-in template styling

The blog and docs templates include the following block element CSS classes (in content/main.css) which are particularly useful for styling Rimu markup:

CSS class          Description
___________________________________________________________
align-center       Align element content center.
align-left         Align element content left.
align-right        Align element content right.
bordered           Add borders to table element.
cite               Quote and verse attribution.
dl-horizontal      Format labeled lists horizontally.
dl-numbered        Number labeled list items.
no-page-break      Avoid page break inside the element.
no-print           Do not print element.
page-break         Force a page break before the element.
preserve-breaks    Honor line breaks in element content.
sidebar            Paragraph and division block sidebar.
verse              Paragraph and division block verse.
important          Paragraph and division block admonition.
note               Paragraph and division block admonition.
tip                Paragraph and division block admonition.
warning            Paragraph and division block admonition.
___________________________________________________________

Configuration

Website generation is customized with configuration variables (named values) from YAML or TOML formatted configuration files in the site template directory and from -var and -config command-line options.

Configuration files

Configuration files are optional, though most sites will have at least one at the root of the template directory. Additional configuration files can be put in template subdirectories.

Configuration variables

The exclude, include, homepage and urlprefix configuration variables are site-wide and can only reside in the root configuration. All other configuration variables can occur in any configuration file.

Valid configuration variables are:

author
Specifies the default document author and is overridden by the document's author front matter value. TOML example:
author = "Joe Bloggs"
exclude †
A pipe (|) separated list of file and directory paths specifying files from the content directory that are excluded from processing. TOML example:
exclude = "config.rmu|*~|4913"
  • Dotfiles (file names starting with a period) are excluded by default. To force inclusion of a dotfile add it to the include variable.
  • The paths are relative to the content directory.
  • The path separator is a slash (/) character.
  • The file paths can contain wildcard patterns conforming to patterns matched by the Go path.Match() function.
  • If the path contains no path separators then it is matched against all file names e.g. *.swp will match all files in the content directory and subdirectories with the .swp file name extension.
  • If the path contains path separators then it is matched against the file path e.g. posts/*.md will only match files with the .md extension from the posts directory.
  • If the path ends with a slash then it specifies a directory whose contents are excluded (no wildcards are allowed). For example news/archive/ excludes all files from the news/archive directory.
  • To exclude a file in the content root directory, prefix the name name with a path separator e.g. /config.rmu will exclude config.rmu only if it is in the root content directory.
include †
A pip (|) separated list of file and directory paths specifying files from the content directory that are processed unconditionally i.e. irrespective of the exclude variable. include values have the same syntax as the exclude values. TOML example:
include = ".htaccess"
id
Specifies the default behavior of the document id front matter value:
  • If the id configuration value is optional then id front matter values default to blank.
  • If the id configuration value is urlpath then document id front matter values default to the document URL stripped of the urlprefix.
  • If the id configuration value is mandatory then document front matter id's must have explicit non-blank values (an error is generated if a document id is not specified).

The id configuration value defaults to optional. TOML example:

id = "urlpath"
shortdate, mediumdate, longdate
These are date formats for shortdate, mediumdate and longdate document template variables respectively. The values conform to the layouts supported by Go time.Format function. The default values are:
shortdate = "2006-01-02",
mediumdate = "2-Jan-2006",
longdate = "Mon Jan 2, 2006",
homepage †
The optional homepage configuration value is the name of a file, relative to the build directory, that is copied by the build command to the root of the build directory and named index.html. Use the slash (/) character as the path separator to ensure cross-platform compatibility. The main use-case for this feature is for assigning an index file as the site's home page. TOML example:
homepage = "indexes/posts/docs-1.html"
paginate
This variable sets the number of documents per document index page. The default value is 5. Set to -1 to include all documents on a single document index page. TOML example:
paginate = 10
An optional variable for customizing document build paths and URLs. A document's build path is computed by substituting the following permalink placeholders:
%y    Four digit publication date year.
%m    Two digit publication date month.
%d    Two digit publication date day of month.
%f    The build file name.
%p    The build file name minus the file name extension.
  • Publication date substitutions are rendered in the publication date timezone, this ensures permalinks do not change if the timezone is changed.
  • If the permalink ends with a trailing slash then Hindsite creates “pretty” URLs (the expanded permalink is the build file directory path; the build file is named index.html).
  • A document specific permalink can be specified in the document front matter and takes precedence over the permalink configuration variable.
  • A permalink URL will not change provided the permalink value, the document publication date and the document slug are not changed. Changing the source document's content directory location does not change a permalink URL.
  • URLs are prefixed with the urlprefix configuration value.
  • TOML examples:
    permalink = "/posts/%y/%m/%d/%f"
permalink = "/posts/%y-%m-%d/%p/"
templates
A | separated list of file and directory patterns specifying the names of content files that undergo text template expansion. The templates configuration variable has the same syntax as the exclude configuration variable. TOML example:
templates = "*.css|*.js"
timezone
Set to a timezone name from the IANA Timezone Database.
  • It is assigned to document publication dates that specified without a timezone.
  • timezone defaults to "Local" (the system's local timezone).
  • timezone is used to render .shortdate, .mediumdate and .longdate document template variables.
  • TOML example:
    timezone = "Pacific/Auckland"
urlprefix †
This variable is automatically prepended to all root-relative URLs. This allows a site to be rooted in any web server directory without having to hard-wire server paths into URLs. The urlprefix defaults to a blank string. TOML examples:
urlprefix = "/blog"                     # Root-relative URL prefix.
urlprefix = "https://www.example.com"   # Absolute URL prefix.
user
This is a user defined key/value map and provides a mechanism for defining custom template variables. Both keys and values are strings and the keys must be legal Go identifiers. For example:
# TOML
[user]
banner = "News & Views"
byline = "Ac eros etiam enim pellentesque proin"

# YAML
user:
  banner: News & Views
  byline: Ac eros etiam enim pellentesque proin

Are available as these template variables:

.user.banner
.user.byline

† Site-wide root configuration variable.

Content files

Content files are the source files that are used to build the static website.

Documents

Documents are are Markdown (.md) or Rimu (.rmu) files. Each document generates a webpage. Website authoring consists mostly of creating and editing document files. Examples include blog posts, newsletters and articles.

The Hindsite build command converts document markup to HTML which is then rendered to an HTML webpage using the document's layout template. The resulting webpage is written to the site build directory.

A draft document is a document with the draft front matter value set to true. Draft documents are not be included in the built website unless the build command -drafts option is specified.

Static files

Static files provide additional website resources such as CSS, JavaScript and image files.

The build command copies static files to the corresponding location in the build directory.

Text file preprocessing

Text files in the content directory can also undergo optional preprocessing:

To qualify for text template expansion the content file's name must match the templates configuration variable.

Text file preprocessing use-cases include:

Front matter

Front matter is an optional set of variables (named values) declared in a front matter header at the beginning of content files (documents and static files).

Front matter header

The front matter header begins with a start delimiter (which must be the first line of the file), followed by variable declarations, and ending with the an end delimiter line. The delimiter determines the front matter format (TOML or YAML).

Start delimiters
TOML: +++
YAML: ---, <!--, /***
End delimiters
TOML: +++
YAML: ---, -->, ***/

Example YAML front matter:

---
title:    Foo Bar
description: A brief history of the origins of the foo valve.
date:     2018-02-16
tags:     [foo valve, qux, baz]
slug:     foo-valve-history
draft:    true
---

Example TOML front matter:

+++
title = "Foo Bar"
description = "A brief history of the origins of the foo valve."
date = 2018-02-16
tags = ["foo valve", "qux", "baz"]
slug = "foo-valve-history"
draft = true
+++

Front matter variables

Front matter variables are exposed as document template variables during template expansion.

author
The document author. If not specified it defaults to the author configuration value.
date
The document publication date. If it is not specified it is extracted from the file name YYYY-MM-DD- date prefix, if there is no prefix it defaults to Jan 1 0001. The date format is RFC 3339 with the following relaxations:
  • If the time zone offset is omitted then the timezone configuration variable value is used. This has the effect of always rendering the date as written irrespective of the timezone value.
  • If the time is omitted then the time 00:00:00 is used.
  • A space character separator (instead of the letter T) between the date and the time is allowed.

Examples with timezone = "+13:00":

Front matter date value      Translated to
______________________________________________________
1979-05-27T07:32:00+02:00    1979-05-27T07:32:00+02:00
1979-05-27T07:32:00          1979-05-27T07:32:00+13:00
1979-05-27 07:32:00          1979-05-27T07:32:00+13:00
1979-05-27                   1979-05-27T00:00:00+13:00
______________________________________________________

In TOML headers the date can be specified as a quoted string or an unquoted date/time.

description
A brief summary of the document. If not specified description defaults to the content up to the first <!--more--> tag or blank if there is no <!--more--> tag. The <!--more--> tag must appear alone on a separate line. The description is processed as Markdown.
draft
If set to true then the document will not be processed. This can be overridden with the build and serve command -drafts option. Defaults to false.
id
A general purpose document identifier that is unique across all documents within a site. Used in situations requiring a unique document ID.
  • Non-blank id values must be unique within a site (an error occurs if two or more published documents have the same id value).
  • If a document has no explicit id value then the default value is determined by the id configuration variable.
layout
Overrides the document's default layout template.
permalink
Sets the document permalink value, overriding the permalink configuration value.
tags
A list of document tags. Examples:
# TOML
tags = ["foo foo valve", "qux", "baz"]

# YAML
tags: [foo foo valve, qux, baz]
templates
Overrides the templates configuration value. Setting it to * will ensure the document undergoes template expansion; setting it to a blank string will suppress template expansion.
slug
The slug replaces the document file name in generated build paths and URLs. The file name extension is left unchanged.
title
The document title. If not specified title defaults the document file name stripped of the date prefix (if there is one), with hyphens replaced by spaces, then capitalized.
user
user is a user defined key/value map. It is merged with the lower precedence user configuration variable and assigned to the .user document variable.

Document variables

Document variables are a combination of document front matter variables, document configuration variables and synthesized variables. They are used in layout and index page HTML templates and in text templates. Front matter variables take precedence over configuration variables.

Template variables are Go strings unless otherwise noted.

.author
author front matter value.
.body
The document body rendered as HTML.
.description
The document description front matter value rendered as HTML.
.shortdate, .mediumdate, .longdate
These are synthesised document publication date strings, formatted using the shortdate, mediumdate and longdate configuration variables respectively and rendered in the configuration timezone.
.date
date front matter value (time.Time type).
.id
id front matter value.
.layout
layout front matter value.
.modtime
Source document content file modification date and time (time.Time type).
.next, .prev
The next and previous document URLs in primary index order. .prev is nil in the first document, .next is nil in the last document.
.permalink
permalink front matter value.
.slug
slug front matter value.
.url
Synthesized document URL.
.tags
An iterable list of document tags. Each item contains the variable .tag (the tag) and .url (the tag index URL).
.templates
templates configuration variable.
.title
title front matter value.
.urlprefix
urlprefix configuration value.
.user
This key/value map is synthesized by merging the (higher precedence) document front matter user value with the document's user configuration variable.

Document tags

A document tag is a keyword or phrase used to categorise a document in some way.

Hindsite can create tag indexes linked to per-tag paginated lists of documents.

Document tags are assigned using the front matter tags variable. A document can have multiple tags.

Templates

Hindsite uses Go templates to build HTML build webpages and to inject dynamic content into content files. A template contains {{ and }} delimited data evaluations and control structures which are expanded with document variable values.

There are two sets of templates, HTML templates and Text templates. Each template file contributes one or more named templates (the file itself plus any nested template definitions within the file).

A file's template name is its file name relative to the template directory with the slash path separator. For example:

Template directory:   C:\blog\template
Template file:        C:\blog\template\posts\layout.html   
Template name:        posts/layout.html

Text templates

Text templates are Go text templates. They are optional and are used to preprocess content files.

All .txt files in the template directory contribute to the set of named text templates.

HTML templates

Go HTML templates are used to transform documents into HTML webpages and to create index HTML webpages.

All .html files in the site template directory contribute to the set of named HTML templates. The following HTML template files have special significance:

layout.html

Templates with the file name layout.html are used to generate content document webpages.

Layouts are rendered with the document's document template variables.

A site can have one or more layout templates. The selected layout template is the one closest to the content document on the corresponding template directory path (but this can be overridden using the document front matter layout value). These conventions allow document layouts to be assigned per directory and per document.

docs.html

The docs.html template generates a paginated document index page. The presence of a docs.html template file specifies that the corresponding content directory is indexed.

docs.html templates are rendered with the following template variables:

.docs
An iterable list of index page documents. Each list item contains a set of document template variables.
.count
The total number of documents in the index.
.page.number
The page number.
.page.url
The page URL.
.page.prev,.page.next, .page.first, .page.last
These items include the page .number and .url of the previous, next, first and last index pages. For example .page.prev.number is the page number (1…) of the previous document index page. .page.prev is nil on the first last index page, .page.next is nil on the last last index page.
.urlprefix
The urlprefix configuration value.
.user
The index configuration user key/value map.

tags.html

The optional tags.html index template is used to build a tags.html tags index webpage. If it is not present the tags index files are not built. tags.html templates are rendered with the following template variables:

.tags
An iterable list, each list item contains:
.tag
The tag.
.url
The URL of of the tag's document index.
.count
The number of documents with this tag.
.urlprefix
The urlprefix configuration value.
.user
The index configuration user key/value map.

Indexes

The Hindsite build command generates optional paginated document and document tag index files. Multiple indexes are supported — each folder in the content directory can have its own document and tag index.

A document index is a paginated list of documents.

A tag index is a list of document tags, each tag in the index is linked to a tag-specific document index.

Document and tag indexes are built with HTML templates.

The following HTML index files are built for each index:

docs-1.html, docs-2.html …
Paginated document index files. The number of documents per index page is set by the paginate configuration variable. These files are rendered with the corresponding docs.html template.
tags.html
A list of document tags linked to paginated per-tag document index files in the tags subdirectory. tags.html is rendered with the corresponding tags.html template.
tags/<tag>-1.html, tags/<tag>-2.html …
Paginated per-tag document index files. The number of documents per index page is set by the paginate configuration variable. These files are rendered with the corresponding docs.html template.

Example indexes

The built-in blog template generates document and tag indexes for documents in the content/posts directory. It does this because the corresponding template directory (template/posts) contains docs.html and tags.html template files. The index webpages are written to the build/indexes/posts directory:

├── build/                    # Site build directory
:   :
│   └── indexes/              # Site indexes
│       └── posts/            # Indexes for `content/posts`
│           docs-1.html       # Documents index page 1 (built with `docs.html` template)
│           docs-2.html       # Documents index page 2 (built with `docs.html` template)
│           └── tags/         # Tags indexes
│               tags.html     # Tags index (built with `tags.html` template)
│               lorem-1.html  # `lorem` tag index page 1 (built with `docs.html` template)
:                 :
├── content/                  # Site content directory
:   :
│   └── posts/                # Indexed documents
:
└── template/                 # Site template directory
    :
    └── posts/
        docs.html             # Documents index template
        tags.html             # Tags index template

Build paths

A document's build path is the file path of its generated web page.

The following examples assume that the content document path is /posts/foo.md and the document publication date is 11-Mar-2022:

permalink             slug      Build path
________________________________________________________________
                                /posts/foo.html 
                      bar       /posts/bar.html 
/posts/%y/%m/%d/%f              /posts/2022/03/11/foo.html 
/posts/%y/%m/%d/%f    bar       /posts/2022/03/11/bar.html 
/posts/%y-%m-%d/%p/             /posts/2022-03-11/foo/index.html 
/posts/%y-%m-%d/%p/   bar       /posts/2022-03-11/bar/index.html 
/index.html                     /index.html
/index.html           bar       /index.html
________________________________________________________________

URLs

URLs are used to link webpages, they occur in documents and HTML templates. URLs are either external (references to off-site resources) or internal (references to resources within the site).

The different URL types are absolute, absolute with current schema, root relative and page relative. Examples:

http://yourdomain.com/images/example.png    # absolute
//yourdomain.com/images/example.png         # absolute with current schema
/images/example.png                         # root-relative
images/example.png                          # page-relative

Internal URLs should be root-relative or page-relative. Root-relative URLs are recommended because they remain the same regardless of the file's location. For this reason, HTML templates should always employ root-relative URLs. Root-relative URLs are also independent of the host domain name.

URL synthesis

Hindsite automatically prefixes all root-relative URLs with the urlprefix configuration value. This allows a site to be rooted anywhere on the web server without having to hard-wire server paths into document URLs.

Document URLs are synthesized by prefixing the webpage build path (relative to the build directory) with the urlprefix. File path separators are translated to slash characters.

For example, if the build directory is C:\mysite\build and the generated webpage is C:\mysite\build\posts\foo.html then:

If you are deploying to a web server subdirectory then you need to set the urlprefix configuration variable to ensure that URLs are rooted correctly. For example, if you are deploying to the server directory http://example.com/blog you will need to set urlprefix to either /blog (to generate root-relative URLs) or http://example.com/blog (to generate absolute URLs).

To bypass urlprefix injection use absolute or page-relative URLs.

It is recommended that document path names only contain lower case alphanumeric, hyphen and period characters. This ensures consistent, readable URLs without ugly encodings. This convention is not enforced but does generate validity check warnings.

Hindsite synthesizes root-relative navigation URLs and assigns them to HTML template variables. For example:

Vocabulary

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