Suppressing 'index.html' from page.url

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I have a source structure like this:

_collection
  some-document
    index.md
    subpage.md
    subpage2.md

I want it to generate this output structure:

_site
  some-document
    index.html
    subpage.html
    subpage2.html

This works fine, using a collection permalink of :path, but I have one additional requirement… when linking to some-document's index, I want the index.html suffix to be omitted, so that the canonical paths to the pages above become:

/some-document/
/some-document/subpage.html
/some-document/subpage2.html

Is this possible? I’ve tried various permuations of the permalink variables but the only thing I’ve found which preserves the directory structure of the source is /:path:output_ext (neither of which are documented in https://jekyllrb.com/docs/permalinks/, but which are recommended in examples).

(I’m quite happy to write Ruby code and set the permalink programmatically, if there’s a way to do that.)

2

so if you have just :path and you make a link to /some-document/ that does not work?

to be clear, some-document is a directory? or a document? seems like it is supposed to be some-directory.

And it looks like you want a pretty url for only the top index file but you want the other ones to have subpagex.html? to get both a pretty url for the one document but an ugly one for the other files I think you will need to specify the permalink in some of the front matter of the files. If you want to do them all the same - all pretty without extensions it should be fairly easy.

3

Linking to /some-document/ already works — the web server’s already configured to serve index.html in these situations. What I’m talking about is controlling the links that Jekyll generates to the documents; i.e. the contents of page.url.

All these pages are part of a single logical document, which is why they’re grouped into a single directory: there’s the index page, plus assorted subpages.

What I want is for Jekyll generates the page.url for the subpages, I want the document’s index page to be /some-document/, while the subpages are referred to in full.

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so /:path:output_ext does what you want except for the index page that you want to be /some-document/ right?

Have you tried manually setting the permalink for the index file in its front matter? I think that may be the best way to do it, since you want two different schemes within one particular place.

5

Why don’t you just use | replace: 'index.html', '' on the output of the link? That seems like the simplest solution to me.

6

I’ve got a lot of these; I’d really rather not have to edit all of them…

Anyway, sorted. Although it’s more complicated than it should be because while :path is an (undocumented) permalink variable, there isn’t one for just the directory part.

module Jekyll
    class ShortifyGenerator < Jekyll::Generator
        def generate(site)
            site.collections["pages"].docs.each do |page|
                if page.url.end_with?("index.html")
                    page.data["permalink"] = page.url[0..-11]
                end
            end
        end
    end
end
7

@davidgiven,

I’m a total Jekyll & Ruby newb but this looks to be exactly what I need!

Where do I put this module?

Thank you :pray:
Joe