Misc case issues for URLs

[joneskoo]

I think there may be a regression for the URLs of uppercase tags.

In #491 urlize was changed to lowercase URLs. In #557 I think this may have been reverted?

Now when I added tag links to my post list page:

<a href="/tags/{{ . | urlize }}">#{{ . }}</a>

The links were broken as URLs come out as mixed case (contain uppercase letters). As a workaround, I can do this and it works.

<a href="/tags/{{ . | urlize | lower }}">#{{ . | lower }}</a>

I don't think most themes use | lower.

cc/ @bep @spf13 who participated in both issues.

[jeffreycentex]

It's not just tags that are broken. I am migrating a blog over from Jekyll that has the url: specified with uppercase characters. The main index page references the URL the proper way (with uppercase characters), but is generating the files with lower case letters. Thus my URL's break...

[gitgrimbo]

I think I am seeing a similar issue.

I have a folder on disk like the following (part1=lowercase, PART2=uppercase):

content/posts/part1/PART2

This folder has an index.md that references images in the same folder using a relative link, e.g. ![](999.jpg)

http://localhost:1313/**part1/PART2/** fails to load.
http://localhost:1313/**part1/part2/** loads ok, but is not the right case compared to what is on disk.

The relative URL to the image for the page that loads resolves to:

http://localhost:1313/**part1/part2**/999.jpg

This will not load in the browser running the hugo server. I assume because it's the wrong case and hugo is using a different resource-serving mechanism that is case-sensitive.

http://localhost:1313/**part1/PART2**/999.jpg loads ok.

I would like hugo to leave the case alone when handling URLs.

[moorereason]

Try setting the following option in your site config:

disablePathToLower = true

[gitgrimbo]

disablePathToLower = true does not work for me. The URLs are still changed to lowercase.

[spf13]

@gitgrimbo What OS & file system are you using? Do you this site source publicly available so we can investigate further?

[gitgrimbo]

WIndows 7 and NTFS.

I lower-cased all my files/folders and flattened the content folder tree after my issues and have since been ok.

And I have a hunch that I also changed all the names of my md files to index.md, and put them in a folder of the same name, and that helped. Especially with the relative paths to images.

E.g. from

/content/article1.md
/content/article2.md

to

/content/article1/index.md
/content/article2/index.md

The TL;DR is probably that I used the wrong mixture of uglyurls and relative paths - I did a couple of tests and the results are below.

---

Test 1

With this test I can't replicate my issue. The test is:

/config.toml

uglyurls = false
disablePathToLower = true

/content/test1/index.md

{
    "title": "test1",
    "description": "",
    "tags": [ "test1" ],
    "date": "2016-05-26"
}

![](./TEST2/HUGO-UP.png)

![](./TEST2/hugo-low.png)

/content/test1/TEST2/index.md

{
    "title": "TEST2",
    "description": "",
    "tags": [ "TEST2" ],
    "date": "2016-05-26"
}

![](./HUGO-UP.png)

![](./hugo-low.png)

/content/test1/TEST2/hogo-low.png - A test png.

/content/test1/TEST2/HUGO-UP.png - A test png.

Both the above pages work, linking to the images correctly.

Test 2

This test uses file names that are not index.md.

E.g.

/content/test1/test1.md

This produces the following article link from my post list:

• http://localhost:1313/test1/test1/

Browsing to this page fails to show the images. The HTML source is:

<p><img src="./TEST2/HUGO-UP.png" alt="" /></p>

<p><img src="./TEST2/hugo-low.png" alt="" /></p>

which is correct, but which results in the following absolute URL:

• http://localhost:1313/test1/test1/TEST2/HUGO-UP.png

which is incorrect (there is an extra test1 URL segment).

Test 3

Using uglyurls = true, Test 2 works, with the post URL being:

• http://localhost:1313/test1/test1.html

and thus the relative paths to the images are correct.

[bep]

Note/Update: This issue is marked as stale, and I may have said something earlier about "opening a thread on the discussion forum". Please don't.

If this is a bug and you can still reproduce this error on the latest release or the master branch, please reply with all of the information you have about it in order to keep the issue open.

If this is a feature request, and you feel that it is still relevant and valuable, please tell us why.

[xofyarg]

Hi @bep, I can probably provide a test case which is relevant:

System
OSX 10.11.6 with Extended filesystem, case insensitive.

$ hugo version

Hugo Static Site Generator v0.19 darwin/amd64 BuildDate: 2017-03-06T10:44:09Z

$ cat config.yaml

baseurl: "http://127.0.0.1:1313"
languagecode: en-us
title: a test title

theme: test
disablePathToLower: true

MetaDataFormat: yaml

$ cat themes/test/layouts/_default/list.html

list:
{{ range .Data.Pages }}
{{ .RelPermalink }}
{{ .Content }}
{{ end }}

$ find content

content
content/TestFile.md
content/Type
content/Type/TestDir
content/Type/TestDir/index.md

$ hugo && cat public/index.html

list:

/TestFile/
<p>a test file post</p>


/type/testdir/
<p>a test dir post</p>

As we could see, the .RelPermalink is rendered without case information on path /Type/TestDir/.

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