Handle uglyURLs ambiguity in Permalink

[ominty]

Link to repo - this includes the following:

I find this working: create a /section/index.md in a section and it renders to /section/index.html in that same section in the public folder.

index.md or foo.md is content and metadata for the single pages,

I like to have an index-file in each content subdirectory as every webserver I know will deliver this when a user uses an address like http://domain.tld/section/.
All works fine so far.

I use the following structure:

.
├── config.toml
├── archetypes
├── content
|   ├── _index.md
|   ├── womo
|   |   ├── index.md
|   |   ├── fahrgestell.md
|   |   ├── aufbau.md
|   |   ├── einrichtung.md
|   |   └── {more pages}.md
|   ├── hund
|   ├── blog
|   └── kontakt
├── static
├── data
├── layouts
└── themes

and this renders to

.
└── public
    ├── index.html
    ├── womo.html
    ├── womo
    |   ├── index.html
    |   ├── fahrgestell.html
    |   ├── aufbau.html
    |   ├── einrichtung.html
    |   └── {more pages}.html
    ├── hund.html
    ├── hund
    ├── blog.html
    ├── blog
    ├── kontakt.html
    └── kontakt

which is ok so far - and as expected following @bep 's definition.

Now I use the following code to produce a sidenav within the womo section.

<ul> 
            {{ $act_section := .Section}}                  
            {{ range where .Site.Pages "Section" $act_section }}       
        	<li><a href="{{ .RelPermalink }}">{{- .LinkTitle -}}</a></li>    
            {{ end }}      
</ul>

It ends up like this:

<li><a href="../womo.html">Einführung</a></li>                   
<li><a href="../womo/fahrgestell.html">Fahrgestell</a></li>            
<li><a href="../womo/aufbau.html">Aufbau</a></li>            
<li><a href="../womo/einrichtung.html">Einrichtung</a></li>

which obviously is wrong since the first line should be like

<li><a href="../womo/index.html">Einführung</a></li>

So at least for creating the menue index.md is NOT treated as content and metadata for a single page.

Hugo uses linktitle from the frontmatter of /section/index.md but the created link instead points to /section.html which gives a simple list but not the content of /section/index.md.

That's why I used to rename /section/index.md to something else like /section/intro.md in the snapshots above and everything worked fine

[bep]

The repo you link to does not look like the site you describe (no motorhome).

[ominty]

sorry, but all the site is in german.
motorhome would be "womo"
dogs would be "hund"
contact would be "kontakt"

I hope this will solve this - I translated the excerpts for the convenience of the readers as the support forum is in english. But translate all of the site - I hope this will not be necessary ...

[ominty]

I updated the structure above to match the actual repo. Readme.md is also updated.
Sorry for the confusion.

[bep]

OK, I see it now, but I'm not sure how to solve it. Maybe others will.

There is an uglyURLs ambiguity here, but we seem to have gotten it right when we wrote the file to disk, so ...

• The page starts out with the URL "womo/index.html"
• The logic to make that ugly "womo/index.html" => "womo.html"

[bep]

That said, a workaround that should work for you is to put a url override in your womo/index.md:

url = "womo/index.html"

[ominty]

Thanks - I did not know about that override - will test it.

update: and it works, the only thing is:
url = "/womo/index.html"

I tested on server and from local storage. Thanks again.

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