RSS feed doesn't produce valid links

[jmichelgarcia]

Hi folks 👋,

Looking at the example site RSS, I see the produced URL (under the link attribute) is not a compliant url (it's missing the base url).

Is this expected? I will keep investigating on my end in the meantime.

<title>Goldydocs – Docsy Blog</title>
<link>/blog/</link>
<description>Recent content in Docsy Blog on Goldydocs</description>
<generator>Hugo -- gohugo.io</generator>
<atom:link href="/blog/index.xml" rel="self" type="application/rss+xml"/>
<item>
<title>Blog: Easy documentation with Docsy</title>
<link>/blog/2018/10/06/easy-documentation-with-docsy/</link>
<pubDate>Sat, 06 Oct 2018 00:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
<guid>/blog/2018/10/06/easy-documentation-with-docsy/</guid>
<description>

[fekete-robert]

It looks the same on the main site as well: https://www.docsy.dev/blog/index.xml

[jmichelgarcia]

Am I missing something and those links are semantically correct?
Or are you saying this is broken everywhere?

[fekete-robert]

I'm not using RSS anywhere, so I'm not sure about it, but looking at the xml of other Docsy-based sites (like https://github.com/istio/istio.io/blob/master/layouts/blog/rss.xml) I'd say it's broken everywhere. It seems that the istio site uses a custom layout file that explicitly adds the baseurl: https://github.com/istio/istio.io/blob/master/layouts/blog/rss.xml

[jmichelgarcia]

What's funny is that on hugo serve I get: <link>//localhost:1313/en/docs...</link>
But when serving from Render I get: <link>/en/docs/....</link>

[jmichelgarcia]

Might be my baseUrl setting, having a look at the docs and trying a few things out.

[aimeeu]

That's been broken for over a year... or at least that's when it was brought to my attention. I played around with the baseURL setting but never did get the RSS links to work. If you find a solution, please share!

[jmichelgarcia]

My baseURL was set to "/", changing it to the correct domain solved my problem. Something like
baseURL="https://domain.com/"

Trailing slash is important.

[aimeeu]

Hmmm... I tried that approach a while ago but found that messed up the generated hyperlinks (ref shortcode) for local and also the deploy preview in Netlify. IIRC, all the generated links used the baseURL (hard-coded domain) instead of using the env URL (localhost or the url generated by Netlify preview). Is that still the case?

[jmichelgarcia]

I'm not seeing problems.

My local config uses baseURL = "/"
My PR config uses (I use Render) env HUGO_BASEURL="${RENDER_EXTERNAL_URL}/" hugo --gc --minify
My Prod config uses baseURL = "https://domain.com/"