remove the "/" from the page URL

[tomjoht]

I'm making my jekyll site relative, and designed to be deployed in a subdirectory off of a domain. This poses some problems with Jekyll-Search's ability to format correct links in the results.

When I click on a search result, the URL prepends a forward slash, like this:

/pageresult.html

As a result, the page doesn't load because I have my jekyll site in a directory such as domain/folder/subfolder/

When I click /pageresult.html, it goes to this:

domain/pageresult.html

instead of:

domain/folder/subfolder/pageresult.html

How can I remove the "/" before the page result? If the result would simply go to pageresult.html, it would load the page.

In the script, the searchResultTemplate shows this:

   searchResultTemplate: '<li><a href="{url}" title="{{page.title}}">{title}</a></li>',

I tried to determine how {url} gets populated from jekyll-search.js, but I couldn't see how to apply any kind of filter to remove the "/". Can you help? Thanks,

Tom

[christian-fei]

Hello,
I will look into it, thanks for submitting.
Could you pass me a sample jekyll _config.yml plz?

[tomjoht]

Sure, do you want me to email that file to you? I don't have any permalink setting in my configuration file, since I'm not using permalinks in this project. Everything is coded with a relative URL (because the same project might be pushed into different server folders or domains). As such, I don't think the configuration file will have any particularly interesting information.

[tomjoht]

Christian, I'm just following up on this issue. Did you have any solutions for me? Thanks.

[christian-fei]

Hello,
i'm sorry for letting you wait.
In thery you just need to set the baseurl property in _config.yml of your jekyll site, the url is something the plugin does not handle (or know what it is actually).

As a matter of face, you can check it out on this very example of this repository

Please tell me how it goes,

thanks

[tomjoht]

Thanks. But I'm not using the baseurl for my Jekyll site. I have a
technical documentation site, and I shift around the directory where it's
published. If I were to specify a baseurl in the configuration file, it
would lock me into always publishing it in that folder. In short,
everything is relative.

I just need to somehow modify the {url} property in the plugin. This is the
problematic part:

searchResultTemplate: '

<a href="{url}"

title="{{page.title}}">{title}

The {url} value that gets inserted has a forward slash, such as
/sample.html instead of just sample.html. How can I remove that forward
slash? You said the url is something the plugin does not handle or know
what it is. Is this url value coming from the page.url from Jekyll's
universal tags?

In other places in my theme, I used this replace filter to get rid of the
slash:

[email protected]
wrote:

Hello,
i'm sorry for letting you wait.
In thery you just need to set the baseurl property in _config.yml of your
jekyll site, the url is something the plugin does not handle (or know what
it is actually).

As a matter of face, you can check it out on this very example of this
repository
https://github.com/christian-fei/Simple-Jekyll-Search/blob/master/_config.yml#L8

Please tell me how it goes,

thanks

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[christian-fei]

Always removing the slash would not be wise.
I will add the option to specify a baseUrl inside the JS plugin, does this make sense?

[christian-fei]

Please check this out and tell me what you think and if it works for you:
https://github.com/christian-fei/Simple-Jekyll-Search#templatemiddleware-function-optional

[tomjoht]

Awesome. Thanks for addressing this issue!

However, I realize now that I'm an idiot. I didn't realize that the {url}
value was set with the search.json file:

"url": "{{ page.url | replace: '/','' }}",

I just added the replace filter there.

This actually fixes my problem. I just didn't communicate the issue very
well, and when I originally looked in the .js for where that url value was
coming from, I couldn't make sense of things. So it turns out this is a
rather easy fix. Thanks so much for your help.

Tom

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On Mon, Aug 10, 2015 at 3:08 PM, christian-fei [email protected]
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Please check this out and tell me what you think and if it works for you:

https://github.com/christian-fei/Simple-Jekyll-Search#templatemiddleware-function-optional

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[christian-fei]

Aaaalright, now it makes sense :)
No problem, glad you're using the plugin!