Renaming content subdir makes `Serve` stop working?

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I have a /content/loose_stuff directory in my Zola project that I want to mv loose_stuff/ posts/ but when I do so, zola serve stops working? I can fix it by just mv posts/ loose_stuff/ but I don’t want a loose_stuff directory hanging around permanently in my zola site.

I’ve tried:

  • reading over all my template and content files for any hardcoded links to loose_stuff but haven’t found any.
  • running zola check
  • zola build also stops working

Using Zola version 0.16.0
The terminal output says

Error: Failed to serve the site
Error: Failed to render page '/home/moffwings/Desktop/Projects/zola-site/content/home.md'
Error: Reason: Failed to render 'page.html' (error happened in a parent template)
Error: Reason: Function call 'get_url' failed
Error: Reason: `get_url`: could not resolve URL for link `@/loose_stuff/_index.md` not found.
2

Is a restart of zola serve working? In theory it should reload everything on changes but who knows

3

The problem persists through restarting zola serve and restarting my computer unfortunately.

4

Can you paste a tree output of the content dir? I’m not sure i’m getting it then

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running tree from content dir

.
├── home.md
├── _index.md
└── posts
    ├── about zola.md
    ├── buffer.md
    └── _index.md
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Well there’s no loose_stuff in that directory so that normal. In that case, you need to change your template to refer to @/posts/_index.md

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Oof, I figured out what happened: It’s easy to miss hardcoded links to stuff like loose_stuff when you only manually look over your code.

Something that helped me is using a search tool like rg (ripgrep) with rg loose_stuff to find that I did have a hardcoded path to fix. :woozy_face:

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Created a login and joined to upvote this comment. “ripgrep” really helped to find out the loose end.

Used “relative paths” to images and “index.md” files instead of “@”, and things are working for me.

Thanks!