Question
Subpages of Jekyll-powered static site give 404 on app platform?
- Posted on January 4, 2021
- DigitalOcean App PlatformJekyll
Asked by JaanusK
I deployed a static Jekyll site on DO App Platform. The site has a number of pages and subpages like /product, /product/product1, /product/product2 etc.
The problem: while the /product page and other top-level pages render great, /product/product1 returns 404 on DigitalOcean app platform, while it works great in local testing.
The permalink is specified like this in product/product1.md YAML front matter:
permalink: "/product/product1"
I should also note that I didn’t use the DO example project to set up the Jekyll project. DO autogenerated everything when I just pointed it to my Jekyll project branch on Github. Everything else seems to work great, just having a problem with some specific subpages.
Is there anything I need to change in my project to get the subpages to render correctly and not return 404?
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👋🏼 @JaanusK
When running
bundle exec jekyll build, is/product/product1generated asproduct/product1.html?If that is the case, what’s happening is that when App Platform gets a request for
/product/product1, it looks for either a file named exactlyproduct/product1orproduct/product1/index.html—none of which exist.Mapping
/product/product1to/product/product1.htmlis something that we’re considering however it is not supported yet.One solution could be to rename the subpages from
product/product1.mdtoproduct/product1/index.md. This will generate files like/product/product1/index.htmlwhich will work with App Platform. Or, you could run a bash script afterjekyll buildthat goes around and relocates subpages toindex.htmlfiles under subdirectories.The other option is to deploy the site as a Service instead of a Static Site. I realize this isn’t very ideal but the built-in Jekyll webserver should be able to handle the permalinks properly without making any changes to the source.
Thank you. Your answer put me on the right track, and I got it fixed. You are right, that
/product/product1was generated as/product/product1.htmlin the site output. The fix for me was to update the permalinks in the metadata of each page so that instead ofpermalink: "/product/product1", I would havepermalink: "/product/product1/"(one slash added). This made them generated as /product/product1/index.html, so that /product/product1 link (with or without the slash) also works now.