RSS output clobbers HTML output if url in front matter of section page includes a file extension

[AesaraB]

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What version of Hugo are you using (hugo version)?

$ hugo version
hugo v0.104.3+extended linux/amd64 BuildDate=unknown

Does this issue reproduce with the latest release?

This is the latest release.

Issue

When setting a url in front matter, such as url = '/section/test', the output file is /section/test/index.html. However, when configuration uglyURLs = true is set, the output file remains /section/test/index.html, instead of /section/test.html which is consistent with other ugly url output files.

This behaviour may cause issues with certain web server configurations.

Update: This issue only occurs for list pages.

[bep]

What happens if you do url = '/section/test.html'?

To me the url attribute is a way to be explicit about the URL to use which would also be a way to override any global url setting (e.g. uglyURLs ...).

[AesaraB]

Hi, sorry for not putting this into the original post -- I've already tried this and unfortunately it does not work.

[AesaraB]

Wait apologies, it fails in a different way. Let me look into this a bit more

[AesaraB]

Now this is interesting, on single pages appending the url value with .html appears to work, but on list pages it renders an RSS template. Foregoing the extension the page renders just fine with the appropriate html template.

[jmooring]

@AesaraB

but on list pages it renders an RSS template

I am unable to reproduce this behavior.

site configuration

uglyURLs = true
disableKinds = ['RSS','sitemap','taxonomy','term']  # Disabled to simplify rendered site

content directory

content/
├── posts/
│   ├── _index.md
│   ├── post-1.md
│   └── post-2.md
└── _index.md

content/posts/_index.md

+++
title = 'Posts'
date = 2022-11-03T18:56:29-07:00
draft = false
url = '/posts/test.html'
+++

rendered site

public/
├── posts/
│   ├── post-1.html
│   ├── post-2.html
│   └── test.html
└── index.html

I think this is working as designed, and the issue should be closed.

[AesaraB]

@jmooring

This issue is no long present after putting disabledKinds = ['RSS'] in configuration and setting the url key for a list page to end in .html. Can you remove RSS from the disabledKinds and try this again? Thanks

[jmooring]

Can you remove RSS from the disabledKinds and try this again?

Sure. The result:

public/
├── posts/
│   ├── post-1.html
│   ├── post-2.html
│   └── test.html
├── index.html
└── index.xml

Try it:

git clone --single-branch -b hugo-github-issue-10393 https://github.com/jmooring/hugo-testing hugo-github-issue-10393
cd hugo-github-issue-10393
rm -rf public/ && hugo && tree public

[AesaraB]

If that works for you then there may be an issue with my build. See the output html files here disabledKinds.zip