how to adjust the HUGO_BASE_URL?

[Adeljoo]

I want to use another url instead of localhost in production, how can I do that? my URL starts with https instead of http and it does not work.

[gavinr]

I think it honors the baseURL property of your hugo config.toml - have you tried changing that?

[znegva]

The image seems not to honor the baseURL setting from config-toml

I got it working by providing the Environment variable (HUGO_BASEURL) by:

docker run --rm -P --volume $(PWD):/src --volume ${PWD}/public:/output --env HUGO_BASEURL=https://mycoolwebsite.com jojomi/hugo

I think the baseURL from config.toml should be used if no explicit environment variable is set!

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I think this could be achieved by pimping https://github.com/jojomi/docker-hugo/blob/master/run.sh a bit, just pass argument --baseURL="$HUGO_BASEURL" if environment-variable HUGO_BASEURL is set.

I think the same problem exists for themes defined in config.toml, but not provided as environment-variable.

[jojomi]

@znegva Thanks for your analysis which I think is correct. Would you be able and willing to supply a PR with a patch for this?

[znegva]

Sorry @jojomi , I dont have much time left for side projects (and testing ;) )

But it should be something like this:

#!/bin/sh

WATCH="${HUGO_WATCH:=false}"
SLEEP="${HUGO_REFRESH_TIME:=-1}"
HUGO_DESTINATION="${HUGO_DESTINATION:=/output}"
echo "HUGO_WATCH:" $WATCH
echo "HUGO_REFRESH_TIME:" $HUGO_REFRESH_TIME
echo "HUGO_THEME:" $HUGO_THEME
echo "HUGO_BASEURL" $HUGO_BASEURL
echo "ARGS" $@

HUGO=/usr/local/sbin/hugo
echo "Hugo path: $HUGO"

BASEURL_ARG="--baseURL=${HUGO_BASEURL}"
if [ "$HUGO_BASEURL" = "" ]; then
   BASEURL_ARG = ""
fi

THEME_ARG="--theme=${HUGO_THEME}"
if [ "$HUGO_THEME" = "" ]; then
   THEME_ARG = ""
fi

while [ true ]
do
    if [[ $HUGO_WATCH != 'false' ]]; then
	    echo "Watching..."
        $HUGO server --watch=true --source="/src" $THEME_ARG --destination="$HUGO_DESTINATION" $BASEURL_ARG --bind="0.0.0.0" "$@" || exit 1
    else
	    echo "Building one time..."
        $HUGO --source="/src" $THEME_ARG --destination="$HUGO_DESTINATION" $BASEURL_ARG "$@" || exit 1
    fi

    if [[ $HUGO_REFRESH_TIME == -1 ]]; then
        exit 0
    fi
    echo "Sleeping for $HUGO_REFRESH_TIME seconds..."
    sleep $SLEEP
done

[Adeljoo]

If it's not late, I change the --baseURL="$HUGO_BASEURL" in the Dockerfile and also in the config.toml, then was good to go.