[BUG] favicon's links not match the full baseURL

[novrain]

Describe the bug
favicon's links not match the full baseURL

• Hugo Version : 0.112.1
• Theme Version : latest

Steps to reproduce the behavior:

build with baseURL param.

hugo --gc --baseURL http://a.com/base

index.html:

<link rel="canonical" href="http://a.com/base/">
<link crossorigin="anonymous" href="/base/assets/css/stylesheet.423bd960c236740ff23ffa9df8188a5393264504058af5c3c9414fd4643be13b.css" integrity="sha256-QjvZYMI2dA/yP/qd&#43;BiKU5MmRQQFivXDyUFP1GQ74Ts=" rel="preload stylesheet" as="style">

<!--wrong url prefix, should be http://a.com/base/assets/favicon.ico -->
<link rel="icon" href="http://a.com/assets/favicon.ico">
<link rel="icon" type="image/png" sizes="16x16" href="http://a.com/assets/favicon.ico">
<link rel="icon" type="image/png" sizes="32x32" href="http://a.com/assets/favicon.ico">
<link rel="apple-touch-icon" href="http://a.com/assets/favicon.ico">
<link rel="mask-icon" href="http://a.com/assets/favicon.ico">


<meta name="theme-color" content="#2e2e33">
<meta name="msapplication-TileColor" content="#2e2e33">
<link rel="alternate" type="application/rss+xml" href="http://a.com/base/index.xml">
<link rel="alternate" type="application/json" href="http://a.com/base/index.json">
<link rel="alternate" hreflang="en" href="http://a.com/base/">
<link rel="alternate" hreflang="zh" href="http://a.com/base/zh/">

Expected behavior:
favicon's link should match the baseURL

[novrain]

@adityatelange
Sorry to make you confused.

I mean if I set the baseURL to be http://a.com/base, the following part of html pages generated by paperMod:

<link rel="icon" href="http://a.com/assets/favicon.ico">
<link rel="icon" type="image/png" sizes="16x16" href="http://a.com/assets/favicon.ico">
<link rel="icon" type="image/png" sizes="32x32" href="http://a.com/assets/favicon.ico">

should be:

<link rel="icon" href="http://a.com/base/assets/favicon.ico">
<link rel="icon" type="image/png" sizes="16x16" href="http://a.com/base/assets/favicon.ico">
<link rel="icon" type="image/png" sizes="32x32" href="http://a.com/base/assets/favicon.ico">

Cause sometimes, there are multi-sub-sites under the same domian in sub directories.

root-
       -siteA
       -siteB

[ahogen]

favicon's link should match the baseURL

Maybe this wording is what confused the other user, but I get what you mean. The favicon URL should be relative to or based on baseURL, which may have any number of paths after the FQDN.

I encountered this as well with Git Lab Pages because the base URL is of the form https://<username>.gitlab.io/<project>/.

[GiacomoCortesi]

I just had this same issue deploying on github pages, I don't think it's a bug though.
I believe in your case you are specifying the favicons like below:

  assets:
    favicon: "/assets/favicon.ico"

The starting slash makes the difference!

If you do put the starting slash then what you get is: http://a.com/assets/favicon.ico with the base part of the URL removed.
If you do not put the starting slash then what you get is exactly what you want, and the additional base part of the URL is preserved -> http://a.com/base/assets/favicon.ico.

Hope it helps!

[ahogen]

The starting slash makes the difference!

Indeed it does, thanks for this tip! I've removed the first slash and fixed my config.