Clean URLs from pages in a custom Jekyll folder

Question

I'm building a Jekyll site made of static pages (e.g. nothing in the _posts directory), and rather than keeping each page in the root directory, I'd like to keep it in a custom pages directory (for organization's sake).

However, I don't want this structure reflected in my URLs, so in my _config.yml I have:

permalink: /:title

With this configuration, my desired URL would be site.com/pagename, but I don't get a rendered page unless I hit site.com/pages/pagename.html.

Could anyone help me configure my build to achieve the former? Thanks!

score 1 · Answer 1 · answered Aug 19 '13 at 19:00

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Have you tried adding YAML Front Matter to these static pages? For example:

---
title: "pagetitle"
---

This way, Jekyll should recognize it as a Page (instead of a StaticPage) and would use your permalink configuration.

answered Aug 19 '13 at 19:00

Carlos Agarie

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Yep, I did this, but still no dice. – Jon Aug 19 '13 at 19:13

score 0 · Accepted Answer · answered Aug 19 '13 at 08:12

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These are static pages so the entry in _config.yml is going to be ignored.

From the sounds of it you will need to create a URL rewrite rule. How to do this will depend on the web server that is servering up the pages.

answered Aug 19 '13 at 08:12

RobertKenny

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This is the route I ended up going. Thanks! – Jon Aug 24 '13 at 21:58

Clean URLs from pages in a custom Jekyll folder

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