Changed:

1. Removed site.url from config and made all links depend on site.baseurl instead.

404.md

@@ -3,4 +3,4 @@ layout: default
 title: 404
 ---
 
-This page does not exist. [Go back](/).
+This page does not exist. [Go back]({{ "/" | prepend: site.baseurl | replace: '//', '/' }}).

README.md

@@ -26,6 +26,9 @@ If you want to see the changes before pushing the blog to Github, do a local bui
 1. [`gem install jekyll`](https://jekyllrb.com/docs/installation/#install-with-rubygems)
 2. `gem install jekyll-seo-tag`
 3. (`cd` to the blog directory, then:) `jekyll serve --watch --port 8000`
+4. Go to `http://0.0.0.0:8000/` in your web browser.
+
+*Note: In case you have set a `baseurl` different than `/` in `_config.yml`, go to `http://0.0.0.0:8000/BASEURL/` instead.*
 
 ### Local build using docker
 
@@ -36,7 +39,9 @@ docker run --rm -p 8000:8000 \
   jekyll serve --watch --port 8000
 ```
 
-Replace `LOCATION_OF_YOUR_JEKYLL_BLOG` with the full path of your blog repository. Visit `http://localhost:8000` to access the blog.
+Replace `LOCATION_OF_YOUR_JEKYLL_BLOG` with the full path of your blog repository. Visit `http://localhost:8000/` to access the blog.
+
+*Note: In case you have set a `baseurl` different than `/` in `_config.yml`, go to `http://0.0.0.0:8000/BASEURL/` instead.*
 
 ## Customizing
 
@@ -47,17 +52,20 @@ Edit the `_config.yml` file and set the following variables:
 ```yml
 title: [The title of your blog]
 description: [A short description of your blog's purpose]
-url: [Canonical URL for this blog]
 author:
   name: [Your name]
   email: [Your email address]
   url: [URL of your website]
 
+baseurl: [The base url for this blog.]
+
 paginate: [Number of posts in one paginated section (default: 3)]
 owner: [Your name]
 year: [Current Year]
 ```
 
+*Note: All links in the site are prepended with `baseurl`. Default `baseurl` is `/`. Any other baseurl can be setup like `baseurl: /hacker-blog`, which makes the site available at `http://domain.name/hacker-blog`.*
+
 Additionally, you may choose to set the following optional variables:
 
 ```yml

_config.yml

@@ -1,12 +1,12 @@
 title: Hacker-Blog
 description: "A Jekyll Blog Theme For Hackers"
-url: "https://ashishchaudhary.in/hacker-blog"
 author:
   name: "SomeHacker"
   email: "[email protected]"
   url: "https://ashishchaudhary.in/hacker-blog"
 
 baseurl: /
+
 source: .
 destination: ./_site
 permalink: /:title

_includes/head.html

@@ -5,7 +5,7 @@
 
   <title>{%if page.title %}{{ page.title }}{% else %}{{ site.title }}{% endif %}</title>
 
-  <link rel="stylesheet" href="{%if site.url %}{{ "/css/main.css" | prepend: site.url }}{% else %}{{ "/css/main.css" }}{% endif %}">
+  <link rel="stylesheet" href="{{ "/css/main.css" | prepend: site.baseurl | replace: '//', '/' }}">
 
   <link href="/atom.xml" type="application/atom+xml" rel="alternate" title="ATOM Feed" /> {% seo %}
 </head>

_includes/header.html

@@ -1,6 +1,6 @@
 <header>
   <div>
-    <a href="{%if site.url %}{{ site.url }}{% else %}{{ "/" }}{% endif %}">
+    <a href="{{ "/" | prepend: site.baseurl | replace: '//', '/' }}">
     {% assign owner_first_name = site.owner | split: " " %}
     <h1>{{ owner_first_name[0] | downcase }}@home:~$</h1>
     </a>

_includes/links.html

@@ -1,3 +1,3 @@
-<a href="{%if site.url %}{{ "/archive" | prepend: site.url }}{% else %}{{ "/archive" }}{% endif %}"><h2 class="header-link">Archive</h2></a>
-<a href="{%if site.url %}{{ "/about" | prepend: site.url }}{% else %}{{ "/about" }}{% endif %}"><h2 class="header-link">About</h2></a>
-<a href="{%if site.url %}{{ "/atom.xml" | prepend: site.url }}{% else %}{{ "/atom.xml" }}{% endif %}"><h2 class="header-link">RSS</h3></a>
+<a href="{{ "/archive" | prepend: site.baseurl | replace: '//', '/' }}"><h2 class="header-link">Archive</h2></a>
+<a href="{{ "/about" | prepend: site.baseurl | replace: '//', '/' }}"><h2 class="header-link">About</h2></a>
+<a href="{{ "/atom.xml" | prepend: site.baseurl | replace: '//', '/' }}"><h2 class="header-link">RSS</h2></a>

archive.md

@@ -26,7 +26,11 @@ title: Archive
           <ul>
         {% endif %}
       {% endunless %}
-        <li><time>{{ post.date | date:"%d %b" }} - </time><a href="{{ post.url }}">{{ post.title }}</a></li>
+        <li><time>{{ post.date | date:"%d %b" }} - </time>
+          <a href="{{ post.url | prepend: site.baseurl | replace: '//', '/' }}">
+            {{ post.title }}
+          </a>
+        </li>
     {% endfor %}
     </ul>
 

atom.xml

@@ -6,8 +6,8 @@ layout: null
 <feed xmlns="http://www.w3.org/2005/Atom">
 
  <title>{{ site.title }}</title>
- <link href="{{ site.url }}/atom.xml" rel="self"/>
- <id>{{ site.url }}</id>
+ <link href="{{ "/atom.xml" | prepend: site.baseurl | replace: '//', '/' }}" rel="self"/>
+ <id>{{ site.baseurl }}</id>
  <updated>{{ site.time | date_to_xmlschema }}</updated>
  <author>
    <name>{{ site.author.name }}</name>
@@ -19,8 +19,8 @@ layout: null
 
  <entry>
    <title>{{ post.title }}</title>
-   <link href="{{ site.url }}{{ post.url }}"/>
-   <id>{{ site.url }}{{ post.id }}</id>
+   <link href="{{ post.url | prepend: site.baseurl | replace: '//', '/' }}"/>
+   <id>{{ post.id | prepend: site.baseurl | replace: '//', '/' }}</id>
    <updated>{{ post.date | date_to_xmlschema }}</updated>
    <content type="html">{{ post.content | xml_escape | truncatewords:50 }}</content>
  </entry>

index.html

@@ -5,7 +5,7 @@
 <ul>
     {% for post in paginator.posts %}
       <li>
-          <h2><a href="{% if site.baseurl == "/" %}{{ post.url }}{% else %}{{ post.url | prepend: site.baseurl }}{% endif %}">{{ post.title }}</a></h2>
+          <h2><a href="{{ post.url | prepend: site.baseurl | replace: '//', '/' }}">{{ post.title }}</a></h2>
           <time datetime="{{ post.date | date_to_xmlschema }}">{{ post.date | date_to_string }}</time>
           <p>{{ post.content | strip_html | truncatewords:50 }}</p>
       </li>