Bug Report

The option -u or --base-url is not taken into account with the serve command.

Environment

Zola version: 0.17.2

Expected Behavior

With the command zola serve -u 127.0.0.1/test/ -O, I was expecting the server to open this URL and to make the site available at this URL.

Current Behavior

• the command opens this URL: http://127.0.0.1:1111/
• the site is only partially available. The CSS and static items aren’t found.
• opening http://127.0.0.1:1111/test/ leads to a 404 answer from the server.

Step to reproduce

Type the following command:

zola serve -u 127.0.0.1/test/ -O

The output is:

Building site...
Checking all internal links with anchors.
> Successfully checked 0 internal link(s) with anchors.
-> Creating 14 pages (0 orphan) and 1 sections
Done in 62ms.

Web server is available at http://127.0.0.1:1111

Listening for changes in \\?\D:\projects\web\test_blog\{config.toml,content,sass,static,templates}
Press Ctrl+C to stop

The browser opens this page: http://127.0.0.1:1111/

Other information

My config.toml file specifies a base URL on github.io. When I publish the website, it mostly works there except a few dangling URLs that I need to debug.

Used with the default options, e.g. zola serve -O, it works fine too. It just makes it difficult to check those dangling links with a more realistic URL that includes a path after the IP.