Markdown plugin not working

[ventsyv]

I get Error opening file /<path>/index.html: No such file or directory
where <path> is the path to the directory that contains the markdown file I'm trying to load.

If I open the plugin preferences and change the template to "template.html" I get a different error:

[general] template=/home/ventsyvelev/.config/geany/plugins/markdown/markdown.conf [view] position=0 font_name=Serif code_font_name=Mono font_point_size=12 code_font_point_size=12 bg_color=#ffffff fg_color=#000000

Geany 1.38
Ubuntu 22

[elextr]

If I open the plugin preferences and change the template to "template.html" I get a different error:

What error?

[general] template=/home/ventsyvelev/.config/geany/plugins/markdown/markdown.conf

That setting should indeed point to a HTML template, so probably why the index.html was not created.

[ventsyv]

What error?

[general] template=/home/ventsyvelev/.config/geany/plugins/markdown/markdown.conf [view] position=0 font_name=Serif code_font_name=Mono font_point_size=12 code_font_point_size=12 bg_color=#ffffff fg_color=#000000

What am I missing? What is this index.html file and why does the plugin expect to find one in the directory of the markdown file?

[elextr]

index.html is the file written by converting the markdown to html for display in the viewer, it is created by the plugin, but it needs a template file to know how to create that. But your template file does not point to an html template, see https://plugins.geany.org/markdown.html for more information.

[ventsyv]

OK, that makes sense. In my case the template file was not set in the preferences.
Now that I set it to ~/.config/geany/plungins/markdown/template.html, the markdown files are rendered when I open them, but if I right click in the markdown window and click "Reload" I'm still getting Error opening file /<path>/index.html: No such file or directory