zola serve with --output-dir stopped serving assets in v0.18.0

[radekmie]

Bug Report

Environment

Zola version: v0.18.0

Expected Behavior

zola serve --output-dir docs should render the page normally, just like zola serve (i.e., with no custom --output-dir). That's how it worked in 0.17.2.

Current Behavior

The HTML is served correctly, but all assets - including CSS and image files - result in 404.

Step to reproduce

1. Run zola serve. The website looks normal.
2. Run zola serve --output-dir docs. The website looks broken, as the CSS is not there.

[wold5]

Can confirm this, with 0.18 for Windows. The files are actually present in the output directory, but not loaded.

Ignore the latter re Linux: I accidentally used 0.17 (system installed). This might be another issue, TBC.

[pietroalbini]

This is fixed by #2398, it would be nice to have a patch release with the fix.

[Keats]

There's probably going to be a new release anyway since pulldown_cmark was updated

[maghoff]

A workaround for this problem is to give the absolute path of the output directory on the command line, ie instead of --output-dir docs, --output-dir /full/path/to/docs.

[wold5]

A workaround for this problem is to give the absolute path of the output directory on the command line, ie instead of --output-dir docs, --output-dir /full/path/to/docs.

This didn't solve it on Windows - and I always use the full path to a ramdisk.

Current next with #2398 fails to run for me on Windows, further comments will follow in that thread.

My earlier comment re Linux can be ignored BTW. I usually write on Windows and compile on Linux. I forget --drafts... after a long day, when converting shortcodes to macros turned up all kinds of issues to do with scope overlap, etc, etc. (since solved) ;)

[maghoff]

@wold5 You'd need to format the path exactly like fs::canonicalize does. I think you'd get paths that start with \\?\ in that syntax. But I'm no Windows guru. If you need the workaround, the simplest way is probably to write a test program just to canonicalize the path correctly :)

[Keats]

Would https://crates.io/crates/normpath solve the issue?