Allow custom path for archives

[alberto]

The archives path seems to be hardcoded to 'blog/archives'. I don't use 'blog' anywhere in my paths, and I would like to set it to 'archives'.

[teiko]

Would be nice indeed

[celadevra]

Agree. On my site Octopress is deployed under /blog, thus the archives path becomes /blog/blog/archives, not very pretty.

[gpessia]

Agree!!

[rmalleman]

Yeah, this would be awesome

[orenyk]

If you look in octopress/source, you can see that there is a folder blog that contains another folder archives. From what I can tell, Jekyll will render the index.html file in the archives folder wherever you put it. So, for example, if you want it to simply be in {blog-url}/archives instead of {blog-url}/blog/archives, simply place the index.html file in octopress/source/archives and re-generate the blog. This is definitely a bit of a hack, but it should work (just don't forget to change the links in the template files, e.g. source/index.html and source/_includes/custom/navigation.html, or wherever else you link to the archives). Hope this helps!

EDIT: don't forget to commit the deletions if you remove the original folders, otherwise the original link (e.g. {blog-url}/blog/archives will still show the old archives.

[Leonidas-from-XIV]

@orenyk that is a workaround, but I would prefer to have support for renaming the archive location.

Currently it is quite silly, I have a blog at ~username/blog and the archives are ~username/blog/blog/archives which makes me look dumb ;) Applying your workaround for now.

[oblitum]

I'd like that too!!, gonna apply the workaround now. I have the same /blog/blog/ issue =/

[oblitum]

@orenyk @Leonidas-from-XIV, well, this workaround has not helped me... after rake deploy I had got the same \blog\blog\ =(.

[Leonidas-from-XIV]

Did you do rake generate before (not sure if it gets run automatically)? You might want to delete your target directory, so there's no stale blog/blog folder laying around.

[oblitum]

@Leonidas-from-XIV Yes, I've done, I've not deleted the target directory, but the deploying process visibly deleted, what I've got with the workaround was that the arquives url wasn't at /blog/blog/archives/, it was right at /blog/archives/, but the end posts remained at /blog/blog/. My file structure: http://i.imgur.com/5060f.png, and my blog posts: http://oblita.com/blog/archives/

[Leonidas-from-XIV]

But this bug is about archives, so you applied this workaround properly. You also need to edit _config.yml to remove blog/ from the permalink. Octopress really, really likes this blog prefix.

[oblitum]

@Leonidas-from-XIV hmmm, thanks, I'll look into that.

[oblitum]

@Leonidas-from-XIV thanks, worked =)

[mariosangiorgio]

Is there any news?

[vadsamoht]

@mariosangiorgio Not yet, AFAIK.