Generated paths point to root of my HDD

[vorg]

I'm trying to build my project by following this tutorial and I get this error:

{ [Error: EACCES, mkdir '/marcinignac-com'] errno: 3, code: 'EACCES', path: '/marcinignac-com' }

Obviously node doesn't have access to crate folders in root of my HDD

My project tree

com-marcinignac
├── build
├── build.js
├── package.json
├── src
│   ├── css
│   │   └── main.css
│   ├── index.md
│   └── projects
│       ├── cindermedusae
│       │   ├── cindermedusae.md
│       │   └── img
│       │       └── cindermedusae_01.jpg
│       ├── fibers
│       │   └── fibers.md
│       └── ucc-organism
│           └── ucc-organism.md
└── templates
    ├── index.html
    ├── partials
    │   ├── footer.html
    │   └── header.html
    └── post.html

Used modules

    "handlebars": "^2.0.0",
    "metalsmith": "^1.0.1",
    "metalsmith-collections": "^0.6.0",
    "metalsmith-drafts": "0.0.1",
    "metalsmith-markdown": "^0.2.1",
    "metalsmith-permalinks": "^0.3.2",
    "metalsmith-templates": "^0.6.0",
    "metalsmith-watch": "^0.1.1"

Metalsmith config

metalsmith(__dirname)
  .use(collections({
    projects: {
      pattern: 'projects/**/*.md'
    }
  }))
  .use(markdown())
  .use(permalinks({
    pattern: ':collection/:title',
    relative: false
  }))
  .use(templates('handlebars'))
  .destination('./build')
  .build(function(err){
    if (err) throw err;
  });

[vorg]

The project above build successfully with.

metalsmith-permalinks 0.4.0
metalsmith-collections 0.4.0 & 0.5.1

[brandenbyers]

Running into a similar issue. Recently started getting this the following error. No errors when I remove metalsmith-permalinks.

Error: EACCES, open '/about/index.html'

Why is permalinks attempting to access root?

[brandenbyers]

The pattern appears to be my problem. Do you still get errors if you change the pattern from

    .use(permalinks({
        pattern: ':collection/:title',
        relative: false
    }))

to this:

    .use(permalinks({
        pattern: ':title',
        relative: false
    }))

I don't get any build errors when I remove collection from the pattern. If not, is the problem metalsmith-permalinks or metalsmith-collections?

[brandenbyers]

Looks like my issue might have been different after all. Just in case it helps: I had one of my collections patterns prefixed with a "/" and that was causing the root issue. Changed this:

    .use(collections({
        pages: {
            pattern: '/content/pages/*.md'

to this and no more errors:

    .use(collections({
        pages: {
            pattern: 'content/pages/*.md'

[nickbuddendotcom]

@brndnb I'm having the same issue, Error: EACCES, open '/about/index.html'.

var Metalsmith  = require('metalsmith');
var markdown    = require('metalsmith-markdown');
var templates   = require('metalsmith-templates');
var collections = require('metalsmith-collections');
var permalinks  = require('metalsmith-permalinks');
var stylus      = require('metalsmith-stylus');
var watch       = require('metalsmith-watch');
var ignore      = require('metalsmith-ignore');

Metalsmith(__dirname)
  .use(ignore([
    'drafts/*',
    '.DS_Store'
  ]))
  // .use(watch())
  .use(collections({
    pages: {
      pattern: 'content/pages/*.md'
    }
  }))
  .use(markdown())
  .use(permalinks({
    pattern: ':collection/:title'
  }))
  .use(templates('jade'))
  .use(stylus())
  .destination('./build')
  .build(function(err, files) {
    if (err) { throw err; }
  });

Unfortunately no prefixed slash for me.

[fengtality]

i had the same issue. Adding permalink: false as described in #22 fixed it.

[skyturtleio]

I have a similar folder structure as the tutorial mentioned by @vorg. I had the same issue when trying to build but it was only with the index.md. The content/pages/ and /content/posts/ directories had no problems during build. Removing the prefix slash and adding permalink: false to the YAML front matter of my index.md as mentioned above fixed the issue.

[mdvorscak]

I have the same exact issue, and after a bit of debugging I've determined the cause:

The code from the tutorial is:

Metalsmith(__dirname)
    .use(collections({
             pages : {
                 pattern : 'content/pages/*.md'
             },
             posts : {
                 pattern : 'content/posts/*.md',
                 sortBy  : 'date',
                 reverse : true
             }
         }))
    .use(permalinks({
             pattern : ':collection/:title'
         }))
...

The issue was seen in the file blogRoot/src/index.md,since this file didn't match a 'collection' pattern the permalink was '/home/index.html' (the root of the file system)

Adding permalink: false to the (front-matter of the) offending files does fix the issue.

However, I think this issue should still be addressed in this plugin in a more flexible way this pull request attempts to fix the issue. But in my opinion, it too tightly couples different modules that don't need to know about each other.

Maybe a better solution would be to do something like (just a proposed solution not actual working code):

  .use(permalinks({
             pattern : ':collection/:title',
            ignore: function(patternPart){
                return typeof patternPart === 'undefined';
            }
         }))

where the ignore function would also remove any following slashes.

[eddieh]

If this is happening to you after adding permalink: false, try moving your .use(collections()). For me, it works when it is the first.

[donofkarma]

Just had this issue myself, found it to be a leading / in the pattern.

[jarodtaylor]

Is the solution still to add the permalink:false to the front-matter?

[nikmartin]

.use(permalinks({
    relative: false,
    pattern: './:collection/:title' \\ <<<< note the './' 
  }))