Hero image not sought or 404

[davebrothers]

When running in localhost with hugo server, hero image cannot be found and sometimes isn't even looked for.

Have tried:

• Specifying in site config.toml featured_image -- Does not appear to be respected at all; Network tab shows no attempt to find file
• Specifying in content/_index.md front matter featured_image: 'static/images/file.jpg' -- Site tries to pull from //localhost:1313/static/images/file.jpg but always 404s.
• Copying the specified hero image to (site root)/static/images/file.jpg, (site root)/content/static/images/file.jpg and same structures inside theme folder.

Did I fall asleep in class and just miss something? 😴

[budparr]

Thank you, @Eidolonic It's very likely something I did trying to get the URLs to work on any instance, including where the install is in a nested folder. I'll have a look tonight.

[budparr]

Hey, @Eidolonic

Specifying in site config.toml featured_image -- Does not appear to be respected at all; Network tab shows no attempt to find file

At some point I changed this to not use a config default because I felt like the behavior should be not to have anything if you didn't have an image on the page. If you want the default from the config, I can show you how to do that {{ $featured_image := .Params.featured_image | default .Site.Params.featured_image }}

Specifying in content/_index.md front matter featured_image: 'static/images/file.jpg' -- Site tries to pull from //localhost:1313/static/images/file.jpg but always 404s.

The reference should not include static

Copying the specified hero image to (site root)/static/images/file.jpg, (site root)/content/static/images/file.jpg and same structures inside theme folder.

"(site root)/static/images/file.jpg" looks right to me.

I tested the theme with the sample content and it seems to work okay. If you want to post your repo, I'm happy to have a look.

[davebrothers]

@budparr Thanks for your detailed response and sorry for squirreling you on a non-issue. Simply removing the static portion of the front matter reference fixed the problem. Thought I had tried that, but clearly not. 😎 Thanks for a killer theme.

[budparr]

Awesome! Glad to hear you got it figured out.