Base Url

When editing be careful to write correctly formatted YAML. In YAML indentation matters. A short intro to YAML can be found here.

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Description

The base URL field tells hugo what the beginning of a url on your page should look like. For example if you configure:

baseURL: "example.com"

a link to the blog section on your page will be:

http://example.com/blog

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Configuration

Free option

Github offers a free subdomain option as part of the pages program. To configure the free option replace <github username> with your github username:

baseURL: "https://<github username>.github.io"

Custom domain name

For a custom url replace <url> with your domain name

baseURL: "https://<url>"