Using htmlproof with Jekyll's baseurl

[NathanHazout]

I am using Jekyll to build my site.

All my images, links, etc, use a variable called site.baseurl. eg:

<link href="{{site.baseurl}}/lib/bootstrap/css/bootstrap.css" rel="stylesheet">

When generated it looks like:

<link href="/MFPSamples/lib/bootstrap/css/bootstrap.css" rel="stylesheet">

When htmlproof runs on it, I get:

* internally linking to /MFPSamples/lib/bootstrap/css/bootstrap.css, which does not exist (line 18)

I tried to use href-swap but the new string value to give is not clear.
Using --href-swap \/MFPSamples\/: replaces with empty string, which means it translates to lib/bootstrap/css/bootstrap.css, which is a relative link, which is not always valid depending where you are.

Trying --href-swap \/MFPSamples\/:/ gives an error htmlproof 2.5.2 | Error: undefined methodsplit' for /MFPSamples/:/:Regexp`

[NathanHazout]

OK I found part of the answer:
--href-swap \/MFPSamples: seems to work around the issue.

However it does not seem to apply it to scripts.

[afeld]

[hrep-swap] does not seem to apply it to scripts

See #219 – jekyll/jekyll#4122 (comment) was a good workaround in the meantime though.

[gjtorikian]

I can't make Proofer work with Jekyll's {{ site.baseurl }}, because I don't want to deal with parsing links and rewriting them to match the value in a specific _config.yml file. However, the change to get this working for scripts is completed for Proofer 3.0. When that's out, this should be fixed. Keep track of #219 for more info on that.

[Merovex]

Adding a comment if anyone is looking for this in 2020. I have run a blog for the better part of 9 years, and completely overlooked the use of {% site_url name-of-blog-post %}, which when included in a markdown article will yield the correct URL. As of Jekyll 4.0, use of post.url does not need the basename to properly render. So, by removing the baseurl and fixing my links, I was able to quiet 193 false-positive links in my blog.