Live preview: baseUrl should not be optional for serving pages

[yamgent]

In Jekyll, when using the live preview, the baseurl is taken into consideration and used as part of its serving URL. For example, if the baseurl is /myblog, then the live preview's server URL will be:

http://127.0.0.1:8080/myblog/

However, for MarkBind, we do not take baseUrl into consideration baseUrl usage is optional, so we can serve everything in:

http://127.0.0.1:8080/

This makes it more difficult to determine whether the URLs inside the page's source are actually generated correctly, until you deploy to the actual server and find out that things are broken.

[acjh]

If I recall correctly, the baseUrl works but the landing page that is initially opened is the root.

[yamgent]

If I recall correctly, the baseUrl works but the landing page that is initially opened is the root.

Hmm you are right, I didn't notice that, because links to other pages also do not use baseUrl and they still work.

I think that makes the problem worse though. :P

In Jekyll, omitting the baseurl in the URL is forbidden (the page will not serve and gives a 404).

For MarkBind, given that baseUrl is myblog, and you have a test.md in the root directory, both of the URLs below work, and they both navigate to the same page:

http://127.0.0.1:8080/myblog/test.html
http://127.0.0.1:8080/test.html

That may make it harder to debug potential issues related to baseUrl.