public_folder forces leading /

[Larsklopstra]

Describe the bug
Using public_folder: "../uploads" I'd assume it would return ../uploads/image.png but the result is ./../uploads/image.png thus resulting in a 404.

The forced leading slash will prevent Gridsome from optimizing the images.

Expected behavior
Using public_folder: "../uploads" should return ../uploads/image.png NOT ./../uploads/image.png.

CMS configuration

backend:
  name: github
  repo: Larsklopstra/gridsome-starter-netlify-cms

media_folder: "uploads"
public_folder: "../uploads"

collections:
  - name: "posts"
    label: "Posts"
    folder: "posts"
    create: true
    slug: "{{slug}}"
    fields:
      - {label: "Title", name: "title", widget: "string"}
      - {label: "Excerpt", name: "excerpt", widget: "string"}
      - {label: "Body", name: "body", widget: "markdown"}

Additional context
Using Gridsome as static site generator.

[tomrutgers]

I'm not exactly a gridsome expert, but I'm pretty sure the paths in your config need to be absolute. Pretty sure you don't want them to be in root either. So something like:

media_folder: "static/uploads/"
public_folder: "/uploads/

[Larsklopstra]

@tomrutgers I want to avoid placing files into the static folder, if I change the article-example.md its contents from ![](/../image.png) to ![](../image.png) then it will work perfectly, so the issue is the forced leading slash. I've tried many different configs.

[erquhart]

Related to #325 and #1668.

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[erquhart]

Resolved by #2958.

Docs here: https://www.netlifycms.org/docs/beta-features/#folder-collections-media-folder