Setting url in front matter does nothing

[krig]

According to the documentation, setting the url in the front matter should override the resulting generated path. This doesn't happen.

I have a document named content/404.md with this:

+++
url = "/404.html"
+++

#404

but the resulting document is /404/index.html, not /404.html.

[spf13]

The issue here is that setting url is still respecting prettyUrls and it shouldn't

[mbertschler]

I was having the same issues like in Issue #330
I tried to solve the homepage-as-content problem by using url = "/" and url = "/index.html"

Using the url as is if it ends in .html would fix this issue too (so I could make my homepage with url="/index.html")

Something else: the file file.md with url="/file2/" is generated twice, in the folder /file/ and in /file2/
Is this expected behaviour or should I file a bug for that?

[natefinch]

@mbertschler please file a bug for the double generation behavior.... no content should get generated twice.

[mbertschler]

@natefinch I can't reproduce this bug after deleting the /public directory, probably it was caused by hugo not cleaning the directory as I was playing around with different front matter arguments.
There is already an issue #379 for that. At least for a newbie this behaviour is pretty confusing...

[spf13]

Closing as it's already captured in #330 and #379 as mentioned.

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