I want to keep multiple different project html documents of Quarto Books without re-rendering in future, like:
~/Sites/
|- project_a / index.html
|- project_b / index.html
Q1. Is there such an option to achieve this?
I tried site-url: report_book_search_my and site-path: report_book_search_my, but they do not change the root path in index.html.
Q2. If there's no such option, what is a good way to achieve multiple projects hosted under a single web server at local?
In order to keep the rendered html documents of Quarto Book with search functionality available in future without re-rendering, we need a local web server. This is because javascript-depending search functionality does not work if we open local html file on modern browsers as file:// (i.e. just open the index.html on a browser) because of CORS (cross-origin resource sharing)-security issue.
Under a web server, this can be achieved as follows, as far as I only want single project just below the document root.
mkdir ~/Sites
cd ~/Sites
npx serve .
#http://localhost:3000
#click deny to keep it local when macos asks if inbound connection is allowed or not.
ln -s <my_quarto_dir>/_book ~/Sites/<any_name_i_want>
But it does not work if we want to organize multiple project directories under ~/Sites/ as above. This is because index.html assumes root as / such as these:
<script src="site_libs/quarto-nav/quarto-nav.js"></script>
<script src="site_libs/quarto-nav/headroom.min.js"></script>
...
<a href="./index.html" class="sidebar-item-text sidebar-link active">
...
<a href="./intro.html" class="sidebar-item-text sidebar-link">
...
I couldn't find an option to change document root when we render (or publish to any user-defined web server).
My workaround is as follows:
- Create
scripts/add-base.shto add<base>tag to change document root.
add-base.sh
#!/bin/bash
mv _book/index.html _book/index.orig.html
name=$(basename "$(pwd)")
# path-absolute-URL string like `/foo` with trailing `/`, i.e. `/foo/` works.
# to add e.g. `<base href="/report_book_search/">`
perl -spe 's!\<head\>\n!\<head\>\n\<base href\="/$name/">\n!;' -- -name=$name _book/index.orig.html > _book/index.html
# scheme-relative-special-URL string works, too.
# to add e.g. `<base href="http://localhost:3000/report_book_search/">`
#perl -spe 's!\<head\>\n!\<head\>\n\<base href\="http://localhost:3000\/$name/">\n!;' -- -name=$name _book/index.orig.html > _book/index.html
# path-relative URL string like <base href="./report_book_search/"> does not work. (some links fails with '/' at the end or url such as `http://localhost:3000/report_book_search/`.)
rm ~/Sites/$name
ln -s -f "$(pwd)"/_book ~/Sites/$name
- Add 2 lines of
post-render:atproject:section of yaml as follows.
project:
type: book
post-render:
- scripts/add-base.sh
These steps enable multiple projects hosted under a single web server. (When to test on RStudio with http://localhost:<portnum>, comment out these two lines).
But I wonder is there easier and better way to achieve this? Thanks.