Force adding of index.html to router links

[alex-exerve]

Is there an option to have vuepress add index.html to router links instead of using /?

We are creating some documentation that will be available to developers. However, it will be served in a manner that doesn't allow automatically picking up on index.html. Due to the way the router currently is created, the home-link in default-theme will always be equal to config.js::modules.export.base and thus the site logo/title will not link to an index.html

I was looking through the documentation and couldn't find a way to make this happen without ejecting the theme and doing it myself manually.

I can also redo this as a feature request and/or implement it if someone points me in the right direction of where the router creation is.

[meteorlxy]

From my understanding, adding index.html is the default behavior.

vuepress/lib/prepare/codegen.js

Lines 34 to 40 in 64bb80d

	if (/\/$/.test(pagePath)) {
	code += `,
	{
	path: ${JSON.stringify(pagePath + 'index.html')},
	redirect: ${JSON.stringify(pagePath)}
	}`
	}

[alex-exerve]

I think my main issue is in this line, now that i'm looking at it:

vuepress/lib/default-theme/Navbar.vue

Line 4 in 64bb80d

<router-link :to="$localePath" class="home-link">

since it's using the $localePath (which is currently set to /) it will not link to index.html.

Let me try setting my locale and see if that fixes it.

[alex-exerve]

Okay so yeah, it looks like the issue is that it is using the base/localePath, and won't use the root 'index.html' as the link to the home page in the navbar.

[meteorlxy]

Oh I catch your point. Currently we redirect /index.html to /. Maybe we should redirect / to /index.html instead?

[alex-exerve]

Oh I catch your point. Currently we redirect '/index.html' to '/'. Maybe we should redirect '/' to '/index.html' instead?

Or at least give an option in the themeConfig maybe?

[ycmjason]

If @alex-exerve 's environment do not support /, I don't think redirecting / to /index.html could help because the redirection we are doing is on the client side (?)

[alex-exerve]

True, but it's more about being able to right click a link and copy the url and give it to someone else. At that point it is a redirection issue since new person hasn't been to said thing yet.

This is really not that big of a deal, and was more of an odd thing I ran into in my specific environment. It might be something where it is outside the scope of this project as a whole and I just need to create my own theme to handle this specific issue since it appears to be that one specific link in the navbar.

[ulivz]

@alex-exerve

Don't know if the public/_redirects file could help you. refs: vue-router > _redirects

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Before adding any new feature to the core, we will consider the complexity brought about by the feature and the actual meaning it produces. for a very rare requirement that can also be done on the user-land, our principle is not to add it to core. sorry but this is our principle.