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How to have Jekyll-Bootstrap not put "index.html" in the navigation

I'm a happy Jekyllbootstrap user, however the index.md template is compiled to index.html. This is expected, but for me undesired behaviour.

When the navigation links to the homepage it uses index.html on the anchor. I can get around this using an nginx redirect, but I don't want to have any links on my site that I'm "fixing" using 301 redirects. I'd like it to generate the correct link in the first place.

So to be clear. I don't want jekyll to ever link to index.html but instead link to /.

Solution

  • I found the answer to this. I had to set the following at the top of my index.md file:

    ---
layout: page
title: Home
group: navigation
permalink: /
---

    The key part here being permalink: /