Problems with "match" to make html from a different folder

[pippocarmona]

Greetings!

I've been having some problems having hakyll make individual html pages for contributors to the website I'm making. Their bios are written in markdown and are in a separate folder from /posts. This is the code I have in my site.hs:

import           Data.Monoid (mappend)
import           Hakyll
..
..
    match "authors/*" $ do
        route $ setExtension "html"
        compile $ pandocCompiler 
            >>= loadAndApplyTemplate "templates/author.html" defaultContext
            >>= relativizeUrls

I included the import portion because it may be an error on my part for not having the right packages included.

I use the command stack exec site rebuild to compile the website. But, the author profiles are left untouched. And when I check the _site folder, the expected files and folder are not there.

Btw, I'm new to haskell.

Thank you!

[chungyc]

Is the source publicly visible by any chance? It would be a lot easier to diagnose with concrete files.

But without knowing what the setup is like, two things come to mind:

• Do you have the files in sub-directories of the authors/ directory? If so, you would want to use "authors/**" instead to recursively match within sub-directories, since a single * matches only files.

• Are you running stack exec site rebuild where the authors/ directory is?¹

Footnotes

1. One can in fact configure Hakyll to use directories other than those in the current directory, but one would almost certainly already know that this is being done if it was set up this way. ↩

[LaurentRDC]

Hi @pippocarmona ,

Exactly as @chungyc said, it could be due to the directory structure. You can see on my personal website how I match "projects/**", which has files and directories inside.

You can also see from the root of my personal website's Github, that the "projects" directory is at the root of the project. This means that when you run stack exec site rebuild on your own site, your authors directory is expected to be at the root of the project.

Hope this helps!

P.S. I also got started with Haskell by building a website with Hakyll. Let me know how we can make this as easy as possible for you