Cobalt cannot find layout no matter where it is if src and destination specified in _cobalt.yml

[davidthewatson]

I'm using cobalt 0.19.0 built from cargo.

I have a cobalt site generated successfully with the default configuration of _cobalt.yml where src lives in the main project directory and destination is set to _site with layouts in _layouts as in _layouts/default.liquid. That works fine.

However, if I set src and destination in _cobalt.yml, cobalt seems unable to find the frontmatter-specified layout, no matter where it lives: same current directory as the page or post, the _layouts directory, relative path set in the frontmatter layouts directive, nothing.

No matter the configuration, I get an error such as:

Error: Failed to render for file.html

Caused by:
    Layout default.liquid does not exist (referenced in file.html).

I wish I could find a work-around but so far, no luck. I tried setting verbosity on cobalt build but none of the regex logs seemed causal with respect to what must-be malformed search-path for liquid templates.

Thanks!

[epage]

Have a reproduction case you can point me to?

[matschundbrei]

There seems to be an issue with pathing/defaults in general. I just had a similar expierience while trying to use a secondary _cobalt_build.yml with the gitlab-cicd/pages example on the current release (cobalt-bin 0.19.2)

It does seem that I cannot convince the source configuration parameter in any yml outside of the default (_cobalt.yml) to just use "." or "this directory"

I am just doing this in order to be able to easily workaround the fact that site.sitemap set to anything will prevent cobalt serve to even come up.

You can reproduce this by:

# init fresh project
$ cobalt init
Created new project at ./
$ ls
_cobalt.yml  _defaults  index.md  _layouts  posts
# just copy the working config to a new one in the same dir
$ cp _cobalt.yml _cobalt_testing.yml
# and voila, it's borked ...
$ cobalt serve -c _cobalt_testing.yml 
Building from `` into `/tmp/.tmpvZWt5b`
Watching "" for changes
Serving /tmp/.tmpvZWt5b through static file server
Server Listening on http://localhost:1024
Ctrl-c to stop the server
Error: Failed in processing source

Caused by:
    No such file or directory (os error 2)

[epage]

@matschundbrei v0.19.3 is out with a fix for that case. However, without a reproduction case for @davidthewatson's problem, its hard to say if that fixed it or if there are other problems.