Hey a question. Today I noticed that the css method generates links with the hostname and protocol attached. This is a PITA for us because occasionally we want to proxy content (for example using ngrok for demos). So my questions are why is Kirby forcing an absolute URL here? In general root-rel…

I asked the same question some months ago, and the upshot is that relative links are bad for SEO. I asked from the perspective of making the HTML smaller, since the full address is taking up extra bytes. I’ve not run into issues with proxies, though, I’ve used NGROK and Browsersync proxies just fine…

[image] Absolute vs Relative Path - Which Should You Be Using? - KeyCDN Learn more about the differences that exist between an absolute and relative path. This article explains which method you should use and why.

I read that article and to say it’s arguments are underwhelming is an understatement. If parts of your staging site are publicly accessible, it’s very important to avoid using relative URLs for your site navigation links. If a single incorrect link gets deployed to production, then it may open up …

This is another argument I’ve found: If you have all of your internal links as relative URLs, it would be very, very, very easy for a scraper to simply scrape your whole website and put it up on a new domain, and the whole website would just work. That sucks for you, and it’s great for that scrape…

Soo… Somebody spends the time to scrape your entire site but then can be bothered to just replace the URLs? I not sure this is much of an argument. :slight_smile:

I just posted what I’ve read in the past. You can create a feature request on GitHub or just not use the functions provided by Kirby. Does this just affect the CSS/JS methods or also images? Wondering whether this could be solved with a config setting that set’s the url to your ngrok url when usin…

Doh. Of course that’s the right solution. :slight_smile:

CSS links without hostname

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lukasbestle December 14, 2018, 12:17pm 8

You can configure Kirby to use domain-relative URLs like so:

c::set('url', '/');

Ngrok tunneling doesnt take in css or images

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