Slug with explicit .html extension breaks build

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Description

I’m migrating a blog from Jekyll. It is necessary for me to keep the exact same url structure because there’s external refs to these posts. So I have a

slug: a/b.html

in every blog post frontmatter. On build, this fails with the following error:

[ERROR] Unable to build website for locale en.
[ERROR] Error: Expected output HTML file to be found at /home/projects/kkviyzpmp.github/build/blog/a/b.html/index.html.

Running the site works fine, error only happens on build.

Reproducible demo

https://stackblitz.com/edit/github-iuz7vq?file=blog/2021-08-26-welcome/index.md

Steps to reproduce

1. Set a slug in a blog post frontmatter: /a/b.html
2. Run yarn build

Expected behavior

Build should succeed, especially since running the site poses no problems.

Actual behavior

Build fails with the following error message:

[ERROR] Unable to build website for locale en.
[ERROR] Error: Expected output HTML file to be found at /home/projects/kkviyzpmp.github/build/blog/a/b.html/index.html.

Your environment

On stackblitz playground.

Self-service

• I’d be willing to fix this bug myself.

[Pranav2612000]

Hey @slorber I’ll like to work on this. I’ve read the disclaimer and don’t expect the PR to be assigned but just wanted to give up a heads up to prevent some one else from working on the same task.

( I’ll try create a PR quickly, but if you don’t see a message in the next 12 hours, feel free to pick this up )

[Josh-Cena]

Could you try setting trailingSlash: false?