Blog recipe posts in root URL

We’re migrating our blog to WYAM. For SEO reasons we’d like to keep our posts in root URL (not in /posts/ subfolder). For example /my-article-1 instead of /posts/my-article-1.

I know we can use redirects (using metadata RedirectFrom:), but it is not enough for us. We need the final (redirected) URL to stay in root.

When setting BlogKeys.PostsPath to /, an error “Rooted globbing patterns are not supported” occurs. When setting BlogKeys.PostsPath to empty string, an error “Access to the path ‘c:\index.html’ is denied.” occurs (because WYAM is trying to overwrite index of homepage with index of archive page).

Is there any way how to do it properly?

[jansotola]

I’ve managed to do renaming of the “Archive” page web folder by rewriting BlogArchive pipeline. It may be a dirty and brute force solution but it works:

int archiveIndex = Pipelines.IndexOf("BlogArchive");
Pipelines.Remove("BlogArchive");
Pipelines.Insert(archiveIndex, "BlogArchive",
  // most of the lines have been copied from WYAM Blog.cs
  new Wyam.Web.Pipelines.ConditionalPipeline(
    ctx => ctx.Bool(BlogKeys.GenerateArchive),
    new Wyam.Web.Pipelines.Archive(
      "BlogArchive",
      new Wyam.Web.Pipelines.ArchiveSettings
      {
        Pipelines = new string[] { "BlogPosts" },
        TemplateFile = ctx => "_Archive.cshtml",
        Layout = "/_Layout.cshtml",
        PageSize = ctx => ctx.Get(BlogKeys.ArchivePageSize, int.MaxValue),
        Title = (doc, ctx) => "Archive",
        // the only redefined line
        RelativePath = (doc, ctx) => $"{ctx.DirectoryPath(BlogKeys.PostsPath, ".").FullPath.Replace(ctx.String(BlogKeys.PostsPath), "archive")}"
      })));
qqq

[daveaglick]

Great, glad you found a solution!