Eleventy: 404.md file with markdownTemplateEngine as false breaks filename

[alex-page]

When using markdownTemplateEngine I set the value as false markdownTemplateEngine: false,. This caused the 404.html to be called <p>/404.html</p>?. This generates folders and an odd file name. Changing the value to njk or liquid seems to fix the problem.

The 404.md looks like:

---
layout: page
pagetitle: 404 page not found
permalink: /404.html
excludeFromSitemap: true
---
# Yikes!

> Dude where's my page!

It seems you have found a missing page. Sorry for any inconvenience.

It feels like a bug however I don't know enough about how the files are rendered.

I hope this helps, thanks for an awesome static site renderer! I have really enjoyed using it! The examples page is great and has made fixing/troubleshooting little issues like this a lot easier.

[kleinfreund]

You’re setting markdownTemplateEngine: 'false', but the documentation says

https://www.11ty.io/docs/languages:

htmlTemplateEngine: The default global template engine to pre-process HTML files. Use false to avoid pre-processing and passthrough copy the content (HTML is not transformed, so technically this could be any plaintext).

So you need to set markdownTemplateEngine: false instead. Can you try that?

[alex-page]

@kleinfreund my mistake in the example above I am setting a boolean not a string. So the output is still creating a directory called <p>404.html</ with a file named p>.

return {
    dir: {
        input: 'src',
        includes: '_includes',
        output: 'site'
    },
    templateFormats : ['njk', 'md'],
    htmlTemplateEngine : false,
    markdownTemplateEngine: false,
};

[kleinfreund]

@alex-page I see! Alright. So I tried to reproduce this. You’re file is 404.html and its inside the src directory, correct?

I wonder why the file is processed in the first place because you don’t list html as a templateFormat. Can you add that to the configuration and check again? Otherwise, I don’t quite know how to reproduce this exactly. In particular, I’d like to know how your src/_inlcudes/page.njk file looks like.

[alex-page]

It's 404.md not .html and it is inside the src directory. You can see the project here if you are curious: https://github.com/alex-page/alex-page

Changing the .eleventy.js setting to the one above breaks the output of the page.

[kleinfreund]

I can reproduce this now with the following files and the configuration you provided.

• src/
  
  
  
  • _includes/
  
  
  • page.njk
  
  
  • 404.md
  
  
• .eleventy.js

The produced output:

• site/
  
  
  
  • <p>/
  
  
  • 404.html</
    
    
    
    
    
    • p>
    
    
    
  
  

(Note: All file system objects don’t actually end in a slash above; that’s just for representation here.)

I will look into it now.

[kleinfreund]

@zachleat I don’t get the logic.

In Template.js, permalink is /404.html and out comes a permalinkValue of '<p>/404.html</p>', hence the weird output above.

permalinkValue = await super.render(permalink, data, true);

The TemplateContent.render method always seems to get template content to render, but now it tries to render what was meant as the permalink.

[alex-page]

Thanks @kleinfreund for digging into this. I should have definitely done a folder structure as an example in the original issue.

[zachleat]

Ah yes @kleinfreund this is a legitimate bug! I added a test for this if you’re curious what was up!

[alex-page]

Thank you @zachleat and @kleinfreund really appreciate it <3