Newbie question: non-empty SITEURL resulting in web page rendering going out of whack

[avibathula]

Hi - I just started learning Pelican and planning to use it to build my personal website. I installed the latest bits.

I am using attilla theme and the default pelicanconf.py sets
SITEURL=""

With default value - my bare bones site is working fine

But as SITEURL is needed for feeds to get created properly, I changed it to
SITEURL="https://blog.mysite.me"

This change was enough to make the site render like below - What am I missing here? I verified that by unsetting the string, everything starts working again.

Regards,
-Avi

[justinmayer]

Use your browser's developer tools to view your console, and you will probably see that your stylesheet is not loading properly. That is expected behavior because in the latter case your stylesheet contains the full absolute URL path instead of the relative URL path.

Leave SITEURL as an empty string when developing locally, and only set it to your actual site domain in your production settings. This is how things should already be set up when using the Pelican quick-start script.

[Epy]

Hi
You can also use the setting: RELATIVE_URLS = True while developping in pelicanconf.py, and overriding it in publishconf.py file used for publishing online