baseURL is changing after build_site()

Question

When using Academic theme and building using blogdown in Rstudio, the baseurl is not preserved. My menu items link to https://heima.hafro.is/#experience instead of https://heima.hafro.is/~jim/#experience I have tried

baseURL: https://heima.hafro.is/~jim/ 

and

baseURL: "https://heima.hafro.is/~jim/"

in my config.yaml Everything works when I use serve_site() This site used to build a few months ago without problems, but have updated packages, and something has broke. Tried rolling back blogdown but no luck.

Answer 1

I found a workaround, instead of giving baseURL in the config.yaml, specify it when building the site i.e.

blogdown::build_site(baseURL = "https://heima.hafro.is/~jim/")