DocPad: Absolute URL Helper

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DocPad: Absolute URL Helper

Uses a docpad configuration file to specify template data that we can use in our document to generate absolute urls.

docpad.coffee

module.exports = 

	# =================================
	# Template Data
	# These are variables that will be accessible via our templates

	templateData:

		# Site Information
		site:

			# Site Production URL
			url: 'http://your-website.com'



		# -----------------------------
		# Helpers

		# Get the Absolute URL of a document
		getUrl: (document) ->
			return @site.url + (document.url or document.get?('url'))

document.html.eco

Via helper: <a href="<%= @getUrl(@document) %>">visit me</a>

Without helper: <a href="<%= @site.url+@document.url %>">visit me</a>

WIP: https://github.com/Hypercubed/docpad-plugin-geturl/

Comments welcome.

Is there any way to get the actual relative URL, see http://stackoverflow.com/questions/19252513/how-to-get-the-relative-url-for-the-rendered-document ?

I need to output for several different websites which share some content but also have unique content. Basically the sites are focused on specific countries, but some content references multiple countries (and so is on all sites (and this is fine with Google).

E.g.,
nepal.com/projects // unique content to this site
nepal.com/summer-volunteering-in-south-asia // shared content
india.com/projects // unique content to this site
nepal.com/summer-volunteering-in-south-asia // shared content (identical to above)

How should I organize using docpad? Should this be two different docpad installations where I manually copy the shared content? Or can this be one docpad but use folders/subfolders such as:

/india-projects
/summer-volunteering-in-south-asia
/nepal-projects

And then produce multiple static sites (or a single site with inbound redirection/rewrite of base URL based on site request)?