Sign Up

Sign Up to our social questions and Answers Engine to ask questions, answer people’s questions, and connect with other people.

Have an account? Sign In

Have an account? Sign In Now

Sign In

Login to our social questions & Answers Engine to ask questions answer people’s questions & connect with other people.

Sign Up Here

Forgot Password?

Don't have account, Sign Up Here

Forgot Password

Lost your password? Please enter your email address. You will receive a link and will create a new password via email.

Have an account? Sign In Now

You must login to ask a question.

Forgot Password?

Need An Account, Sign Up Here

Please briefly explain why you feel this question should be reported.

Please briefly explain why you feel this answer should be reported.

Please briefly explain why you feel this user should be reported.

Sign InSign Up

The Archive Base

The Archive Base Logo The Archive Base Logo

The Archive Base Navigation

  • SEARCH
  • Home
  • About Us
  • Blog
  • Contact Us
Search
Ask A Question

Mobile menu

Close
Ask a Question
  • Home
  • Add group
  • Groups page
  • Feed
  • User Profile
  • Communities
  • Questions
    • New Questions
    • Trending Questions
    • Must read Questions
    • Hot Questions
  • Polls
  • Tags
  • Badges
  • Buy Points
  • Users
  • Help
  • Buy Theme
  • SEARCH
Home/ Questions/Q 136621
In Process

The Archive Base Latest Questions

Editorial Team
  • 0
Editorial Team
Asked: May 11, 20262026-05-11T06:58:39+00:00 2026-05-11T06:58:39+00:00

Basepath Filter Rewriting? I’m trying to use the basepath filter in webby to rewrite

  • 0

Basepath Filter Rewriting?

I’m trying to use the basepath filter in webby to rewrite all of the URLs in my project.

The documentation on the basepath filter for Webby is a little bit "light" concerning this, and there just simply isn’t enough of it that I can understand how to use it.

If I find the solution to this, however I plan to contribute some documentation to the project.

I also understand that in order for this to work, I’m supposed to have all of my paths for the URLs it rewrites to start with "/".

I’ve tried applying the filter like so, to my default.txt template…

--- extension: html filter:    erb        basepath --- 

** – Top of layouts/default.txt**

Then I run the command:

leeand00@someHost: webby rebuild BASE='http://www.yahoo.com/bob/' 

** – Running the command from the root directory of the project**

but all I get is an error…

** Invoke rebuild (first_time) ** Invoke configure_basepath (first_time) ** Execute configure_basepath ** Execute rebuild webby aborted! syntax error on line 4, col 0: `---' /usr/lib/ruby/1.8/yaml.rb:133:in `load' /usr/lib/ruby/1.8/yaml.rb:133:in `load' /var/lib/gems/1.8/gems/webby-0.9.3/lib/webby/resources/meta_file.rb:164:in `meta_data' /var/lib/gems/1.8/gems/webby-0.9.3/lib/webby/resources/meta_file.rb:51:in `meta_data' /var/lib/gems/1.8/gems/webby-0.9.3/lib/webby/resources/meta_file.rb:51:in `open' /var/lib/gems/1.8/gems/webby-0.9.3/lib/webby/resources/meta_file.rb:51:in `meta_data' /var/lib/gems/1.8/gems/webby-0.9.3/lib/webby/resources/layout.rb:19:in `initialize' /var/lib/gems/1.8/gems/webby-0.9.3/lib/webby/resources.rb:41:in `new' /var/lib/gems/1.8/gems/webby-0.9.3/lib/webby/resources.rb:41:in `new' /var/lib/gems/1.8/gems/webby-0.9.3/lib/webby/builder.rb:167:in `load_files' /usr/lib/ruby/1.8/find.rb:39:in `find' /usr/lib/ruby/1.8/find.rb:38:in `catch' /usr/lib/ruby/1.8/find.rb:38:in `find' /var/lib/gems/1.8/gems/webby-0.9.3/lib/webby/builder.rb:164:in `load_files' /var/lib/gems/1.8/gems/webby-0.9.3/lib/webby/builder.rb:134:in `run' /var/lib/gems/1.8/gems/webby-0.9.3/lib/webby/builder.rb:23:in `run' /var/lib/gems/1.8/gems/webby-0.9.3/lib/webby/tasks/build.rake:13 /var/lib/gems/1.8/gems/rake-0.8.3/lib/rake.rb:615:in `call' /var/lib/gems/1.8/gems/rake-0.8.3/lib/rake.rb:615:in `execute' /var/lib/gems/1.8/gems/rake-0.8.3/lib/rake.rb:612:in `each' /var/lib/gems/1.8/gems/rake-0.8.3/lib/rake.rb:612:in `execute' /var/lib/gems/1.8/gems/rake-0.8.3/lib/rake.rb:578:in `invoke_with_call_chain' /usr/lib/ruby/1.8/monitor.rb:242:in `synchronize' /var/lib/gems/1.8/gems/rake-0.8.3/lib/rake.rb:571:in `invoke_with_call_chain' /var/lib/gems/1.8/gems/rake-0.8.3/lib/rake.rb:564:in `invoke' /var/lib/gems/1.8/gems/rake-0.8.3/lib/rake.rb:2019:in `invoke_task' /var/lib/gems/1.8/gems/rake-0.8.3/lib/rake.rb:1997:in `top_level' /var/lib/gems/1.8/gems/rake-0.8.3/lib/rake.rb:1997:in `each' /var/lib/gems/1.8/gems/rake-0.8.3/lib/rake.rb:1997:in `top_level' /var/lib/gems/1.8/gems/webby-0.9.3/lib/webby/apps/main.rb:232:in `standard_exception_handling' /var/lib/gems/1.8/gems/rake-0.8.3/lib/rake.rb:1991:in `top_level' /var/lib/gems/1.8/gems/webby-0.9.3/lib/webby/apps/main.rb:115:in `rake' /var/lib/gems/1.8/gems/webby-0.9.3/lib/webby/apps/main.rb:33:in `run' /var/lib/gems/1.8/gems/webby-0.9.3/lib/webby/apps/main.rb:12:in `run' /var/lib/gems/1.8/gems/webby-0.9.3/bin/webby:39 /var/lib/gems/1.8/bin/webby:19:in `load' /var/lib/gems/1.8/bin/webby:19 leeand00@U101:~/J62$ webby --trace rebuild BASE='http://www.yahoo.com/bob/' ** Invoke rebuild (first_time) ** Invoke configure_basepath (first_time) ** Execute configure_basepath ** Execute rebuild webby aborted! syntax error on line 4, col 0: `---' /usr/lib/ruby/1.8/yaml.rb:133:in `load' /usr/lib/ruby/1.8/yaml.rb:133:in `load' /var/lib/gems/1.8/gems/webby-0.9.3/lib/webby/resources/meta_file.rb:164:in `meta_data' /var/lib/gems/1.8/gems/webby-0.9.3/lib/webby/resources/meta_file.rb:51:in `meta_data' /var/lib/gems/1.8/gems/webby-0.9.3/lib/webby/resources/meta_file.rb:51:in `open' /var/lib/gems/1.8/gems/webby-0.9.3/lib/webby/resources/meta_file.rb:51:in `meta_data' /var/lib/gems/1.8/gems/webby-0.9.3/lib/webby/resources/layout.rb:19:in `initialize' /var/lib/gems/1.8/gems/webby-0.9.3/lib/webby/resources.rb:41:in `new' /var/lib/gems/1.8/gems/webby-0.9.3/lib/webby/resources.rb:41:in `new' /var/lib/gems/1.8/gems/webby-0.9.3/lib/webby/builder.rb:167:in `load_files' /usr/lib/ruby/1.8/find.rb:39:in `find' /usr/lib/ruby/1.8/find.rb:38:in `catch' /usr/lib/ruby/1.8/find.rb:38:in `find' /var/lib/gems/1.8/gems/webby-0.9.3/lib/webby/builder.rb:164:in `load_files' /var/lib/gems/1.8/gems/webby-0.9.3/lib/webby/builder.rb:134:in `run' /var/lib/gems/1.8/gems/webby-0.9.3/lib/webby/builder.rb:23:in `run' /var/lib/gems/1.8/gems/webby-0.9.3/lib/webby/tasks/build.rake:13 /var/lib/gems/1.8/gems/rake-0.8.3/lib/rake.rb:615:in `call' /var/lib/gems/1.8/gems/rake-0.8.3/lib/rake.rb:615:in `execute' /var/lib/gems/1.8/gems/rake-0.8.3/lib/rake.rb:612:in `each' /var/lib/gems/1.8/gems/rake-0.8.3/lib/rake.rb:612:in `execute' /var/lib/gems/1.8/gems/rake-0.8.3/lib/rake.rb:578:in `invoke_with_call_chain' /usr/lib/ruby/1.8/monitor.rb:242:in `synchronize' /var/lib/gems/1.8/gems/rake-0.8.3/lib/rake.rb:571:in `invoke_with_call_chain' /var/lib/gems/1.8/gems/rake-0.8.3/lib/rake.rb:564:in `invoke' /var/lib/gems/1.8/gems/rake-0.8.3/lib/rake.rb:2019:in `invoke_task' /var/lib/gems/1.8/gems/rake-0.8.3/lib/rake.rb:1997:in `top_level' /var/lib/gems/1.8/gems/rake-0.8.3/lib/rake.rb:1997:in `each' /var/lib/gems/1.8/gems/rake-0.8.3/lib/rake.rb:1997:in `top_level' /var/lib/gems/1.8/gems/webby-0.9.3/lib/webby/apps/main.rb:232:in `standard_exception_handling' /var/lib/gems/1.8/gems/rake-0.8.3/lib/rake.rb:1991:in `top_level' /var/lib/gems/1.8/gems/webby-0.9.3/lib/webby/apps/main.rb:115:in `rake' /var/lib/gems/1.8/gems/webby-0.9.3/lib/webby/apps/main.rb:33:in `run' /var/lib/gems/1.8/gems/webby-0.9.3/lib/webby/apps/main.rb:12:in `run' /var/lib/gems/1.8/gems/webby-0.9.3/bin/webby:39 /var/lib/gems/1.8/bin/webby:19:in `load' /var/lib/gems/1.8/bin/webby:19 
  • 1 1 Answer
  • 0 Views
  • 0 Followers
  • 0
Share
  • Facebook
  • Report

Leave an answer
Cancel reply

You must login to add an answer.

Forgot Password?

Need An Account, Sign Up Here

1 Answer

  • Voted
  • Oldest
  • Recent
  • Random
  1. 2026-05-11T06:58:39+00:00Added an answer on May 11, 2026 at 6:58 am

    Try changing your filters section so that it uses valid webby syntax. It should look like this:

    --- extension: html filter:   - erb   - basepath --- 
    • 0
    • Reply
    • Share
      Share
      • Share on Facebook
      • Share on Twitter
      • Share on LinkedIn
      • Share on WhatsApp
      • Report

Sidebar

Ask A Question

Stats

  • Questions 124k
  • Answers 124k
  • Best Answers 0
  • User 1
  • Popular
  • Answers
  • Editorial Team

    How to approach applying for a job at a company ...

    • 7 Answers
  • Editorial Team

    How to handle personal stress caused by utterly incompetent and ...

    • 5 Answers
  • Editorial Team

    What is a programmer’s life like?

    • 5 Answers
  • Editorial Team
    Editorial Team added an answer Are you running on OS 3.0? I saw the same… May 12, 2026 at 1:19 am
  • Editorial Team
    Editorial Team added an answer It looks like you need to register Apache::Session::Memcached with Apache::Session::Wrapper,… May 12, 2026 at 1:19 am
  • Editorial Team
    Editorial Team added an answer Use DATENAME or DATEPART: SELECT DATENAME(dw,GETDATE()) -- Friday SELECT DATEPART(dw,GETDATE())… May 12, 2026 at 1:19 am

Related Questions

Basepath Filter Rewriting? I'm trying to use the basepath filter in webby to rewrite
Okay so im working on this php image upload system but for some reason
I want to load one or more DLLs dynamically so that they run with
I have a simple grails file upload app. I am using transferTo to save
We need to reliably get the Quick Launch folder for both All and Current

Trending Tags

analytics british company computer developers django employee employer english facebook french google interview javascript language life php programmer programs salary

Top Members

Explore

  • Home
  • Add group
  • Groups page
  • Communities
  • Questions
    • New Questions
    • Trending Questions
    • Must read Questions
    • Hot Questions
  • Polls
  • Tags
  • Badges
  • Users
  • Help
  • SEARCH

Footer

© 2021 The Archive Base. All Rights Reserved
With Love by The Archive Base

Insert/edit link

Enter the destination URL

Or link to existing content

    No search term specified. Showing recent items. Search or use up and down arrow keys to select an item.