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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

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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 
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  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 --- 
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