Control index.xml for Atom/RSS (hugo / blogdown generates feed with relative links)

Question

Which parameters in config.toml or which files in /layouts control the generation of index.xml?

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Answer 1

1. You need a full baseURL in config.toml (see Section 2.2 of the blogdown book);
2. I recommend you to publish your website via Github and Netlify (Section 3.1). Don't use the public/ directory build locally on your computer. Build it on the server side instead. If you must build your site locally, every time before you publish the public/ folder, make sure that you run blogdown::hugo_build() (Section 1.7).

For the reason why your RSS feed contains relative URLs, see Appendix D.3 (short answer: baseurl = "/").