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strawberry starter site on itch: styles and links not working

A topic by lavieenmeow created Jan 20, 2026 Views: 88 Replies: 2
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Hi! I've been successfully using strawberry starter for a neocities site--thank you! Now, I've used it to write a story that I want to share on itch. It works fine on the local dev server, but when I zip the _site directory and upload to itch, the styles and navigation don't work. The styles and posts are there, where they should be, but I wonder if something is happening to the relative links when I upload to itch?  Thanks very much!

Developer(+1)

Hey!

Strawberry Starter wasn't really designed for this, sadly. When you upload a project with multiple html files on itch, it gets hosted on itch's content delivery server (html-classic.itch.zone). What that means is that if you have any absolute paths in your project (starts with a "/", e.g. "/post/folder/whatever.md") they'll be broken. You need to use relative paths (e.g. "../../post/folder/whatever.md").

Basically you'd have to edit the 11ty template itself and remove all the absolute paths, probably by writing a filter for all the links. Sorry!

Ah, I see. Thanks for clarifying, and thanks for creating this tool, which I'll definitely continue to use on neocities :)!