Default baseurl of replace-this-with-your-hugo-site.com is a very suspicious

[Deleted user]

Going through the quick start and noticed that a generated site contains the url "replace-this-with-your-hugo-site.com" as the default baseurl in config.toml (and in the docs). This url, which may be clicked unknowingly by a new user (I did, lol), and it's very suspicious (executed script redirecting to pages my adblocker dislikes and pops up notices about infected computer and plays beeping sounds, etc).

Here's a google search showing the link to this site. Now appears to forward through some advertising url to a real estate site.
https://www.google.com/#q=http:%2F%2Freplace-this-with-your-hugo-site.com%2F

Can we possibly replace the baseurl with something more benign like the gohugo.io url or something that won't resolve to a real domain? Doesn't seem like the ideal thing for a new user to see just when trying out Hugo. Even just dropping the ".com" would probably be an improvement.

Thanks very much. This is my first posted issue so hopefully it's in the right place. I'd be interested in contributing to Hugo's development at some point so let me know if I can help directly with this -- e.g., updating the code and docs.

[bep]

Thanks for the heads up, what those scammers will do to to earn a few extra cents is incredible.

[Deleted user]

Absolutely, you're welcome =)

[bep]

 find . -name "*.md" | xargs grep "replace-this-with-your-hugo-site.com"
./content/overview/quickstart.md:baseurl = "http://replace-this-with-your-hugo-site.com/"
./content/tutorials/creating-a-new-theme.md:baseurl = "http://replace-this-with-your-hugo-site.com/"
./content/tutorials/creating-a-new-theme.md:    <h1><a href="http://replace-this-with-your-hugo-site.com/article/second/">second</a></h1>
./content/tutorials/creating-a-new-theme.md:    <h1><a href="http://replace-this-with-your-hugo-site.com/article/first/">first</a></h1>
./content/tutorials/creating-a-new-theme.md:  <p><a href="http://replace-this-with-your-hugo-site.com/">Home</a></p>
./content/tutorials/creating-a-new-theme.md:  <p><a href="http://replace-this-with-your-hugo-site.com/">Home</a></p>
./content/tutorials/creating-a-new-theme.md:  <p><a href="http://replace-this-with-your-hugo-site.com/">Home</a></p>
./content/tutorials/creating-a-new-theme.md:    <h1><a href="http://replace-this-with-your-hugo-site.com/about/">about</a></h1>
./content/tutorials/creating-a-new-theme.md:    <h1><a href="http://replace-this-with-your-hugo-site.com/article/second/">second</a></h1>
./content/tutorials/creating-a-new-theme.md:    <h1><a href="http://replace-this-with-your-hugo-site.com/article/first/">first</a></h1>
./content/tutorials/creating-a-new-theme.md:      <h2><a href="http://replace-this-with-your-hugo-site.com/article/second/">second</a></h2>
./content/tutorials/creating-a-new-theme.md:      <h2><a href="http://replace-this-with-your-hugo-site.com/article/first/">first</a></h2>
./content/tutorials/creating-a-new-theme.md:      <h2><a href="http://replace-this-with-your-hugo-site.com/about/">about</a></h2>
./content/tutorials/creating-a-new-theme.md:  <p><a href="http://replace-this-with-your-hugo-site.com/">Home</a></p>
./content/tutorials/creating-a-new-theme.md:  <p><a href="http://replace-this-with-your-hugo-site.com/">Home</a></p>

Not sure what to put there, though ...

[knarz]

How about example.org?

[anthonyfok]

Thank you all for having this fixed! I should have known better than to have picked this somewhat convoluted domain name! Though it being registered by a spammer is a surprise to me. Lesson learned.

[LiaungYip]

I got caught by this as well.

In addition to the occurrences in the docs, a lot of themes have baseurl = "replace-this-with-your-hugo-site.com" in their default config.toml - Blackburn and hugo-material-docs, are some examples, I think.

See https://github.com/search?l=toml&q=replace-this-with-your-hugo-site&type=Code&utf8=%E2%9C%93 for ~600 examples in the wild.

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