base_url configuration not doing anything

[jlconlin]

I just started using jekyll-mentions and would like to customize the base_url. It seems no matter what I try, the link always points to GitHub.

In my content I have something like:

## testing
This @jlconlin guy is really great

That makes a link to https://github.com/jlconlin.

What I'd really like is to point to a local page using this:

jekyll-mentions: http://localhost:4000/people/

But that still points to GitHub. I can't even get the example in the README to work:

jekyll-mentions: https://twitter.com

as that still points to GitHub instead of Twitter.

I'm using Jekyll 4.2.1 and just installed the jekyll-mentions this morning (version 1.6.0).

Am I doing something wrong?

[ashmaroli]

It works at my end. So you're doing something wrong. Try:

• Ensure that you restart the local server after changing your config file.
• YAML is indentation-sensitive. Ensure that your config entry is flush to the beginning of line.

[jlconlin]

I was using jekyll_mentions and it should be jekyll-mentions; the difference between a hyphen and an underscore. Yes, it does work. Sorry for the hassle.