How to flatten folder structure for a website

[ramnathk]

Description

I have a folder structure like so
/

• _quarto.yml
• index.qmd
• contents/
  • chapter1
    • chapter1.qmd
  • chapter2
    • chapter2.qmd

I want to render to a site where the url structure is domain.com/chapter1.html and domain.com/index.html

The "Contents" folder and subfolders within a places to have parts of the chapter content which are then assembled into a final 'ChapterN.qmd' using a shell script.

Currently when I render this, the url for chapter1.html is domain1.com/contents/chapter1/chapter1.html and I dont want that.

[ramnathk]

FWIW the workaround I have for now that works is to copy all the final QMDs and the quarto.yml into a temp folder and render that. The _site folder now sits within this temp folder which is kludgy (maybe). But wonder if there is a better solution to this

[mcanouil]

Either that or set aliases everywhere.

The input structure being reflected in the output is by design.