Change website root path

[lz100]

Description

Hello Quarto folks,

I have a repo to store website content, it's like:

.
├── index.qmd
├── _qaurto.yml
├── .git
├── assets
│   ├── ...
├── section 1
│   └── ... qmd
├── section2
│   ├──... qmd
├── _extensions
│   └── ...
└── about.qmd
├── many other things

All the qmds are stored in the root or one directory under root. This makes the root messy. I want to place all qmds into one directory and use that as my root for the website. How do I change the config?

.
├── index.qmd
├── assets
│   ├── ...
├── content
│   ├── index.qmd
│   ├── section 1
│   ├── ....qmd
│   └── about.qmd
├── many other things

my config look like this:

project:
  type: website
  
website:
  reader-mode: false
  site-path: "/content"
  navbar:
    left:
      - text: "DSM Workflows Wiki"
        file: content/index.qmd

1. I still have to use content prefix for all qmds, otherwise not found.
2. when I preview the website, no matter I set site-path to "/" or "/content", it's always giving me "localhost:1234/content/xxx"

All I want is to put all qmds to /content but when it website builds, the root is localhost:1234/.

[mcanouil]

Currently, the location of your Quarto documents defines the location of the documents you produce.

This is discussed in several other threads:

• Is there a way to serve all the content in a folder as root? #6198
• How to define the root folder for my qmd content #6093

site-path is for the host, not your local files, see https://quarto.org/docs/websites/website-navigation.html#pages-404.

[lz100]

Thanks Mickaël! My current workaround is use output-dir: ../out and run quarto render ./content. Hope there will be a more convenient way to solve the problem.