link to externally generated static content in the same site

[ben-marengo-msmg]

i have database schema documentation that is generated by another tool. i'd like to link to it using mkdocs.

consider the following setup:

docs/database-docs.md

# database docs

[all schema docs](../externally-generated-content/databases/)
[my-db1 schema docs](../externally-generated-content/databases/my-db1.html)
[my-db2 schema docs](../externally-generated-content/databases/my-db2.html)

scenario 1
i run mkdocs serve
which succeeds, but, as expected, displays WARNING - Documentation file 'database-docs.md' contains a link to '../externally-generated-content/databases/my-db1.html' which is not found in the documentation files.

i then copy my externally-generated-content into the site dir

now i visit

1. http://127.0.0.1:8000/externally-generated-content/databases/ (directory of html files)
2. http://127.0.0.1:8000/externally-generated-content/databases/my-db1.html (db documentation)
3. http://127.0.0.1:8000/xyz (doesnt exist)

all show the mkdocs 404 page

scenario 2
i run mkdocs build
which succeeds, but, as expected, displays WARNING - Documentation file 'database-docs.md' contains a link to '../externally-generated-content/databases/my-db1.html' which is not found in the documentation files.

i then copy my externally-generated-content into the site dir

now i docker run -p "8000:80" -v "${PWD}/site/:/usr/local/apache2/htdocs/" --name docs --rm httpd:2.4

and visit the same urls

1. http://127.0.0.1:8000/externally-generated-content/databases/ (directory of html files)
2. http://127.0.0.1:8000/externally-generated-content/databases/my-db1.html (db documentation)
3. http://127.0.0.1:8000/xyz (doesnt exist)

visiting 1 shows me the static directory listing of all html files
visiting 2 shows me the database documentation html
visiting 3 shows apache 404 page

my desired behaviour:
1 shows me the static directory listing of all html files
2 shows me the database documentation html
3 shows mkdocs 404 page

is it possible to register static routes that are ignored by mkdocs routing in order to get my desired behaviour?

[squidfunk]

Thanks for asking. I'm not sure how to tell MkDocs to ignore those files, so it might be a good idea asking the maintainers of MkDocs by posting on their discussion board. If you manage to solve the problem, let us know.