When using symlink edit source button leads to wrong source!

[newonlynew]

Hello!
I have 2 sections:

• Public API
• API

PublicAPI has BaseMiddleware.md and API has the same one. So the decision was to use symlink.
api/ folder is having all the objects in API so public API refers to some of them.

The symlink is:
public_api/ -> api/

The problem is that in Public API section all edit source buttons lead to public_api/BaseMiddleware.md which is considered wrong by github(no such file). Is it possible to make this buttons lead to api/BaseMiddleware.md instead?

[alexvoss]

I may be wrong but for this to work, MkDocs would need to recognise a file as a symbolic link and give it special handling. I am not aware of such functionality. You could try to suggest it in the MkDocs discussions.

A way to solve this yourself would be to create a hook that re-writes the edit URL for those symlinks. I am not sure how many people have the same problem but if you come up with a generic solution, this might make a good contribution for show & tell?!