3 The [Nominatim documentation](https://nominatim.org/release-docs/develop/) is built using the [MkDocs](https://www.mkdocs.org/) static site generation framework. The master branch is automatically deployed every night on under [https://nominatim.org/release-docs/develop/](https://nominatim.org/release-docs/develop/)
5 To preview local changes, first install MkDocs
8 pip3 install --user mkdocs
11 If `mkdocs` can't be found after the installation, the $PATH might have not
12 be set correctly yet. Try opening a new terminal session.
15 Then go to the build directory and run
19 INFO - Cleaning site directory
20 INFO - Building documentation to directory: /home/vagrant/build/site-html
23 This runs `mkdocs build` plus extra transformation of some files and adds
24 symlinks (see `CMakeLists.txt` for the exact steps).
26 Now you can start webserver for local testing
30 [server:296] Serving on http://127.0.0.1:8000
31 [handlers:62] Start watching changes
34 If you develop inside a Vagrant virtual machine:
36 * add port forwarding to your Vagrantfile,
37 e.g. `config.vm.network "forwarded_port", guest: 8000, host: 8000`
38 * use `mkdocs serve --dev-addr 0.0.0.0:8000` because the default localhost
39 IP does not get forwarded.