How-to guides: project setup and configuration

The following how-to guides help you solve common tasks and challenges in the setup and configuration stages.

⏩️ Connecting your Read the Docs account to your Git provider

Steps to connect an account on GitHub, Bitbucket, or GitLab with your Read the Docs account.

⏩️ Configuring a Git repository automatically

Once your account is connected to your Git provider, adding and configuring a Git repository automatically is possible for GitHub, Bitbucket, and GitLab.

⏩️ Configuring a Git repository manually

If you are connecting a Git repository from another provider (for instance Gitea or Codeberg), this guide tells you how to add and configure the webhook manually.

⏩️ Managing custom domains

Hosting your documentation using your own domain name, such as docs.example.com.

⏩️ Using custom URL redirects in documentation projects

Configuring your Read the Docs project for redirecting visitors from one location to another.

⏩️ Managing subprojects

Need several projects under the same umbrella? Start using subprojects, which is a way to host multiple projects under a “main project”.

⏩️ Using a .readthedocs.yaml file in a sub-folder

This guide shows how to configure a Read the Docs project to use a custom path for the .readthedocs.yaml build configuration. Monorepos that have multiple documentation projects in the same Git repository can benefit from this feature.

⏩️ Hiding a version

Is your version (flyout) menu overwhelmed and hard to navigate? Here’s how to make it shorter.

⏩️ Changing the versioning scheme of your project

Change how the URLs of your documentation look like, and if your project supports multiple versions or translations.

See also

Read the Docs tutorial

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