Configure a specific synchronization

You can configure how GitBook should parse your Git repository using the.gitbook.yaml file that must rely on the root of your repository.‌

Here is an example:

root: ./
​
​structure:  
    readme: README.md  
    summary: SUMMARY.md​
    
redirects:  
    previous/page: new-folder/page.md

​🦷 Root

Path to lookup for your documentation defaults to the root directory of the repository. Here's how you can tell GitBook to look into a "docs" folder:

root: ./docs/

All other options that specify paths will be relative to this root folder. So if you define root as ./docs/ and then structure.summary as ./product/SUMMARY.md, GitBook will actually look for a file in ./docs/product/SUMMARY.md.‌

​ 🧱 Structure‌

The structure accepts two properties:‌

• readme: Your documentation's first page. Its default value is ./README.md

• summary: Your documentation's table of content. Its default value is ./SUMMARY.md

The value of those properties is a path to the corresponding files. The path is relative to the "root" option. For example, here's how you can tell GitBook to look into a ./product folder for the first page and summary:

structure:  
    readme: ./product/README.md
    summary: ./product/SUMMARY.md

​ 📝 Summary‌

The summary file is a Markdown file (.md) that should have the following structure:

‌# Summary​
​
## Use headings to create page groups like this one​
​
* [First page's title](page1/README.md)    
    * [Some child page](page1/page1-1.md)    
    * [Some other child page](part1/page1-2.md)
    
* [Second page's title](page2/README.md)    
    * [Some child page](page2/page2-1.md)    
    * [Some other child page](part2/page2-2.md)    
    
## A second-page group​
​
* [Yet another page](another-page.md)

Providing a custom summary file is optional. By default, GitBook will look for a file named SUMMARY.md in your root folder if specified in your config file, or at the root of the repository otherwise.

If you don't specify a summary, and GitBook does not find a SUMMARY.md file at the root of your docs, GitBook will infer the table of contents from the folder structure and the Markdown files below.‌

​ ↪ Redirects

You can create custom redirects of a URL to a page by specifying the path to the corresponding file. The path is relative to the "root" option. For example, here's how you can tell GitBook to redirect users accessing /help to the support page:

redirects:  
    help: ./support.md

Here's how you can deal with a more complex URL:

redirects:  
    help/contact: ./contact.md