Publish a docs site

Publish your documentation to the internet as a docs site

Once you’ve finished writing, editing, or importing your content, you can publish your work to the web as a docs site. Your docs will be published on the web and available to your selected audience.

The content on your site comes from spaces in your organization. When you create a new docs site, you can create a new space, or link an existing one.

GitBook's docs sites homepage.

Create a docs site

To create a docs site, click the plus + icon next to Docs site in the sidebar to launch the docs site wizard.

Give your site a name, choose a starting point for your content, and select whether you want to publish your site now or later.

If you already have content in a space that you would like to use, you can create a docs site directly from that space by opening the space and clicking Share in the top-right corner of the window. Then choosing Publish as a docs site from the share modal.

Publish a docs site

By default, your site will be published publicly. You can change your site’s visibility in your site’s settings.

There are three primary options to choose from when publishing your site:

Public

Publish your docs publicly to the web.

Privately with share links

Publish your docs with private share links.

Visitor Authentication

Protect your published docs behind an OAuth sign in.

Delete or unpublish a docs site

To delete a docs site, you’ll need to open your site’s dashboard, then open Site settings from the top-right corner.

Site editing permissions

Docs sites inherit the editing permissions from the spaces linked to them.

You can view all the permissions set for users with access to the docs site from the permissions modal from the docs site’s Overview page. You’ll also see which space the user’s permission was inherited from. If you’d like to change the permission settings, open the space, then click Share. Here you can edit the permissions from amodal.

Users with Administrator or Creator permissions on any space linked to a specific docs site will have full access permissions for the site. This means that they’ll be able to control any of the publishing and customization settings.

Users with Reviewer, Editor, Commenter, or Reader permissions on any space linked to a specific site will get read-only permissions. This means they will see the docs site in your organization, but won’t be able to access any of its settings.