Sphinx documentation inside a Flask running web application

Question

I\'ve locally built static Sphinx documentations (using make html).

I wish now to integrate the Sphinx files into my webapp that runs with Flask. From the

Answer 1

In some cases you do not want to expose your docs to all users so configuring at the Apache or Nginx level is not an option. The following worked for me:

@app.route('/docs', defaults = {'filename': 'index.html'})
@app.route('/docs/')
@login_required
def web_docs(filename):
    path = os.path.join('docs/html', filename)
    return app.send_static_file(path)