# Custom content dir or support absolute internal link

**URL:** <https://zola.discourse.group/t/custom-content-dir-or-support-absolute-internal-link/1242>\
**Category:** Feature requests\
**Created:** [March 23, 2022, 5:49pm UTC](https://zola.discourse.group/t/custom-content-dir-or-support-absolute-internal-link/1242 "2022-03-23T17:49:10Z")\
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**Author:** ![keats](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/34f0e0/32.png) [@keats](https://zola.discourse.group/u/keats)\
**Post date:** [March 24, 2022, 12:07pm UTC](https://zola.discourse.group/t/custom-content-dir-or-support-absolute-internal-link/1242/2 "2022-03-24T12:07:28Z")

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> [@theowenyoung](#):
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> Internal Link is the most painful for me on Zola. I don’t want to bind Zola deeply, this will let Zola become the only service to understand my plain document.

You can search & replace `](@/content/` by `](` and end up with your no reference of zola and just the relative path to the md file, that doesn’t seem like a lock in?

> [@theowenyoung](#):
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> Treat `content/xxx.md` as `@/xxx.md` , so the following link will work well both local and Zola.

Those are potentially referring to 2 different things so they cannot be equivalent.

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