Is it possible to turn off "not inside the base site directory" check?

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I’m building a multilingual site with a separate domain for each language.

Both sites share the same static content with lots of CSS, JS, images.

I came up with the following directory structure:

├── example.de/
│   ├── templates/
│   ├── content/
│   ├── static/   <------ symlink to ../static/
│   └── config.toml
├── example.fr/
│   ├── templates/
│   ├── content/
│   ├── static/   <------ symlink to ../static/
│   └── config.toml
├── static/

Inside static/ is manifest.json generated by Javascript framework that I use, which is loaded into Zola’s templates like so:

{% set manifest = load_data(path="static/manifest.json") %}

It does not work because:

Reason: Function call 'load_data' failed
Reason: `load_data`: "static/manifest.json" is not inside the base site directory <...>

This check (that smth is inside base dir) is completely ruining my otherwise optimal workflow.

Is there any way to disable it?

2

Not possible currently no. It could be disabled when a theme is not used but I’m not sure it’s worth it

3

Pity. I wish it was either possible to configure paths in the config (e.g. set static_dir to “…/static”) or disable this check. Thanks for your work.