An absolute path to '/...' is included in the 'nav' configuration, which presumably points to an external

[viceice]

We're getting this message when using this plugin:

An absolute path to '/...' is included in the 'nav' configuration, which presumably points to an external

We're not sure how to suppress that, because it will cause an error if we enable strict mkdocs checks.

• https://github.com/renovatebot/renovatebot.github.io/pull/305
• https://github.com/squidfunk/mkdocs-material/discussions/6318

[lukasgeiter]

Do you have an example that I could use to reproduce the issue?

[viceice]

only our repo / PR linked above, sorry.

[viceice]

will try to create a reproduction

[kamilkrzyskow]

@lukasgeiter This should do as a minimal reproduction, simple mkdocs new with all of the new validation features enabled. mkdocs-awesome-issue.zip I believe that validation of the nav comes before the plugin processes the ... in the mkdocs.yml nav

@viceice As for your case, have you tried removing the nav from the mkdocs.yml, do you really need that to insert the .pages navigation properly on the root level?

Most of the examples here https://github.com/lukasgeiter/mkdocs-awesome-pages-plugin#combine-custom-navigation--file-structure assume some deeper nesting than root, therefore I'm assuming it's not required.

[viceice]

@kamilkrzyskow will try

[viceice]

@kamilkrzyskow Thanks, removing nav from mkdoc.yml solved the error.