make new copies the clean project and creates a "docs" folder

use

sphinx-quickstart

options different from default for the quickstart I used:

doc root : new_project/docs separate source and build : y projectname: test author : test_author version : 0.1 autodoc docstrings : y windows cmd file : n

then go to new_project/docs

and execute

make html

This produces a nearly empty index page that goes nowhere and does nothing.