Allow server to access additional folders

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Hi,

In my gitbook there is an API documentation section, which is basically a static folder with tons of html files, generated by an external tool.

Right now I’m placing this folder in the gitbook build path, so that I can link to files inside it. However, gitbook serve does not allow the browser to access that folder.

A workaround is to open the local site via file browser and not via localhost:4000, but this approach is limited (think Disqus plugin). Running an additional HTTP server like python -m SimpleHTTPServer in the build path is another option, but that’s really awkward.

So perhaps there could be a setting allowing to access certain paths, like

{
  ...
  "allowPaths": ["apidoc", "videos/public", ...]
  ...
}

Or am I missing something?