Docly Developers
GuideUpdated 25 Oct 2026

Publishing a folder in Docly

Publish a folder to create websites from your Docly content. Make them available for the public or for invited people only.

Open a folder in Docly

Login and create or navigate to a folder you want to publish.

You can simply upload any HTML page or template to Docly and start working on it from there.

Before you can publish folders you have to apply for a publish domain:
https://developers.docly.net/Blog/2019/Setting-up-my-own-domain-in-Docly

Click the "Share Folder" button

It is located on your top toolbar to the far right.

Enter settings and publish

  • Address - Choose the domain and enter the path the folder is published to. To publish it at the domain itself, tick "At the domain root". To set up your own domain: https://developers.docly.net/Blog/2019/Setting-up-my-own-domain-in-Docly

  • Use an app - Turn it on to let an app run the site while the folder provides the content. Leave it off to publish the folder as it is.

  • Require login - On: only users invited to the folder can open it. Off: open to everyone.

Click publish when you have entered your desired settings.

For a full description of the settings, see Publishing a site.

Test your published folder

Click the link button to open your published folder in your browser:

Start adding content

NOTE! You are going to need to add an Index.html file in your folder before it works!

Learn about how the # folder works to setup your own content types and publish Docly documents.