opentofu/website/README.md

# OpenTofu Documentation

This directory contains the portions of [the OpenTofu website](https://opentofu.org) that pertain to the core functionality, excluding providers and the overall configuration.

## Development server

You can start a local development server with Docker by running the following command from this (the `website`) directory:

```
docker compose up --build
```

The development server will be available on http://localhost:3000/ .

## Suggesting Changes

You can [submit an issue](https://github.com/opentofu/opentofu/issues/new/choose) with documentation requests or submit a pull request with suggested changes.

Click **Edit this page** at the bottom of any OpenTofu website page to go directly to the associated markdown file in GitHub.

## Modifying Sidebar Navigation

You must update the sidebar navigation when you add or delete documentation .mdx files. If you do not update the navigation, the website deploy preview fails.

To update the sidebar navigation, you must edit the appropriate `nav-data.json` file. This repository contains the sidebar navigation files for the following documentation sets:

- OpenTofu Language: [`language-nav-data.json`](https://github.com/opentofu/opentofu/blob/main/website/data/language-nav-data.json)
- OpenTofu CLI: [`cli-nav-data.json`](https://github.com/opentofu/opentofu/blob/main/website/data/cli-nav-data.json)
- Introduction to OpenTofu: [`intro-nav-data.json`](https://github.com/opentofu/opentofu/blob/main/website/data/intro-nav-data.json)

## Previewing Changes

Currently, you can preview your changes through the [opentofu/opentofu.org](https://github.com/opentofu/opentofu.org/blob/main/README.md) repository.

Follow the [Getting Started](https://github.com/opentofu/opentofu.org/blob/main/README.md#getting-started) guide.

## Copyright headers for code examples

In order to not include copyright headers for code examples used in docs, please, add the files under `examples` folder. This way, it will be ignored on automated copyright headers check.