Closes [DOCS-415](https://linear.app/codercom/issue/DOCS-415).
## TL;DR
Repoints 7 broken links across 5 docs files that the 2026-06-22 weekly
`check-docs.yml` Linkspector run flagged. Two other links from the same
run (the dead `nix` ref and the dead `reflectoring.io` ref in
`CONTRIBUTING.md`) were already folded into
[#26341](https://github.com/coder/coder/pull/26341).
## Why
Broken external and anchor links degrade reader trust, leak SEO juice,
and make the docs look stale. The weekly `check-docs` job exists
precisely to catch this kind of rot before customers do; the
surfacing-to-fix turnaround on these 7 is one PR. Run that surfaced
them: [actions/runs/27948011619 job
82697664858](https://github.com/coder/coder/actions/runs/27948011619/job/82697664858).
## Scope
| File | Line(s) | Old target | New target | Why |
|------|---------|-----------|------------|-----|
| `docs/tutorials/best-practices/organizations.md` | 62 | anchor
`#update-template-metadata-by-id` | `#update-template-settings-by-id` |
API endpoint renamed in
[#19228](https://github.com/coder/coder/pull/19228) (Aug 2025). New
heading at line 1105 of `docs/reference/api/templates.md`. |
| `docs/install/registry-mirror-artifactory.md` | 197 | JFrog
`terraform-registry` |
`terraform-opentofu-and-terraform-backend-repositories` | JFrog
consolidated their Terraform / OpenTofu / Backend docs into a single
page. |
| `docs/admin/templates/extending-templates/modules.md` | 76, 206 |
JFrog `set-up-a-terraform-module/provider-registry` and
`terraform-registry` | same consolidated JFrog page (root, no anchor) |
Same JFrog consolidation. Anchor dropped, see decision log. |
| `docs/admin/integrations/dx-data-cloud.md` | 84 |
`https://help.getdx.com/en/` | `https://docs.getdx.com/` | DX migrated
their help center to a separate docs domain. |
| `docs/about/contributing/frontend.md` | 37, 71 |
`https://reactrouter.com/en/main` | `https://reactrouter.com/` | React
Router dropped the `/en/main` prefix. |
## Validation
- All 7 replacement URLs return HTTP 200 (manual `curl -L -o /dev/null
-w '%{http_code}'` per URL; linkspector's puppeteer crashed in the agent
env, so it was run case-by-case)
- `make lint/markdown lint/emdash` clean locally
- Pre-commit hook (`scripts/githooks/pre-commit` -> `make
pre-commit-light`) clean
- No `/docs/` route changes; pure markdown content
## Not triggering `/coder-agents-review`
Docs-only markdown edit, no CI or build config changes; per `AGENTS.md`
the bot review is reserved for product / CI changes. `doc-check` handles
this category.
## Pre-mortem
| Concern | Mitigation |
|---|---|
| Replacement URL also turns out to be broken later | All 7 verified
HTTP 200 today; next weekly `check-docs` run will catch any future
regression. |
| JFrog anchor drop on `modules.md` (76, 206) loses navigation context |
Verified the consolidated JFrog page has no clean section anchor for the
original target; linking the root page is the honest fix. If JFrog ships
a better TOC anchor later, a follow-up can reattach. |
| Anchor rename in `organizations.md` was actually a different rename |
Confirmed via PR #19228 (Aug 2025) which is the exact rename that
produced `## Update template settings by ID`. |
<details>
<summary>Decision log</summary>
**Why drop the anchor on the JFrog `modules.md` links (76 + 206)**:
JFrog's new consolidated page
(`/terraform-opentofu-and-terraform-backend-repositories`) doesn't
expose the original `set-up-a-terraform-module/provider-registry`
section as a fragment-link target. The honest fix is to link the page
root; readers can scroll. The `registry-mirror-artifactory.md:197`
reference uses the same root link for symmetry.
**Why DX `docs.getdx.com` over `help.getdx.com`**: DX's help center at
`help.getdx.com/en/` now returns 404. They moved to a separate
`docs.getdx.com` domain with a different content structure. Linking the
docs root is the closest analog to the original "browse our docs"
intent.
**Why React Router root over `/en/main`**: React Router unified their
docs under the root URL. The `/en/main` prefix is no longer routable.
The root URL is the canonical successor.
</details>
<details>
<summary>CI: <code>audit-docs-paths</code> failure (pre-existing,
unrelated)</summary>
The `audit-docs-paths` job in `.github/workflows/weekly-docs.yaml` fails
on this PR because its `Fetch redirects.json` step issues an
unauthenticated `curl` to a file in private `coder/coder.com` and gets a
404 (exit code 22). Same failure on every recent PR in this repo.
Tracked in [DOCS-409](https://linear.app/codercom/issue/DOCS-409) and
fixed in [#26571](https://github.com/coder/coder/pull/26571), which
authenticates the fetch through the Contents API. My changes are
docs-content only (5 markdown files, 7 line changes) and don't touch the
TS/TSX paths or `redirects.json` that the audit examines, so this is a
pre-existing CI break, not a regression introduced here.
</details>
---
*Generated by Coder Agents on @nickvigilante's behalf.*
Closes [DOCS-351](https://linear.app/codercom/issue/DOCS-351).
> [!WARNING]
> **DO NOT MERGE** until
[DOCS-349](https://linear.app/codercom/issue/DOCS-349)
([coder.com#877](https://github.com/coder/coder.com/pull/877)) has
shipped to production and baked for at least one Vercel cycle.
>
> Without DOCS-349, the relative links in this PR resolve to broken
docs-route URLs (`/docs/helm/coder/values.yaml` -> 404) instead of
GitHub URLs tagged with the displayed docs version. DOCS-349 fixes the
rewriter to classify these as GitHub blob/tree URLs with the page's
resolved ref.
## TL;DR
Converts 121 absolute
`https://github.com/coder/coder/(blob|tree)/main/<path>` links across 39
docs markdown files to relative paths. After this lands AND DOCS-349
deploys, every one of these links will follow the displayed docs version
(mainline tag on bare URLs, explicit tag on `/@vX.Y.Z/`, `main` on
`/@main/`) instead of always pointing to `main`.
## Why
Today a reader on `/docs/@v2.30.0/install/docker` follows a
`compose.yaml` link and arrives at `main`'s `compose.yaml`, which
doesn't necessarily match what the docs page describes. Helm values,
Terraform templates, and source-code references in particular drift
across versions. The fix is to let the coder.com rewriter substitute the
page's resolved ref into the URL; that only works on relative links.
## Example payoff (post-DOCS-349)
| URL | Today (absolute, always `main`) | After (relative + rewriter) |
|---|---|---|
| `/docs/install/docker` |
`https://github.com/coder/coder/blob/main/compose.yaml` |
`https://github.com/coder/coder/blob/v2.34.1/compose.yaml` (today's
mainline) |
| `/docs/@v2.30.0/install/docker` | same as above |
`https://github.com/coder/coder/blob/v2.30.0/compose.yaml` |
| `/docs/@main/install/docker` | same as above |
`https://github.com/coder/coder/blob/main/compose.yaml` |
## Scope
- **121 conversions** across **39 files**.
- Verb breakdown: `tree/main` (directories) and `blob/main` (files),
both flipped to relative paths.
- Line anchors (`#L23-L24`) and query strings preserved verbatim.
- Conversion is mechanical: relative path computed from the doc file's
directory to the target via `os.path.relpath`. Any path starting at the
same directory or below gets a `./` prefix; otherwise `../` chains.
## Rebased on main
The branch was rebased onto `main` after the DOCS-350 hotfix
([#26339](https://github.com/coder/coder/pull/26339)) merged. The hotfix
repointed 3 `docs-backend-contrib-guide` refs in `backend.md` to `main`,
which then needed the same `main` -> relative conversion this PR is
doing for the other 121 links. The conflict was resolved by reapplying
the mechanical conversion to `backend.md` after taking the hotfix's
content. Net result: those 3 links land here as relative, same as
everything else. New HEAD `3f501cb622`.
## Inline fix folded in: dead `nix` link
- `docs/about/contributing/CONTRIBUTING.md:7` -> `../../../nix`
The original absolute URL `https://github.com/coder/coder/tree/main/nix`
already returned 404 today. Repointed to `flake.nix` (modern Nix
entrypoint, what the prose "Nix environment" semantically refers to).
Closes [DOCS-357](https://linear.app/codercom/issue/DOCS-357) here since
the `check-docs` Linkspector job surfaced it during rebase; cheaper to
fix inline than in a separate single-line PR.
## Out of scope (filed separately)
- [DOCS-350](https://linear.app/codercom/issue/DOCS-350): 3 dead
`docs-backend-contrib-guide` branch refs in `backend.md`
([#26339](https://github.com/coder/coder/pull/26339), merged).
- [DOCS-352](https://linear.app/codercom/issue/DOCS-352): 10 SHA-pinned
`(blob|tree)/<sha>` links pending intent review.
- [DOCS-355](https://linear.app/codercom/issue/DOCS-355): code-server
analog (4 absolute `(blob|tree)/main` links in `coder/code-server`).
- [DOCS-356](https://linear.app/codercom/issue/DOCS-356): 2 upstream
content bugs in `coder/code-server/docs/CONTRIBUTING.md` (independent of
this PR).
## Not triggering `/coder-agents-review`
Docs-only edit; per `AGENTS.md` the bot review is reserved for
product/CI changes.
## Pre-mortem
| Concern | Mitigation |
|---|---|
| Merging before DOCS-349 deploys regresses ~120 currently-working links
into 404s on coder.com | Clear DO-NOT-MERGE banner; tracked as blocker
in Linear. |
| Relative path computed incorrectly (off-by-one `..`) | Verified all
114 newly-relative non-md/non-image paths resolve to existing files in
the repo (only exception is the pre-existing dead `nix` link above). |
| Line anchors stripped during conversion | Preserved by the
substitution regex; verified `#L<n>-L<m>` cases in `airgap.md` and
`speed-up-templates.md`. |
| Future code reorgs change file locations | Relative links will start
pointing to nothing. Same failure mode as absolute links pointing to
renamed files; can be caught with a future link-checker job. |
## Validation
```
$ grep -rE 'github\.com/coder/coder/(blob|tree)/main' docs --include="*.md" | wc -l
0
$ git diff --stat origin/main | tail -1
39 files changed, 118 insertions(+), 118 deletions(-)
```
114 newly-relative paths verified to resolve to existing repo files
(Python `os.path.exists` check on each computed target).
<details>
<summary>Decision log + planning context</summary>
**Why relative over `(blob|tree)/{{currentDocsVersion}}/...`
templating**: relative paths require zero markdown-system support and
zero upstream churn beyond this one PR. Templating would require a
preprocessor on `coder.com` side AND a convention upstream authors have
to remember; relative paths just work in a plain editor and
`github.com`'s own renderer too.
**Why `./` prefix on same-directory targets**: makes the conversion
grep-able later (`grep -E '\((\.\./|\./)'`).
**Why preserve `#L<n>-L<m>` anchors verbatim**: the anchor is meaningful
to the linked file's content, not to the URL form; keeping it as-is
preserves authorial intent. If the file later changes such that the line
range drifts, that's a different problem the SHA-pin audit
([DOCS-352](https://linear.app/codercom/issue/DOCS-352)) will surface.
</details>
---
*Generated by Coder Agents on @nickvigilante's behalf.*
## Drive-by external link fix folded in
`docs/about/contributing/CONTRIBUTING.md:296` cited
`https://reflectoring.io/meaningful-commit-messages/` which is returning
HTTP 503 (the host appears to be down site-wide right now). `check-docs`
Linkspector flagged it after the rebase. Replaced with
`https://cbea.ms/git-commit/` (Chris Beams' canonical "If applied, this
commit will..." article, confirmed 200), which is the original source of
the rule the prose recites anyway.
Closes https://github.com/coder/coder/issues/21360
A few considerations/notes:
- I've kept the number of conns to 10 in all other places, except coderd
- which uses the config value
- I opted to also make idle conns configurable; the greater the delta
between max open and max idle, the more connection churn
- Postgres maintains a [_process_ per
connection](https://www.postgresql.org/docs/current/connect-estab.html),
contrary to what the comment said previously
- Operators should be able to tune this, since process churn can
negatively affect OS scheduling
- I've set the value to `"auto"` by default so it's not another knob one
_has to_ twiddle, and sets max idle = max conns / 3
---------
Signed-off-by: Danny Kopping <danny@coder.com>
add a new section specifically about how to disable path-based apps to
the security best practices doc
## todo
- [x] copy review
- [x] cross-linking
---------
Co-authored-by: EdwardAngert <17991901+EdwardAngert@users.noreply.github.com>
Co-authored-by: Dean Sheather <dean@deansheather.com>
I noticed a few inaccuracies in this doc, or aspects which could've been
explained a little more. In other cases, I've added some specificity in
service of clarity.
---------
Signed-off-by: Danny Kopping <danny@coder.com>
Co-authored-by: EdwardAngert <17991901+EdwardAngert@users.noreply.github.com>
Nick Vigilante