docs_dir and site_dir errors during build

[jorisshh]

Details

• Read the Docs project URL: https://readthedocs.org/projects/rucksack-docs
• Build URL: http://rucksack-docs.readthedocs.io/en/latest
• Read the Docs username: devdogio

Expected Result

Build fails due to errors.

My mkdocs.yml file from git repo:

site_name: Rucksack Docs
site_author: Devdog
site_url: https://devdog.io

markdown_extensions:
 - admonition

cat mkdocs.yml during build:

docs_dir: /home/docs/checkouts/readthedocs.org/user_builds/rucksack-docs/checkouts/latest
extra_css: ['https://media.readthedocs.org/css/badge_only.css', 'https://media.readthedocs.org/css/readthedocs-doc-embed.css']
extra_javascript: [readthedocs-data.js, 'https://media.readthedocs.org/static/core/js/readthedocs-doc-embed.js',
  'https://media.readthedocs.org/javascript/readthedocs-analytics.js']
google_analytics: null
markdown_extensions: [admonition]
site_author: Devdog
site_name: Rucksack Docs
site_url: https://devdog.io
theme_dir: /home/docs/checkouts/readthedocs.org/readthedocs/templates/mkdocs/readthedocs

Errors:

WARNING -  Config value: 'theme_dir'. Warning: The configuration option {0} has been deprecated and will be removed in a future release of MkDocs. 
ERROR   -  Config value: 'docs_dir'. Error: The 'docs_dir' should not be the parent directory of the config file. Use a child directory instead so that the config file is a sibling of the config file. 
ERROR   -  Config value: 'site_dir'. Error: The 'site_dir' should not be within the 'docs_dir' as this leads to the build directory being copied into itself and duplicate nested files in the 'site_dir'.(site_dir: '/home/docs/checkouts/readthedocs.org/user_builds/rucksack-docs/checkouts/latest/_build/html', docs_dir: '/home/docs/checkouts/readthedocs.org/user_builds/rucksack-docs/checkouts/latest') 

Aborted with 2 Configuration Errors!

Am I missing something here? My repos are unchanged and worked perfectly before.

[stsewd]

We upgrade the version of mkdocs, you can pin in your requirements.txt file a compatible version, or fix your project structure. Please see https://www.mkdocs.org/about/release-notes/#stricter-directory-validation

[jorisshh]

Thanks. Moved everything to docs/ folder and all is working well 👍