# Getting Started

[Sphinx](https://www.sphinx-doc.org) is a documentation site generator. Essentially you write your documentation in Markdown or reStructuredText (reST) files and Sphinx will build those files into HTML, JavaScript, and CSS, and serve it to a webserver for you.

Presque Labs Sphinx is hosted on presque-gamma, and is based on [sphinx-autobuild](https://github.com/executablebooks/sphinx-autobuild), a version of Sphinx that detects changes in the base directory (in this case, `/presquedrive/server-config/autosphinx/data`), and then rebuilds the site automatically when it does detect a change.

Therefore, to modify this site, you must modify the files in `/presquedrive/server-config/autosphinx/data`. There's a myriad of ways you can do this (jupyter, RDP, shellinabox)