VitePress docs monitoring

Draft. This outline will be expanded with verified, platform-specific detail.

How VitePress sites typically break

• Sidebar config in .vitepress/config decides reachability; unlisted pages become orphans. TODO(verify)
• Heading anchors are generated from heading text with optional custom ids. TODO(verify): {#custom-id} support
• cleanUrls toggles /page vs /page.html and needs matching server configuration (verified 2026-09-17).

What the VitePress build catches, and what it misses

• Builds fail on dead internal links by default; ignoreDeadLinks relaxes this (verified 2026-09-17).
• Misses external links, anchors from other sites, sitemap drift and orphans.

Setting up redirects on VitePress

• Host-level redirects (vercel.json, Netlify _redirects); VitePress rewrites map source directories to URLs ('source/:page': 'destination/:page') but are not HTTP redirects (verified 2026-09-17).

How PathIntact monitors a VitePress site

• Detection via the VitePress generator meta tag and VP class names (verified 2026-09-17 against vitepress.dev); static reading; Vercel redirect snippet by default.