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**Category:** Ansible Developer\
**Created:** [February 17, 2017, 7:09am UTC](https://forum.ansible.com/t/generating-html-module-docs-locally/23756 "2017-02-17T07:09:45Z")\
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**Author:**  [@Lorin\_Hochstein2](https://forum.ansible.com/u/Lorin_Hochstein2)\
**Post date:** [February 17, 2017, 7:09am UTC](https://forum.ansible.com/t/generating-html-module-docs-locally/23756/1 "2017-02-17T07:09:45Z")
I wanted to take a stab at [https://github.com/ansible/ansible/issues/21556](https://github.com/ansible/ansible/issues/21556). I tried doing “make webdocs” against devel (7bf56cee), and got the following error:
rendering: include\_role
Traceback (most recent call last):
File “…/…/hacking/module\_formatter.py”, line 487, in
main()
File “…/…/hacking/module\_formatter.py”, line 474, in main
result = process\_module(modname, options, env, template, outputname, module\_map, aliases)
File “…/…/hacking/module\_formatter.py”, line 327, in process\_module
raise AnsibleError(“Failed to render doc for %s: %s” % (fname, str(e)))
ansible.errors.AnsibleError: Failed to render doc for …/…/lib/ansible/modules/core/utilities/logic/include\_role.py: Could not process ({u"As with C(include) this task can be static or dynamic, If static it implies that it won’t need templating nor loops nor conditionals and will show included tasks in the --list options. Ansible will try to autodetect what is needed, but you can set `static": u'yes|no` at task level to control this.'}) : expected string or buffer
make[1]: \*\*\* [modules] Error 1
make: \*\*\* [webdocs] Error 2
Anybody have any insight as to why this might fail locally? I’m running on macOS.
Lorin
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**Author:**  [@alikins](https://forum.ansible.com/u/alikins)\
**Post date:** [February 17, 2017, 2:58pm UTC](https://forum.ansible.com/t/generating-html-module-docs-locally/23756/2 "2017-02-17T14:58:12Z")
If you are working against the devel branch, then I suspect you have
stale lib/ansible/module/core and lib/ansible/module/extra dirs.
Failed to render doc for
../../lib/ansible/modules/core/utilities/logic/include\_role.py
^ there is no /core/ path in devel any more
So likely trying to render docs for an older module and failing.
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**Author:**  [@Lorin\_Hochstein2](https://forum.ansible.com/u/Lorin_Hochstein2)\
**Post date:** [February 18, 2017, 4:58am UTC](https://forum.ansible.com/t/generating-html-module-docs-locally/23756/3 "2017-02-18T04:58:03Z")
Yup, that was it. I had some stale dirs that were being masked by .gitignore. It’s working now. Thanks for the help.
Lorin