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    You can adapt this file completely to your liking, but it should at least
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-Welcome to JupyterHub's documentation!
-======================================
+JupyterHub
+==========
+
+.. note:: This is the official documentation for JupyterHub. This project is
+          under active development.
+
+JupyterHub is a multi-user server that manages and proxies multiple instances
+of the single-user Jupyter notebook server.
+
+Three actors:
+
+* multi-user Hub (tornado process)
+* configurable http proxy (node-http-proxy)
+* multiple single-user IPython notebook servers (Python/IPython/tornado)
+
+Basic principles:
+
+* Hub spawns proxy
+* Proxy forwards ~all requests to hub by default
+* Hub handles login, and spawns single-user servers on demand
+* Hub configures proxy to forward url prefixes to single-user servers
+
 
 Contents:
 
 .. toctree::
-   :maxdepth: 2
+   :maxdepth: 1
+   :caption: User Documentation
 
+   getting-started
+   how-it-works
+
+.. toctree::
+   :maxdepth: 2
+   :caption: Configuration
+
+   authenticators
+   spawners
+
+.. toctree::
+   :maxdepth: 1
+   :caption: Developer Documentation
+
+
+
+.. toctree::
+   :maxdepth: 1
+   :caption: Community documentation
+
+
+
+.. toctree::
+   :maxdepth: 2
+   :caption: About JupyterHub
+
+   changelog
+
+.. toctree::
+   :maxdepth: 1
+   :caption: Questions? Suggestions?
+
+   Jupyter mailing list <https://groups.google.com/forum/#!forum/jupyter>
+   Jupyter website <https://jupyter.org>
+   Stack Overflow - Jupyter <https://stackoverflow.com/questions/tagged/jupyter>
+   Stack Overflow - Jupyter-notebook <https://stackoverflow.com/questions/tagged/jupyter-notebook>
 
 
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