diff --git a/docs/custom_theme/main.html b/docs/custom_theme/main.html
index 15b3c49d005..6f3aa8b1495 100644
--- a/docs/custom_theme/main.html
+++ b/docs/custom_theme/main.html
@@ -44,7 +44,7 @@
   <!-- Edit button, if URL was defined -->
   <!--The button has to point to the doc site and as it's not designed to have doc outside of code
   repos we have to replace the mkdocs generated link based on the code repos with the doc repos-->
-  {% if page.edit_url %}
+  {% if page.edit_url and config.extra.doc_site_edit_url %}
   <a href="{{ page.edit_url | replace(config.repo_url, config.extra.doc_site_edit_url) }}"
      title="{{ lang.t('edit.link.title') }}"
      class="md-icon md-content__icon">&#xE3C9;<!-- edit --></a>
diff --git a/mkdocs.yml b/mkdocs.yml
index 25f008db2d5..8c2b830661f 100644
--- a/mkdocs.yml
+++ b/mkdocs.yml
@@ -19,7 +19,7 @@ copyright: Hyperledger Besu and its documentation are licensed under Apache 2.0
 
 #extra project info and template customisation
 extra:
-  doc_site_edit_url: https://github.com/hyperledger/besu-docs/
+#  doc_site_edit_url: https://github.com/hyperledger/besu-docs/
   latest_version_warning:
     url_contains: /latest/
     text: 'You are reading Hyperledger Besu development version documentation and