diff --git a/.ci/build-docker.sh b/.ci/build-docker.sh
index 16f877e343b..9df4c932c68 100755
--- a/.ci/build-docker.sh
+++ b/.ci/build-docker.sh
@@ -41,7 +41,9 @@ docker_build --target make-all --tag make-all:$DOCKER_TAG .
 
 # Copy docs out of the docker image to save them into browseable GitLab artifacts
 container=$(docker create make-all:$DOCKER_TAG)
-docker cp $container:/home/sage/sage/local/share/doc/sage/html html
+docker cp $container:/home/sage/sage/local/share/doc/sage/html html_
+# GitLab's browser does not like symlinks, so we flatten them
+rsync html_/ html/ -a --copy-links
 
 # Build the release image without build artifacts.
 docker_build --target sagemath --tag "$DOCKER_IMAGE_CLI" .
diff --git a/.gitlab-ci.yml b/.gitlab-ci.yml
index 770fe3421e4..accca9971e5 100644
--- a/.gitlab-ci.yml
+++ b/.gitlab-ci.yml
@@ -91,7 +91,7 @@ build-from-latest:
     - html
     expire_in: 1 month
   script:
-    - apk --update add coreutils
+    - apk --update add coreutils rsync
     # The output of the build can get larger than gitlab.com's limit; only
     # print the first 1MB (and the last 80 lines.) GitLab's limit is 4MB,
     # however, the list of all branches and tags that shows up in the initial