diff --git a/reference.page.jsx b/reference.page.jsx
index c023e0b56..100db1357 100644
--- a/reference.page.jsx
+++ b/reference.page.jsx
@@ -17,19 +17,22 @@ export default function* () {
         "",
       );
 
+      const trailingLength = file.path.endsWith("index.html")
+        ? -"index.html".length
+        : -".html".length;
+
+      let path = file.path.slice("reference_gen/gen".length, trailingLength);
+
+      // replace slashes for windows
+      path = path.replace(/\\/g, "/");
+
       yield {
-        url: "/api" +
-          file.path.slice(
-            "reference_gen/gen".length,
-            file.path.endsWith("index.html")
-              ? -"index.html".length
-              : -".html".length,
-          ),
+        url: "/api" + path,
         title: file.name.slice(0, -".html".length),
         content,
       };
     }
-  } catch {
-    console.warn("⚠️ Reference docs were not generated.");
+  } catch (ex) {
+    console.warn("⚠️ Reference docs were not generated." + ex);
   }
 }
diff --git a/reference_gen/deno.json b/reference_gen/deno.json
index a9ffb7246..48f3ef221 100644
--- a/reference_gen/deno.json
+++ b/reference_gen/deno.json
@@ -16,7 +16,6 @@
     "types:deno": "deno run --allow-read --allow-write --allow-run --allow-env --allow-sys deno-docs.ts",
     "types:node": "deno run --allow-read --allow-write=. --allow-env --allow-sys node-docs.ts",
     "types": "deno task types:deno && deno task types:node",
-
     "doc:deno": "mkdir -p gen/deno && DENO_INTERNAL_HTML_DOCS=deno deno doc --html --name=Deno --category-docs=deno-categories.json --output=gen/deno --strip-trailing-html types/deno.d.ts",
     "doc:web": "mkdir -p gen/web && DENO_INTERNAL_HTML_DOCS=deno deno doc --html --name=Web --category-docs=web-categories.json --output=gen/web --strip-trailing-html types/web.d.ts",
     "doc:node": "mkdir -p gen/node && DENO_INTERNAL_HTML_DOCS=node deno doc --html --name=Node --output=gen/node --symbol-redirect-map=node-symbol-map.json --default-symbol-map=node-default-map.json --strip-trailing-html types/node/[!_]*",