Date: Wed, 25 Aug 2004 14:25:59 +0100 From: Matthew Seaman <m.seaman@infracaninophile.co.uk> To: wesw@cfl.rr.com Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: FreeBSD.org website CMS Message-ID: <20040825132559.GA38813@happy-idiot-talk.infracaninophile.co.uk> In-Reply-To: <2de5e92de4ae.2de4ae2de5e9@tampabay.rr.com> References: <2de5e92de4ae.2de4ae2de5e9@tampabay.rr.com>
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On Wed, Aug 25, 2004 at 09:03:56AM -0400, wesw@cfl.rr.com wrote:
> As a fan of FreeBSD, I suppose it's also no surprise that I like the FreeBSD.org website layout.
>
> Hoping to implement and learn a website content management system (CMS) myself, I was wondering what software(s) FreeBSD.org uses to manage their vast website?
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> I apologize if this information is posted on the site, but after looking for it for some time I still came up empty-handed.
The site is built out of cvs at regular intervals -- different parts
of the site get rebuilt with different frequencies. Take a look at
the www section of the FreeBSD cvs repository for details of how the
main parts are managed:
http://www.freebsd.org/cgi/cvsweb.cgi/www/
http://www.freebsd.org/cgi/cvsweb.cgi/www/share/mk/web.site.mk
Mostly it's just a case of checking out the www collection from cvs,
and then running 'make' at the top level. A lot of the html is
generated by doing XSLT transforms of XML input, or by processing SGML
input -- the XML stuff tends to be more recent, and seems to be slowly
taking over.
Large chunks of the website come out of the documentation project: see
the FreeBSD Documentation Project Primer for details of how they
generate the required output:
http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/fdp-primer/index.html
The FDP stuff is produced by processing SGML sources: it can be
turned into web pages, as here; or into PDF etc. for printing out in
book format.
Finally, take a look at the freebsd-www@... mailing list, where the
project's webmasters tend to hang out:
http://lists.freebsd.org/pipermail/freebsd-www/2004-August/
There's quite a lot of cross-over between that list, and
freebsd-doc@... as you might expect.
Cheers,
Matthew
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