Date: Sat, 9 Sep 2000 04:30:08 -0500 (CDT) From: Mike Meyer <mwm@mired.org> To: Joe.Warner@smed.com Cc: questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Publishing with Apache Message-ID: <14778.800.632252.992889@guru.mired.org> In-Reply-To: <22666503@toto.iv>
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Joe.Warner@smed.com writes: > I need to find an easy way for content publishers in different departments > to be able to compose > and publish web pages to my Apache server. I've read all the documentation > that comes > with Apache, as well as relevant chapters in different reference books but > haven't found any > easy to follow instructions that tells how to set up this kind of access. Publishing isn't really the job of the server; after all, it's about getting pages to the server, not from them. However, there are modules available for this. Someone has already mentioned DAV. There's also a FrontPage module, but it's reported to have security problems. My favorite solution is to integrate the process into the source code control mechanisms. There should be a single command to update any clients copy of the web pages to whatever has been checked into the repository. Running that once a minute on the server means that whenever your authors check something in, it's on the server in a minute. This does require that said command be efficient. More complex examples include a preview server, which is where the authors changes go. The appropriate people then verify the preview, and add them to a tag that the production server tracks. To get *really* fancy, you can use the output of the update command (which should be a list of deleted, updated and added files) to drive your site-wide search engine's indexer, removing, reindexing and indexing as appropriate. If you're interested in something like this but don't have the expertise, I'm available for contract work. <mike To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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