From owner-freebsd-doc Thu Jun 29 3:56:27 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-doc@freebsd.org Received: from florence.pavilion.net (florence.pavilion.net [212.74.0.25]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id E771237BB8E; Thu, 29 Jun 2000 03:56:14 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from joe@pavilion.net) Received: from genius.systems.pavilion.net (postfix@genius.systems.pavilion.net [212.74.1.100]) by florence.pavilion.net (8.9.3/8.8.8) with ESMTP id LAA55230; Thu, 29 Jun 2000 11:50:24 +0100 (BST) (envelope-from joe@pavilion.net) Received: by genius.systems.pavilion.net (Postfix, from userid 100) id A1D1C12341; Thu, 29 Jun 2000 11:51:49 +0100 (BST) Date: Thu, 29 Jun 2000 11:51:49 +0100 From: Josef Karthauser To: Nik Clayton Cc: Jun Kuriyama , doc@freebsd.org, committers@freebsd.org Subject: Re: The website Message-ID: <20000629115149.E66974@pavilion.net> References: <20000625200029.I470@kilt.nothing-going-on.org> <7mu2eg4sz7.wl@waterblue.imgsrc.co.jp> <20000626230824.A388@catkin.nothing-going-on.org> <20000628002714.O35437@pavilion.net> <20000628172341.A51610@catkin.nothing-going-on.org> <20000628175547.Z33390@pavilion.net> <20000628224406.A82810@catkin.nothing-going-on.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.2i In-Reply-To: <20000628224406.A82810@catkin.nothing-going-on.org>; from nik@freebsd.org on Wed, Jun 28, 2000 at 10:44:07PM +0100 X-NCC-RegID: uk.pavilion Organisation: Pavilion Internet plc, Lees House, 21-23 Dyke Road, Brighton, England Phone: +44-845-333-5000 Fax: +44-845-333-5001 Mobile: +44-403-596893 Sender: owner-freebsd-doc@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org On Wed, Jun 28, 2000 at 10:44:07PM +0100, Nik Clayton wrote: > On Wed, Jun 28, 2000 at 05:55:47PM +0100, Josef Karthauser wrote: > > On Wed, Jun 28, 2000 at 05:23:41PM +0100, Nik Clayton wrote: > > > On Wed, Jun 28, 2000 at 12:27:14AM +0100, Josef Karthauser wrote: > > > > A trick that we use is to make use of server side includes to allow > > > > a crude configuration file method. > > > > > > Problem with that is that you then need to be running a webserver before > > > you can effectively test the site -- also, you probably need to be running > > > the same webserver as everyone else (unless SSI is standardised between > > > different servers). > > > > Who's not running Apache? :) > > Me (and anyone else who wants to develop stuff for the website without > having the overhead of having to run a webserver before you can usefully > view the stuff you've created and/or changed). Ah! Developing :). In that case I vote for a post processing "branding" procedure so that site specific tweaks can be made before mirroring. This could be done in the build process, but that then makes it more difficult to mirror as each mirror site also needs the full build enviromnent. Joe To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-doc" in the body of the message