On Mon, Nov 11, 2002 at 07:13:56PM -0500, Andrew C. Oliver wrote:
> I'd also like to get a central forrest generator set up. I had thought
> daedalus was the proper
> place to do that, but perhaps cvs.apache.org is.
>
> I can hack forrest to provide this.. But What I need is:
>
> 2. crontab. I did some calculations here
> (http://www.freeroller.net/page/acoliver/20021109#apache_forrest_free_bsd_and)
>
> and
> the process should be fairly benign and light weight.
>
> The advantage is that anyone using forrest could have their pages
> generated from ONE central running copy of forrest.
Do you mean live Forrest webapps running in Tomcat? That would need a
separate port, or mod_jk/mod_webapp hacking.. and lots of mem permanently
allocated.. I think statically generated would be better :)
> We won't
> have 60-300 ssh demons running remotely uploading pages opening up
> security holes... and its just good clean infrastructure!
How about:
- providing a standard Forrest install in /usr/local/forrest
- putting /usr/local/forrest/bin in the PATH
Then the process of creating a home page on icarus is:
mkdir ~/homesite
cd ~/homesite
cat >> forrest.properties << EOF
project.site-dir=${user.home}/public_html
EOF
forrest seed # Generates a template project
vim src/documentation/content/xdocs/*.xml # Add content
forrest # Generate HTML from XML
It takes Forrest 49 secs to render a basic site on my box. I don't think
there's any need for a cron-driven system, as most people would need to
regenerate very rarely.
One possibility of a centralized system is that we could automatically
include a 'People' tab, linking to other committers' home pages. The
source for people.xml would have to be a publicly editable file in
/var/forrest/ or somewhere.
--Jeff
>
> -Andy
>
