Flavio Cordova wrote: > I have created a small project using forrest and it runs fine using both > 'forrest run' and 'forrest site'. > Now I'm trying to build the site using forrestbot but it's not working...
Great to hear that other people are using forrestbot. It is such a fantastic deployment tool. We are having great success with it at the Forrest project, and still only using a fraction of its ability. Going by my experience, the main thing was to set up the directory structure well. Also important was to invoke forrestbot from the correct directory. We have a separate configuration file for each site that we want forrestbot to build. Ours is automated via cron, so each hour it calls a little shell script which sets the java and FORREST_HOME environment variables, changes to the correct workspace and then calls it with 'forrest -f this-site-config.xml notify' to build it and tell us about the results. See our configuration files for our forrestbot at http://svn.apache.org/repos/asf/forrest/zone/ Do an 'svn checkout' and use it to help create your own setup. http://forrest.apache.org/zone.html See also some notes in your Forrest distribution at etc/publishing_our_site.txt ... this is how forrest committers use it to build and deploy our website from our local workstations. > Here the build.xml I have created: > <project name="build.prounit" default="main"> > <description>ProUnit Documentation build script</description> > <!-- Import properties --> > <property file="build.properties" /> > <property name="getsrc.local.root-dir" location="c:/work/prounit-docs"/> > <property name="build.work-dir" value="tmp/work"/> > <property name="build.log-dir" value="tmp/logs"/> > <property name="deploy.local.dir" value="deploy-docs"/> > > <target name="getsrc" depends="getsrc.clean-workdir,getsrc.local"/> > > <target name="deploy" depends="deploy.local"> > <echo level="info" message="DONE ???" /> > </target> > > <property environment="env"/> > <import file="${env.FORREST_HOME}/tools/forrestbot/core/forrestbot.xml"/> > <property name="forrest.home" value="${env.FORREST_HOME}"/> > </project> > > When it runs, it reports a broken link: > [java] X [0] linkmap.html BROKEN: C:\apache- > forrest-0.7\main\webapp\tmp\work\tmp\build-info.xml (The system cannot find > the path specified) > I have already searched all FAQs and documentation but I admit I got a > little lost. That sounds like perhaps forrestbot is being invoked from the wrong directory. I notice some things in your config file that might cause trouble. Actually i am pointing out the things that are different to ours build.work-dir etc. being relative paths (should be okay). We don't import any build.properties file. We don't set the "forrest.home" property. Anyway, check out the abovementioned links and get back to us. Also, note that some changes were made to the 0.7 release branch. which will be needed to get email notification happening properly, otherwise you should be fine with the actual 0.7 release. http://svn.apache.org/viewcvs.cgi/forrest/branches/forrest_07_branch/tools/forrestbot/core/ -David
