Forrestbot for Apache Site (Gump)

["Adam R. B. Jack" <aj...@trysybase.com>]

Hi,

I've just converted the Jakarta Gump site from Anakia xdocs to Forrest
xdocs. [Thanks for the conversion XSLT/script it did most of the work.] Now
I want to see if forrestbot could regularly take this from CVS and update
the WWW site for me. Could somebody point me at how/where I configure things
in order to get this done?

Thanks in advance.

regards

Adam
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Re: Forrestbot for Apache Site (Gump)

[Dave Brondsema <da...@brondsema.net>]

On Tue, 25 Nov 2003, Adam R. B. Jack wrote:

> > > xdocs. [Thanks for the conversion XSLT/script it did most of the work.]
> Now
> > > I want to see if forrestbot could regularly take this from CVS and
> update
> > > the WWW site for me. Could somebody point me at how/where I configure
> things
> > > in order to get this done?
> >
> > The forrestbot documentation on the website,
> > http://xml.apache.org/forrest/forrestbot.html should work for the latest
> > release of Forrest.
>
> Thanks, I'd looked at that but I don't want my own. [Re-reading what I
> wrote, I guess I wasn't clear.]
>
> I hoped/assumed there was an existing/installed *Apache-wide* Forrestbot
> (maintained by the Forrest team) that I could piggyback off & not have to
> run myself. Does one exist? If so, could I be pointed at that & how to work
> with it? Thanks.
>

Ah yes, I overlooked that you were talking about an apache project.
http://forrestbot.cocoondev.org/ hosts the sites and I think Jeff Turner
should be able to get that set up for Gump.

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Re: Forrestbot for Apache Site (Gump)

["Adam R. B. Jack" <aj...@trysybase.com>]

> > xdocs. [Thanks for the conversion XSLT/script it did most of the work.]
Now
> > I want to see if forrestbot could regularly take this from CVS and
update
> > the WWW site for me. Could somebody point me at how/where I configure
things
> > in order to get this done?
>
> The forrestbot documentation on the website,
> http://xml.apache.org/forrest/forrestbot.html should work for the latest
> release of Forrest.

Thanks, I'd looked at that but I don't want my own. [Re-reading what I
wrote, I guess I wasn't clear.]

I hoped/assumed there was an existing/installed *Apache-wide* Forrestbot
(maintained by the Forrest team) that I could piggyback off & not have to
run myself. Does one exist? If so, could I be pointed at that & how to work
with it? Thanks.

regards

Adam

Re: Forrestbot for Apache Site (Gump)

[Dave Brondsema <da...@brondsema.net>]

On Tue, 25 Nov 2003, Adam R. B. Jack wrote:

> Hi,
>
> I've just converted the Jakarta Gump site from Anakia xdocs to Forrest
> xdocs. [Thanks for the conversion XSLT/script it did most of the work.] Now
> I want to see if forrestbot could regularly take this from CVS and update
> the WWW site for me. Could somebody point me at how/where I configure things
> in order to get this done?
>

The forrestbot documentation on the website,
http://xml.apache.org/forrest/forrestbot.html should work for the latest
release of Forrest.  However, the next release of Forrest (and already in
CVS) there will be a much-improved forrestbot.  There is no documentation
for it yet and the configuration file(s) are not compatable between the
two versions.  If you do want to try the CVS version, currently you would
have to:

* get forrest from CVS built, see "Using Forrest" on the website
* take a configuration file from scratchpad/forrestbot2/ as an example and
modify it setting properties like mail.to, user, password, root, host,
module, etc
* these files make heavy use of the <import> task from ant 1.6
so you may have to familiarize yourself with that to understand the
forrestbot code
* run 'forrest -f mysite.xml'

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Dave Brondsema
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http://www.brondsema.net - personal
http://www.splike.com - programming
http://csx.calvin.edu - Calvin club