| Forrestbot web interface |
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| jefft@apache.org |
| $Revision: 1.1 $ $Date: 2003/10/21 08:38:31 $ |
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| This webapp implements a website staging application for sites built with |
| Apache Forrest. The webapp hosts HTML for a number of managed websites. The |
| user can regenerate these sites at will. Once the user is satisfied with the |
| site, they may 'publish' the site, making it live. |
| |
| This webapp has the loosest of couplings with the backend engine which is |
| expected to do the real update/publish work: instructions are simply written to |
| the WEB-INF/commands file. It is expected that an external app will be polling |
| this file for input. See ../../scripts/README.txt for more info. |
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| Installation |
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| Simply point Tomcat (or another servlet container) at this directory. Eg in |
| server.xml: |
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| <Context path="/forrestbot" docBase="/home/jeff/apache/xml/xml-forrest/src/resources/forrestbot/webapp" debug="0" reloadable="true"/> |
| |
| Note: this webapp will not work with a standard Apache/Tomcat mod_jk |
| connection. If you look at web.xml you will see why: a number of virtual paths |
| (/site/*, /refresh/*, /logs/refresh) are used, and mod_jk does not forwards |
| requests for these paths on to Tomcat. These need to be added by hand to |
| httpd.conf. Alternatively, use a more intelligent connector like mod_webapp. |
