SVN Commit by dpage: r4943 - trunk/www - Mailing list pgadmin-hackers

Author: dpage
Date: 2006-01-20 11:29:15 +0000 (Fri, 20 Jan 2006)
New Revision: 4943

Added:
   trunk/www/README.txt
Log:
Add a readme file explaining how to setup the site and roughly how it works


Added: trunk/www/README.txt
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--- trunk/www/README.txt    2006-01-20 10:24:42 UTC (rev 4942)
+++ trunk/www/README.txt    2006-01-20 11:29:15 UTC (rev 4943)
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+www.pgadmin.org
+===============
+
+This is the code for the pgAdmin website, www.pgadmin.org. In order to setup
+an instance of the site, you will need a dedicated virtual host with the
+site installed in the docroot. The following virtual host configuration is
+taken from ferengi.postgresql.org which is (at the time of writing) serving
+the primary site:
+
+<VirtualHost *>
+    ServerName www.pgadmin.org
+    DocumentRoot /usr/local/apache/www.pgadmin.org
+    ServerAlias pgadmin.postgresql.org
+    ServerAlias www2.pgadmin.org
+    ServerAlias pgadmin.org
+    AddType application/x-httpd-php .php
+    DirectoryIndex index.html index.php
+    ErrorLog logs/www.pgadmin.org.error_log
+    CustomLog /dev/null common
+    RewriteLog logs/www.pgadmin.org.rewrite_log
+    RewriteLogLevel 9
+
+    <Directory "/usr/local/apache/www.pgadmin.org">
+        Options Indexes FollowSymLinks
+        AllowOverride All
+        <IfModule mod_php4.c>
+            php_admin_value safe_mode Off
+        </IfModule>
+    </Directory>
+</VirtualHost>
+
+Note that PHP's safe mode is currently turned off to allow the framework to
+tweak $LANG. This needs some work!
+
+Static content
+--------------
+
+Each static page in the site is a very simple PHP script including the page
+generator scripti (include/page.php), setting up a couple of variables with
+the content and page title and then calling the www_page() function which
+renders the page. Strings in each page are wrapped in _( ) markers to allow
+them be translated.
+
+Section menus
+-------------
+
+A section menu is built from the 'menu.php' script present in the same
+directory as the source content. Section menus are not present in the list
+archives or docs sections of the site. The menu script contains a single
+function (www_menu()) which outputs a set of div's forming the section menu.
+Each line includes a call to www_current_menu_page($1) which will include
+the appropriate CSS class/id, depending on whether or not $1 is the current
+page.
+
+Additional content
+------------------
+
+There are also three additional directories that are not included with the
+site source code that must be setup under the document root. These hold
+copies of the pgAdmin source tree(s) for integration of the documentation,
+translation status, changelog and bug lists etc, the snapshot builds and
+the mailing list archives.
+
+/svnrepo
+--------
+
+/svnrepo
+  /pgadmin3
+  /pgadmin3-1.4
+...
+...
+
+The svnrepo directory holds the source trees for trunk and any stable branches
+whose docs are integrated into the site (currently only 1.4). These tree are
+svn update'ed hourly. Files under here are integrated into the website in a
+variety of ways - basic text/html files may be included as raw content in
+other PHP pages and the translation statuses are read using the code in
+include/po_status.php. The documentation is accessed by it's 'real' filename,
+relocated to /docs/xxx/, where xxx is 'dev' or the branch version number. A
+rewrite rule in /.htaccess intercepts these URLs, extracts the document set
+and page requested, and passes them to include/doc.php which constructs the
+page content and passes it to the standard page rendered.
+
+
+/snapshots
+----------
+
+The snapshots directory is rsync'ed from developer.pgadmin.org. It simply
+contains the directory tree of snapshot source and binary builds of pgAdmin.
+The snapshot rsync source is not publically accessible.
+
+/archives
+---------
+
+/archives
+  /pgadmin-hackers
+  /pgadmin-support
+
+The /archives directory holds the mailing list archives for the pgAdmin lists
+rsync'ed from svr5.postgresql.org. This rsync source is not publically
+accessible. The mailing list pages are built and rendered using
+include/archives.php and include/page.php in much the same way as the doc
+pages are.
+
+Synchronisation
+---------------
+
+In order to keep the live website up to date, a number of cron jobs are
+scheduled.
+
+# Update the SVN repositories:
+
+02 * * * * cd /usr/local/apache/www.pgadmin.org/svnrepo/pgadmin3; /usr/bin/svn update
+12 * * * * cd /usr/local/apache/www.pgadmin.org/svnrepo/pgadmin3-1.4; /usr/bin/svn update
+
+# Update the website content/source code:
+
+22 * * * * cd /usr/local/apache/www.pgadmin.org; /usr/bin/svn update
+
+# Run the translation cache update script:
+
+32 * * * * /usr/bin/wget -q -O /tmp/update.txt http://www.pgadmin.org/cache/update.php
+
+# Update the snapshots tree:
+
+42 * * * * /usr/bin/rsync -avz --delete developer.pgadmin.org::pgadmin-snapshots
/usr/local/apache/www.pgadmin.org/snapshots/
+
+# Update the archives:
+
+52 * * * * /usr/bin/rsync -avz --delete svr5.postgresql.org::pgsql-archives/pgadmin*
/usr/local/apache/www.pgadmin.org/archives/
+
+