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diff --git a/en_US.ISO8859-1/htdocs/internal/mirror.xml b/en_US.ISO8859-1/htdocs/internal/mirror.xml new file mode 100644 index 0000000000..276e3c3dc4 --- /dev/null +++ b/en_US.ISO8859-1/htdocs/internal/mirror.xml @@ -0,0 +1,70 @@ +<?xml version="1.0" encoding="iso-8859-1"?> +<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//FreeBSD//DTD XHTML 1.0 Transitional-Based Extension//EN" +"http://www.FreeBSD.org/XML/doc/share/sgml/xhtml10-freebsd.dtd" [ +<!ENTITY title "Mirroring the FreeBSD Web Pages"> +]> + +<html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml"> +<head> + <title>&title;</title> + + <cvs:keyword xmlns:cvs="http://www.FreeBSD.org/XML/CVS">$FreeBSD$</cvs:keyword> + </head> + + <body class="navinclude.docs"> + +<p>You can (and are encouraged to) mirror the FreeBSD web pages +<tt>www.FreeBSD.org</tt>. + +To do this, you need to obtain and install +a program called <em>cvsup</em> on your web server. + +<a href="&url.doc.base;/books/handbook/cvsup.html#CVSUP-INSTALL">CVSup</a> is a software package for +distributing and updating collections of files across a network.</p> + +<h2>Installing CVSup</h2> + +<p>You can build and install it from source by the following commands:</p> + +<pre> + # cd /usr/ports/net/cvsup-without-gui + # make all install clean +</pre> + +<p>However, installing precompiled package from the FreeBSD +<a href="&url.doc.base;/books/handbook/packages-using.html">packages +collection</a> may be much easier. +Refer to the chapter mentioned for the details.</p> + +<h2>Running CVSup</h2> + +<p>If you keep your mirrored FreeBSD web pages in the directory +<tt>/usr/FreeBSD-mirror</tt> and are owned by the user `fred', then +run the following command as user `fred':</p> + +<pre> + $ cvsup supfile-www +</pre> + +The file <tt>supfile-www</tt> contain: +<pre> + *default host="cvsup".FreeBSD.org + *default prefix=/usr/FreeBSD-mirror + *default base=/usr/local/etc/cvsup + www release="current" delete use-rel-suffix compress +</pre> + +<p>This will mirror the FreeBSD web pages into +<tt>/usr/FreeBSD-mirror</tt>. You can install this into fred's +crontab, so that it runs once a day. The pages on www.FreeBSD.org are +updated daily at about 4:30am California time.</p> + +<h2>More Information on CVSup</h2> + +See the <a href="&url.doc.base;/books/handbook/synching.html#CVSUP">CVSup introduction</a> in the +handbook. + +<p><a href="internal.html">FreeBSD Internal Home</a></p> + +</body> +</html> |