Re: Placing files

[Fritz Zaucker <nospam@thanx>]

Xose Manoel Ramos <xmanoel@i.am> writes:

We develop our sites in a directory structure identical to but
separate from the published site. 

This has the advantage that you can play around without the "customer"
(visitor of your website) getting annoyed by broken pages while you
are rebuilding them.

We then use rsync to update the actual site.

With rsync you can exclude certain files from being synced, so you
have the choice of just transfering html-files, etc, or of transfering
everything, including the wml-files. 

We do the latter and are thus being nice to other WML users you can
look at the wml-files and see how we implemented them.

Cheers,
Fritz

P.S.: Be careful with rsync. It is easy to screw up and sync the wrong
      way. We have a shell script doing it, so that we don't have to
      enter the parameters manually. Here is an example:

#! /bin/csh -f
rsync  --links --verbose --delete --exclude '*~' --times --rsh=ssh -r . afg@tardis:/home/afg/public_html/ 

BTW, the source and destination can be on the same host, of course, or
on separate ones. Using rsync also speeds up updates a lot, as you
often only have to copy a few files as nothing else changed. This is
especially great if you sync over a slow link.





> I just wanted a tip...
> 
> When creating web pages using WML... What to do?
> 
>   * Mix the .html files in the same directory where the .wml files
>   are
> 
>   * Have the .wml files in one directory, and the .html in other
> 
>   * Create test .html files mixed with the .wml, and then move them
>   to it's own directory
> 
> Probably that's not a big deal, but I am just beginning with a few
> pages, probably in the future this kind of decissions will avoid
> having a mess.  
> 
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