Website

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Once you have developer-level access to the project, you can also help with maintenance of the Inkscape website.

Contents 1 Checkout of the Website Module 2 Testing your website changes locally 2.1 Method 1 2.2 Method 2 3 Making Your Changes Live 4 Adding News to the Site

Checkout of the Website Module

Please see the page on working with SVN on this project.

Testing your website changes locally

Method 1

Once you have checked out (see previous heading) the website module, then make a symbolic link to your web root directory. To do this for apache on redhat9 the best way is to navigate to

/var/www/html

and then type:

ln -s /usr/src/create_web

(NOTE: that the path you pass should be relative/absolute to the inkscape_web module you just checked out)

Thus, once you have done this, then you will be able to view the Inkscape website at

http://localhost/create_web/

on your computer via a web browser.

Hopefully, you have apache configured properly and it is running.

Method 2

There are also many other ways to work on this site, such as creating a virtual directory and setting something like create.localhost in your /etc/hosts file. Then, add this directive to your apache config setup:

<VirtualHost *:80>
ServerName create.localhost
ServerAlias *.create.localhost
# workaround for older browsers is to make a sym link to real path
ServerPath /create_web
DocumentRoot /PATH/TO/CREATE_WEB/ON/YOUR/SYSTEM
</VirtualHost>

Restart your web server and then type: create.localhost into your web browser.

Making Your Changes Live

From the primary create_web package, run:

./publish_web.sh

Adding News to the Site

Send your blog feed to the mailing list and we will get it added to the blogroll for our planetplanet.org installation.