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<howto>
 <header>
  <title>How to deploy your site with the forrestbot via a cron job</title>
  <abstract>
  This How-To describes the deployment of a forrest documentation with the help of the forrestbot. 
  This deployment task will then be automated via a cron tab.
  </abstract>
  <last-modified-content-date date="2004-07-19"/>
 </header>

  <audience title="Intended Audience">
    <p>
      Users who need to deploy a forrest documentation on a regular basis and want to automate this task.
    </p>
  </audience>
  
  <purpose title="Purpose">
    <p>
		If you are administrate a forrest documentation and have to deploy it on a regular basis 
		the process is sometimes quite time consuming. One feature of forrest is the forrestbot.
		This bot can build the documentation and later on deploy it to a server of your choice. 
		You will learn how to use this forrestbot and how to mae programmed deployments.
    </p>
  </purpose>

  <prerequisites title="Prerequisites">
    <ul>
      <li>Understand how the forrestbot works in following the 
      <link href="site:forrestbot">Forrestbot</link> document.</li>
    </ul>
  </prerequisites>

  <steps title="Steps">
  <section id="sitemap">
    <title>Create your project's main sitemap.xmap</title>
    <p>
    	In the <link href="site:forrestbot">Forrestbot</link> document you have seen an example
    	of a buildfile for a cvs source. We will now use a local source.
    </p>
    <source>
    <![CDATA[<project name="mysampleproject" default="main" >
	<property name="notify.email.host" value="smtp.myhost.com"/>
	<property name="notify.email.to" value="me@domain.com"/>
	<property name="notify.administrator" value="Your Name &lt;me@domain.com>"/>
	<property name="getsrc.local.root-dir" value="/path/to/project/dir"/>
	<property name="deploy.scp.dest" value="user@deploy-host:/path/to/project/www-docs"/>

	<!-- ant targets -->
	<target name="notify" depends="notify.local, notify.email"/>
	<target name="deploy" depends="deploy.scp"/>
	<target name="getsrc" depends="getsrc.local"/>

	<!-- assumes FORREST_HOME has been set as an environment variable -->
	<property environment="env"/>
	<import file="${env.FORREST_HOME}/../forrestbot/core/forrestbot.xml"/>
</project> ]]>
	</source>
  </section>

  
  </steps>

  <feedback title="Feedback and further development of this How-To">
    <p>
      Please provide feedback about this document via the
      <link href="site:mail-lists">mailing lists</link>.
    </p>
  </feedback>
</howto>
