Re: indy-compiled.tar.gz avaliable

[Stefan Rieken <StefanRieken@SoftHome.net>]

David Webster wrote:
> 
> Hi,
> 
> I've just finished hacking a beta copy of the script to create compiled
> version of the indy site.
> 
> The tarball can be found at:
> http://independence.seul.org/~cog/indy-compiled.tar.gz
> 
> and the script (if you want to have a look at it) can be found at:
> http://independence.seul.org/~cog/compile-indy-web
> 
> The executable is in /home/cog/bin/compile-indy-web if someone wants to
> add it to cran's cron. I would but I don't know how, and since it's nearly
> 3am I'm not interested in learning before I get some sleep.
> 
> Would there be any problems with making it executable in my public_html?
> This would enable anyone to run the command and take an upto date tarball
> of the site.
> 
> I can think of the obvious potential for DoS attacks, but apart from that.
> 
> FYI: The script works by copying the files to a tmp directory, finding
> all .shtml files, getting apache and lynx to process them, and saves them
> as .html files. And then tarballs the directories.
> 
> There are two directories in the tarball:
> public_html/
>         this is the directory with the compiled web site in
> SSI/
>         This is where the *.shtml files get moved to. I've included them
> because I thought it might be useful to some developers to have access to
> them without having to dl the other tarball.
> 
> Would it be worth creating *.zip files for people on other platforms, or
> is *.tar.gz compatiable with WinZip?
> 

Yes 'tis. So no problem.

Greets,

Stefan