Re: What now?

On Fri, 2004-06-18 at 19:38, Dave Page wrote:
>
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: pgsql-www-owner(at)postgresql(dot)org
> > [mailto:pgsql-www-owner(at)postgresql(dot)org] On Behalf Of Alexey Borzov
> > Sent: 18 June 2004 10:05
> > To: pgsql-www(at)postgresql(dot)org
> > Subject: [pgsql-www] What now?
> >
> > Greetings.
> >
> > Well, I've done the part of the work I've volunteered for.
> > The "next-generation" postgresql.org mostly works. It does
> > have its rough edges, of course, but this means that bugfixes
> > are needed, not major new features.
>
> That's great - thanks Alexey :-)
>
> > What's needed now is
> > 1) Redesign
>
> OK, I believe Gavin was working on that - it that still the case?
>
> > 2) Content changes
>
> Very little static content has probably changed (though it should still
> be reviewed) - did you copy all the original content? Also, do you have
> a script to migrate the latest versions of the db backed stuff.
>
> > 3) Plan for website migration
>
> Yes. Perhaps the biggest problem here will be the search engine which
> will need to completely reindex the new site. Any gotchas there John, or
> is that just a case of zapping the old URLs and re-crawling?
>

For static content, I suggest bzip2 all of it and I set up a local
mirror which I can crawl (configured as www.postgresql.org) so the
search engine thinks it's crawling the real thing.

I'll crawl to a new database not to upset the old and we can then switch
over at the same time. (I assume you get all of it ready at a new
location, and then kindof like flick a switch?)

> We will also need to update the search template.
>

Any thoughts on using XSL/XML for the search engine templates?
Seperating content from layout is a good thing me thinks.

btw, http://search.oztralis.com.au/test.php?q=weekly&cs=utf-8 is made
with xml/xsl, you can see the

xsl here: http://search.oztralis.com.au/xsl/en.xsl
xml here: http://search.oztralis.com.au/cgi-bin/pg.cgi?q=weekly&cs=utf-8

It uses php for some pre/post processing of the XML required to make it
valid XML, (until I figure out how to use libxml2 to WRITE xml
documents).

> Regards, Dave.

... John