htdocs and gettext

[Josh Sled]

On Mon, 2006-01-23 at 16:33 +0000, Neil Williams wrote:
> OK. I've got gettext working with PHP to translate a single website using as 
> many PO files as we can create.

Awesome.

> It means yet more restructuring of the htdocs and running some scripts to 
> create and update the PO files, much as we do with 'make pot' in trunk.
> 
> I think svn should simply be a copy of the final website, including binary 
> translation .mo files in real locations. I'll create some bash scripts to 
> site in htdocs/ to help create, update and merge the translations.

If we're going to "bake" the site via some script "compilation" step,
then can we get away from using PHP entirely?  :)


> I'll have to restructure the top level directories as well because we don't 
> need these locale directories (the LC_MESSAGES ones) exposed via apache so it 
> will mean adjusting some Apache settings to map the root directory of the 
> website to a directory *beneath* htdocs. e.g. where the virtual host maps a 
> DocumentRoot of htdocs, it will need to be modified to map htdocs/www

Also, does it then make sense to structure the files so that we can
configure Apache can do language content-negotiation?
<http://httpd.apache.org/docs/2.0/content-negotiation.html>  It would
basically mean a different structure; one like:

 htdocs/www/index.html.en
 htdocs/www/index.html.de
 htdocs/www/index.html.[...]
 htdocs/www/features.html.{en,de,...}


> To protect the .svn directories below www/, this snippet should be added to 
> the virtual host config:
>         <Directory /opt/svn/htdocs/www/*/.svn>
>                 Order Deny,Allow
>                 deny from all
>         </Directory>

I suppose this, or maybe using `svn export` so the .svn files aren't
even created?

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